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Tag Archives: real estate investing
New for 2012: Real Estate Investment Analysis, Version 16
Thirty years of development time, and of listening carefully to what to our customers want. All this comes together now in the latest version of our most popular and powerful software app for real estate investors: Real Estate Investment Analysis, … Continue reading
Frank Gallinelli to Speak at BiggerPockets Real Estate Investing Summit and Expo, March 23-24, 2012
BiggerPockets — an 85,000-member community of real estate investors — is having its first Real Estate Investing Summit in Denver, March 2012, and has invited Frank Gallinelli as a featured speaker. Frank is the founder of RealData Software and the … Continue reading
For Real Estate Investors: A Lesson in Clarity
Recently, I was conducting the last class in my course on real estate investment analysis that I teach in Columbia’s MSRED program. I had assigned my 55 students a series of case studies (much like those in my book, Mastering Real Estate Investment) and told them to build financial pro forms and discuss the reasoning behind their analyses. After reading and commenting all those analyses, I felt there was one overarching theme on which I wanted to focus my final remarks to the troops: The theme was “clarity.” Continue reading
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The Flavor of the Month: Apartment Investing
It comes as no surprise to those of us who are a bit long in the tooth: The recent economic environment has been bad for almost everything, but it’s good for multi-family investment property. When credit flows freely, almost anyone … Continue reading
New Mac-Compatible Releases of RealData Software
We’ve supported the Macintosh with Excel-based products since the Mac first came out in 1984. (In fact, way back then we received an award as one of “100 Most Important Companies on the Macintosh.”) But a few years ago, Microsoft … Continue reading
MIRR — How It Works
From our experience, it appears that Internal Rate of Return (IRR) is the metric of choice for many, if not most, real estate investors. However, you may be aware that there are a few issues with IRR that can cause you some vexation. That’s where MIRR comes in. Continue reading
Real estate finance and investment education
A number of colleges and universities have been using my books as well as my company’s Real Estate Investment Analysis software for instructional purposes in their classes on real estate finance and investment (as have I at Columbia). The “Express … Continue reading
Five More Rules of Thumb for Real Estate Investors
In a previous article – Six Rules of Thumb for Every Real Estate Investor – I offered some guidance that might reasonably be held dear by every income-property investor. Woe to him or to her who doesn’t take a property’s vital … Continue reading
