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By AZ Advisory Team, February 1, 2010 12:36 pm

Continued…

Annual Debt Service (ADS)

The ADS is the total of loan payments for the year. The annual debt service includes the principal and interest portion of the payment for all twelve months.

Cash Flow Before Taxes (CFBT)

Cash Flow Before Taxes is the amount of money realized by the investor for the year, whether positive or negative, before income taxes are computed.

Taxes (T)

This is simply the taxes you pay in connection to your property.

Net Income (NI)

This is your Net Income for the year after paying taxes. This is the amount of money realized after the payment of taxes.

Investment Cost (IC)

Investment Cost is the total amount of money you released to purchase that property including the professional fees and other expenses associated with buying that commercial investment property.

Return on Investment

When your Net Income added yearly reaches to a point that it surpasses your Investment Cost, then you have reached a Return on Investment.

Alex Zylberglait provides commercial real estate investment advisory as well as research, estate planning, asset allocation, valuation, financing, special assets services, transaction advisory and commercial property acquisition and disposition services.

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By AZ Advisory Team, January 28, 2010 10:56 am

Vacancy and Collection Losses (V/C)

Vacancy is the measurement of time, expressed in percentage of the GPI, that you would expect the property to not have a tenant. Every property will have periods of vacancy due to change-over in tenants plus market cycles that make it harder to find tenants.

Collection losses, much like vacancy in that no income is being collected, is when non-paying tenants are in the property and either need to be motivated or evicted. This too is expressed as a percentage figure of GPI.

The key to Vacancy and Collection Losses is that you can compare different types of properties in different market cycles. Perhaps an office in the higher price range will have longer occupying tenants, thus a lower vacancy, whereas a property in a student area can be expected to turn nearly every year, resulting in a higher vacancy. Using the correct figures for vacancy allows us to compare these two properties and determine which one is the better buy.

Alex Zylberglait provides commercial real estate investment advisory as well as research, estate planning, asset allocation, valuation, financing, special assets services, transaction advisory and commercial property acquisition and disposition services.

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By AZ Advisory Team, January 27, 2010 10:22 am

As a commercial real estate investment advisor, I evaluate every property’s potential return on investment for my clients.  I have found out that some people do not know where to start. Location, accessibility, demographics are some important factors but these are not enough.  Qualitative characteristics of a property seem to play a major role but let us remember to look at the numbers to have a good picture of what we are going to invest in.

There is an equation I call the Commerial Real Estate Stack.  This is a basic of measurement model which allows an investor to look at an investment property and convert it to a mathematical model so that it can be compared with other investment options.

This mathematical equation will allow the investor to determine the Net Operating Income (NOI) of a property. Here are key terms:

Gross Potential Income (GPI)

The Gross Potential Income of a commercial property is the best case scenario of what it can generate in rent. If a property can charge $2,000 per month, then the GPI would be $2,000 x 12 = $24,000 per year.

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Alex Zylberglait provides commercial real estate investment advisory as well as research, estate planning, asset allocation, valuation, financing, special assets services, transaction advisory and commercial property acquisition and disposition services.