These are projects posted by the students of Dr. Gove Allen at Brigham Young University. These students have taken one semester-long course on VBA and generally have had no prior programming experience

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Real Estate Investment Analysis


My workbook consists of several key components of the real estate investment analysis. First, it gathers some relevant data, including some of the key economic indicators like unemployment rates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI), and US employee productivity. These allow the user of the program to get a quick glimpse of the last six months of these numbers to get a feel for what the US economy is looking like. The user can also look up current interest rates for a given geographical area—an indicator of the economy, but also a key component of investment analysis.

Next the program will search for single family homes (my primary interest in the real estate market) using inputs from a user form, pull out relevant data, and organize it so it is easy to compare several properties. After the properties have been found, the user can input investment assumptions into two other forms. These inputs include the investor’s income (to calculate tax info), the type of property, purchase price, forecasted yearly income, forecasted vacancy rates, operation expenses, future sales price, and several other key inputs. The program then runs these through an investment analysis and outputs multiple investment measures, including the NPV and IRR.




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