Simulates the real-world training experience of an analyst at a real estate development firm

NEW YORK, NY, USA, January 17, 2017 /EINPresswire.com/ -- CFI, a global leader in online corporate finance training, today announced the launch of its new course, Real Estate Financial Modeling. CFI’s real estate course is designed to simulate the experience of being an analyst at a real estate development firm, a mortgage lender, or an appraiser with participants building a dynamic financial model in Excel from scratch.

"CFI was founded to help anyone in the world advance their career through access to high quality, real-life corporate finance training online. Our courses give students and professionals the practical skills and tools they need to perform world class financial analysis," said Tim Vipond, CEO of the Corporate Finance Institute. "Given the feedback we’ve received from our thousands of students we heard loud and clear the demand for more industry-specific financial modeling courses, such as real estate development."

About the Real Estate Financial Modeling Course
Learn to build a dynamic real estate financial model in Excel and evaluate the investment return profile of a development project. In this course, you will learn step-by-step how to build a dynamic a financial model that incorporates sensitivity analysis of development costs, sales prices, and other aspects of the project.

Highlights include:
• Calculate cap rate and net operating income (NOI) for a property
• Build an interactive financial model to assess a project’s financial viability
• Understand how project financing (both debt and equity) flow in and out depending on stage of development
• Design and structure of an Excel-based project finance model
• Model free cash flows for a real estate development project
• Build in “triggers” and sensitivities to understand a project’s exposure to key drivers
• Build in ownership and financial structures (debt & equity)
• Calculate internal rate of return (IRR), return on sales, return on cost
• Produce a development pro forma
• Publish a one-page investment summary memo
• Includes both blank and completed financial models to download
• Includes certificate of completion

Who should take this course
This real estate development financial modeling course is designed for anyone who is seeking to develop intermediate to advanced financial modeling skills and become an expert at financial modeling for real estate development. It’s aimed at real estate development professionals, lending / banking analysts, surveyors, and anyone interested in mastering the art of building a real estate development models from scratch.


About CFI
The Corporate Finance Institute (CFI) is a global online financial training firm, specializing in financial modeling, business valuation, and advanced financial analysis for corporate finance careers. CFI courses pick up where business school leaves off to teach you on-the-job aspects of corporate finance, investment banking, corporate development, FP&A, treasury, and accounting. CFI courses have trained thousands of students and professionals at many of the top universities, institutions and corporations in the world.

Tim Vipond
Corporate Finance Institute
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