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What is cost approach?

A valuation method asking what it would cost to build the property from scratch today. Useful for development analysis and as a reasonableness check on newer or special-purpose properties.

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.