Profitability and returns for property developers and project development projects

Methods and procedures for calculating profitability and return on investment

This training is held in German.
Are you planning a property development project? Or do you have your sights set on a specific project development? In this training , you will learn various methods and procedures for analyzing and calculating the profitability and return on investment of your project. You will be able to assess the economic performance of a property development or project development project and gain confidence in your decision. This training is primarily aimed at junior staff and young specialists and managers with basic experience of calculation programs.

Contents

Further training according to MaBV

Project approach - basis for calculating the project development costs

  • Important terminology, location/risk factors of the property, sensible project development procedures and their calculations, parties involved in project development, objectives of project development.
  • Significance and impact of the underlying standards: HOAI, DIN 276/ 277 and gif MF-G.

Profitability calculation for privately financed housing

  • Basic assumptions regarding land, building and rental prices.
  • Calculation method based on II. BV.
  • Example of a WiBeRe with publicly subsidized housing construction

Property developer calculation

  • Procedure and calculation method.
  • Necessary assumptions for the presentation of the property development measure.
  • Interpretation of the results.
  • Derivation of a target-adequate approach, resulting measures, e.g. changes to the land purchase price, changes to the target or user group due to changes in the calculation of the measures.

Developer invoice

  • Calculation of construction costs based on DIN 276
  • Income calculation of future rental payments 
  • Creation of a scenario matrix to derive the sensitivity of the developer trading profit

Project development calculation - securing the success of the project

  • Residual value method: Calculation of the maximum payable property purchase price.
  • Calculation of the achievable market rent, taking into account the market environment.

Recognizing and exploiting optimization potential

  • Cost-side optimization options with regard to plot size and use of the plot, variant diversity/restrictions in building construction/equipment, exploitation of market cycles.
  • Revenue-side optimization opportunities by structuring the construction/rental or usage contracts.

Effects of different property/financing situations on your project development

  • Effects of the land purchase price, the current building/construction prices and the sustainably achievable rents.
  • Effects on the holding period of the properties as a portfolio holder or reseller.
  • Effects of location/location developments.
  • Effects of changing user/tenant requirements on real estate.

Learning environment

In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this qualification measure after you have registered.

Your benefit

  • You can make a well-founded assessment of the economic performance of future project development.
  • They know all the relevant approaches for assessing the profitability/return on investment of construction measures.
  • With the help of the various calculation methods, you can clearly see which conditions must be met in order to successfully complete a property development project with the necessary return.
  • You gain additional certainty in your decision.

Please bring your own laptop with mouse, Excel and pdf-reader.

You are welcome to bring your own tables and small case studies that we can work on during the training .

Methods

First trainer, then active training using own examples and cases, discussion and exchange of experience, working aids are provided.

Recommended for

For participants with basic prior knowledge: private and commercially oriented property developers and project developers who develop real estate and hold it in their own portfolio; investors who act with sales intentions and corresponding return expectations. Employees of property developers or project developers. Employees from banks, insurance companies, housing associations/cooperatives, architects, planners. Basic knowledge of Excel is an advantage.

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Attendees comments

"Practical examples using Excel spreadsheets, including practice opportunities for course participants; an accompanying script and a lecturer who presents the content in an understandable way and responds to course participants at all times. The training offers added value for day-to-day work and provides in-depth specialist knowledge."

Keno Fritz
Participant Live-Online-Training, Alìtus Development GmbH

"The on-site support was excellent and the speaker conveyed the important content well. She responded well to the participants ' questions and took their respective levels of knowledge into account."

Martin Pürstinger
Live online training participants

"From experts for experts - all participants are active in the relevant fields, so that the projects could be processed quickly with very good guidance. In addition: integration of various practical cases; exchange of experience and response to individual inquiries by the instructor; provision of various (flexible) calculation tools."

Anja Becker
Participant in live online training, Berliner Stadtgüter GmbH

"I liked the opportunity to try things out and work on them myself."

Friedrich
Live online training participants, Hoffnungsträger Stiftung

"The topics and their individual scope were coordinated with the participants according to the needs and discussions arising from the tasks in order to exchange ideas with others."

Paula Palumbo
Art-Invest Real Estate Funds

Seminar evaluation for "Profitability and return on investment for property developers and project development projects"

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