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Investment Decision, NPV, IRR & MIRR

Evaluates a single property acquisition on unlevered and levered NPV and IRR, equity multiple, cash-on-cash, and MIRR. Inputs cover purchase price, Year 1 NOI and growth, reserves, hold period, exit cap rate, selling costs, loan terms, and the required returns.

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Investment Decision, NPV, IRR & MIRR

Property & exit

Purchase price
Year 1 NOI
NOI growth / year
Year 1 reserves
Reserve escalation / year
Hold period
Exit cap rate
Selling costs

Financing & hurdles

Loan-to-value
Interest rate
Amortization
Unlevered required return
Levered required return
Reinvestment rate (MIRR)

Unlevered (property level)

Investment value (PV at required return)

$29,489,486

Unlevered NPV (value − price)

−$510,514

Unlevered IRR

7.09%

vs 7.50% hurdle

Net reversion

$32,600,803

fwd NOI ÷ 5.75% − costs

Levered (equity), year by year

Y1CFBDS $1,584,000DS −$1,295,029CFADS $288,9712.4%
Y2CFBDS $1,632,180DS −$1,295,029CFADS $337,1512.8%
Y3CFBDS $1,681,819DS −$1,295,029CFADS $386,7893.2%
Y4CFBDS $1,732,960DS −$1,295,029CFADS $437,9313.6%
Y5CFBDS $1,785,649DS −$1,295,029CFADS $490,6204.1%
SaleNet $32,600,803Repay −$16,749,784Equity $15,851,019

Levered IRR

8.57%

vs 9.00% hurdle

Equity multiple

1.48x

on $12,000,000

MIRR

8.41%

reinvest @ 5.0%

Levered NPV

−$221,258

at 9.00%

Mortgage constant

7.19%

Year 1 DSCR

1.27x

Debt yield

9.2%

Leverage lifts the IRR from 7.09% to 8.57%, positive leverage. Borrowing concentrates results onto a smaller equity base; it cannot turn an over-priced acquisition into a strong investment.

Learn the concept

This calculator comes from the free Real Estate Finance course, where the concept is taught with readings, worked examples, and practice questions.

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Built by Devon Coombs, CPA, MBA, Teaching Professor of Finance at Santa Clara University.