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What is build-up approach?

Constructing a real estate discount rate by starting from a risk-free rate and adding premiums for real estate risk, illiquidity, property-specific risk, lease risk, development risk, and capital-market exposure.

Where you will use it: this term comes up in the Real Estate Finance course, and the full course glossary collects every term in one place.

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From the free Real Estate Finance course by Devon Coombs, CPA, MBA.