CRE WORD OF THE WEEK

Good morning, its Word of the Week Wednesday! Let’s take a look at ingress and egress. These two words refer to the same issue of rights. Ingress refers to the right to enter onto a property, while egress refers to the right to exit a property. The rights to enter or exit the property may…

Good morning, its Word of the Week Wednesday again! Let’s look at short sale. A short sale occurs when the sale price of a property is less than the amount owed to the lender and when the lender accepts this amount as full payment for the asset. Those funds not repaid to the lender can…

Good morning, welcome back to Word or the Week Wednesday! Let’s look at cash on cash return. Cash on cash return is a measure of the net annual return, minus debt service, the investor made on a property in relation to the amount of cash or equity applied to the purchase.

Morning everyone! It’s Word of the Week Wednesday again! Let’s look at floor area ratio. Floor area ratio, or FAR, is the connection between the total square footage of a building and the total square footage of the land parcel on which the building is located.

It’s Word of the Week Wednesday! We’ve got another cool phrase from the commercial real estate business. Let’s take a look at capitalization rate, also known as cap rate. The cap rate is the rate of return that investors receive on an income producing property. The cap rate is calculated as the ratio between the…