Frank Gallinelli's RealData Blog

I’m pleased to release a sample lesson from my online video course, “Introduction to Real Estate Investment Analysis.” This comprehensive course delivers more than 40 lessons and case studies based on my writings and on my teaching at the Columbia University grad school.From due diligence to dis...

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​Just starting out in real estate investing? Yep, we've all been there. And while most of my writing is all about hard-core financial analysis of income properties, I thought it would be good to offer a brief ebook discussing some first steps. So here it is: ​5 Keys Steps to Get You Started in Re...

We've been busily at work adding new content to my online video course, "Introduction to Real Estate Investment Analysis." We're up to 40 lessons with the recent addition of a module on real estate partnerships, a lesson on equity multiples, and will soon have a new module on real estate developm...

In a wide-ranging interview, I discuss investing in income-producing real estate: deciding what kind of property you should buy, how to begin the analysis process, understanding the income stream, estimating value or worth, dealing with long-term projections, recognizing common pitfalls, investin...

Unless you make your living by helping people complete their returns, you probably prefer to spend as little time as possible thinking about income taxes. The rules and forms are generally opaque and the process is often stressful. However, there is at least one concept in the U.S. tax system tha...

Expense recoveries (aka reimbursements or pass-throughs) serve as a customary ingredient in leases for non-residential property. In part 1 of this article, I discussed some of the typical ways such an arrangement might play out. The Simple Pass-ThroughIn a single-tenant property the tenant may be...

For quite some time, readers of my book, What Every Real Estate Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow…, have been asking if I would be teaching a course. The answer, finally, is “yes.” I’ve just released an online course with more than 30 video lessons (including case studies), as we...

Can something as simple as the treatment of reserves alter the valuation — or evaluation — of your income-property investment? This is a discussion that comes up every year when I teach real estate investment analysis to my grad students: Where, how, why do you deal with "reserves for replacement...

A strong CoC unarguably provides a good sign that your investment is off on the right foot. Is that the end of the story – or should it be? I think this narrow focus can cause an investor to miss some vital issues. Read my discussion of the issues surrounding the cash-on-cash metric in real estat...