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What is unlevered discount rate?

The required total return used to discount property-level cash flow before debt service, often built as risk-free rate + real estate risk premium + property-specific adjustment. It should not be used on levered equity cash flows.

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.