New Article: NPV, IRR, MIRR, CpA – Stirring the Alphabet Soup of Real Estate Investment

There's nothing better than a nice bucketful of acronyms to scare off the uninitiated. Real estate investing, like any worthwhile enterprise, has its share -- maybe more than its share -- of initials. To invest successfully, you need to understand the how, why and when of these key real estate investment metrics, so in this two-part article I try to shed some light on these terms. I explore what they mean and when you might use them, and alert you to their pitfalls.

In the first installment I talk about Discounted Cash Flow, Net Present Value, Profitability Index and Internal Rate of Return. In Part 2, coming soon, I'll discuss some problems with IRR and how these might be dealt with using Modified IRR and Capital Accumulation Comparison. Go to our Learn page now to read Part 1.

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