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Flexibility and Real Estate Valuation under Uncertainty
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Flexibility and Real Estate Valuation under Uncertainty

by David Geltner, Richard de Neufville
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
256 pages
7h 35m
English
Wiley-Blackwell
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3Future Scenarios Matter: We Need to Recognize that Future Projections are Uncertain

Everybody loves the DCF model as a tool for valuing investment assets. And valuation is very important in real estate. But this book is about how flexibility can add value. So now we need to take a step beyond the traditional DCF model presented in the previous chapters. In this chapter, we explicitly introduce uncertainty into the cash flow projections in the DCF pro forma.

We suggest the concept of scenarios to describe uncertainties in real estate. Scenarios refer to the fact that the future may turn out differently than the prior projection. A scenario is one specific sequence of events, of circumstances that we may face. A scenario would describe the sequence of combinations of possibilities (price, vacancy, costs, etc.) in Year 1, Year 2, and so on. Any particular real estate project faces many possible scenarios. The price could go up in the first and second years, or it could go up and ...

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