This week we introduce version 18 of Real Estate Investment Analysis, Professional Edition. It is available immediately for purchase, either for 30-day licenses or time-unlimited licenses. We offer upgrade paths for those who have been with us through previous releases. Currently, this version is available for Windows only.
What is New?
- Fiscal Year Option – Sometimes a perfectly obvious and useful feature is overlooked. In the past year, a number of users suddenly started asking about the option to display data with fiscal year headings — i.e., Year 1, Year 2, etc. — rather than with calendar years. Even RealData’s founder, Frank Gallinelli, insisted on this new feature when he realized his grad students could follow a presentation more easily this way! Now you can have this by ticking a single checkbox in the General settings to make this change throughout the program.
- Sale-Year Cap Rate: Choose Year-by-Year – Nothing lasts forever, not even market cap rates. You might want to test scenarios where the so-called “terminal cap rate” — the rate you expect to be in play in the future — rises or falls over time. Now for every potential resale year, you can elect to use a different cap rate if you like.
- Syndication Fees – Users of our Partnership Analysis module have been asking for the ability to handle syndication fees, and of course we listened. Account for acquisition or disposition fees, as well as ongoing asset management fees.
- New Report Templates for Graphic and Property Narrative – You now have two free-form pages where you can create your own report pages. One is designed to accommodate a graphic. It could be a property photo, floor plan, map — any image file. The other is a property narrative, where you can use as much or as little of two text columns to tell this property’s story. You can style the text, as well as create paragraphs and headings.
Globally adjust view +10% +25% etc. – Perhaps your desktop has one screen resolution and your laptop something totally different. And maybe neither of them looks good in the default view when you open the program. In the past you had to change the “zoom” setting for each worksheet individually, but we’ve added a function that allows you to apply a global view setting across all the sheets. So whether you want big type or small, the solution is a click away.- Even more – Drag and drop the order of reports when printing; get help from improved and expanded documentation, cell notes, and knowledgebase
Globally adjust view +10% +25% etc. – Perhaps your desktop has one screen resolution and your laptop something totally different. And maybe neither of them looks good in the default view when you open the program. In the past you had to change the “zoom” setting for each worksheet individually, but we’ve added a function that allows you to apply a global view setting across all the sheets. So whether you want big type or small, the solution is a click away.