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Lender's Title Insurance: Key Role in Loan Security
How lender's title insurance protects lien priority, common exclusions, and key ALTA endorsements for CRE loan security.
Tax Rules for Real Estate Funds: LP vs. Series Fund
Explains tax, reporting, and state filing tradeoffs between LP and series real estate funds to guide fund structuring.
5 Steps to Assess Building Code Compliance Risks
Five-step checklist to spot building code and life-safety risks, estimate remediation costs, and assign actions before closing.
Common Easement Types in CRE Transactions
How common CRE easements (utility, access, drainage, REAs, shared-use, restrictive) affect access, buildability, and underwriting.
Waterfall Distribution Models Explained
Explains how CRE waterfalls allocate cash: return of capital, preferred return, catch-up, promote tiers, and deal vs fund-level effects.
How to Verify Rent Rolls in CRE Due Diligence
Treat every rent roll as unproven until leases, T-12, bank deposits, and occupancy match.
How to Analyze Submarket Dynamics for CRE
Five-step CRE framework to define submarkets, standardize KPIs, read vacancy/absorption/rents, and convert the call into underwriting.
Key Title Search Considerations for CRE
Four-step CRE title search guide: define scope, confirm ownership and liens, align title with ALTA survey, and clear curative items.
Sell or Hold? CRE Decision Frameworks
Practical CRE framework to decide between selling, holding, or refinancing using NPV, taxes, cap-rate sensitivity, and debt timing.
Who We Are: A Primer on The Fractional Analyst
Learn more about hiring a fractional analyst
IRS Forms for Non-U.S. Real Estate Sellers
Explains the 7 FIRPTA-related IRS forms, timing to reduce 15% withholding, ITIN steps, and how to claim refunds after sale.
Cross-Border Real Estate: Transfer Pricing Basics
Price related-party real estate like unrelated parties: align contracts, functions, and risks to avoid Section 482 adjustments and steep penalties.
Real Estate APIs: 7 Features to Look For
A reliable real estate API must combine coverage, daily freshness, geospatial search, AVMs, scale, governance, and workflow fit.
Hurdle Rate Tiers in Real Estate Waterfalls
Waterfall hurdle tiers decide who gets paid first and how IRR vs MOIC shifts profits between LPs and GPs.
Custom AI Models for CRE: Key Features
Seven must-have checks—data, asset-level forecasts, scenario testing, validation, workflow integration, and governance—for auditable CRE AI models.
Best Practices for Data Integration in CRE Reports
Map sources, standardize KPIs, use master IDs, and automate ETL to produce reliable, audit-ready CRE investor reports.
How ALTA Surveys Enhance CRE Due Diligence
An ALTA survey turns boundary, access, and easement uncertainty into priced, insurable CRE deal terms.
Your LPs Are Going to Ask Anyway. Answer It in the Report.
Ten questions LPs ask every quarter, how much reporting each investor base actually wants, and what it takes to close a reporting cycle on time.
Steps to Build Scenario Models for CRE Trends
Define one decision, pick key drivers, and run base/upside/downside/stress scenarios to test NOI, DSCR, IRR, and exit value.
How Crowdfunding Works for Commercial Real Estate
CRE crowdfunding opens access to commercial deals but demands scrutiny of sponsor, capital stack, hold period, and legal terms.