Adventures in CRE Audio Series - How to Quickly Evaluate Real Estate Opportunities (Without Opening Excel)

How to Quickly Evaluate Real Estate Opportunities (Without Opening Excel)

09/01/20 • 25 min

We regularly respond to questions from A.CRE and Accelerator members as it relates to analyzing and evaluating real estate investment opportunities. Recently, in an Accelerator forum post a young professional marveled at how certain individuals in his office could look at a deal and within a matter of minutes make an assessment as to whether the deal was worth spending more time on. He asked if we had any insights into how that was possible.

In this episode of the A.CRE Audio Series, Spencer, Michael and Sam discuss back-of-the-envelope analysis. They discuss specific techniques for quickly getting to a decision as to whether dig deeper, or move on from a deal. And they share insights from their personal experience, having collectively underwritten over $30 billion of real estate in their careers.

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Today's Job Market & How To Stand Out In An Interview

The real estate job market has changed dramatically over the past 3-4 months, with the market shifting from one that favored job seekers to one that now favors employers. In light of that shift, we're excited to welcome onto the A.CRE Audio Series one of the foremost experts in real estate careers: Kent Elliott of RETS Associates.

Kent founded the real estate executive search firm, RETS Associates, in 2002. Since that time his firm has placed more than 3,000 real estate candidates spanning 22 U.S. states and across every major real estate discipline and property type. In this episode of the A.CRE Audio Series, we discuss with Kent the current job landscape. We then ask Kent for pointers on how candidates can stand out in the interview (and beyond).

This episode is a good complement to our other discussions on the A.CRE Audio Series with top real estate recruiters. Check out our season two episode with Jeff Wittenberg and our season one episode with Alex Barake.

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Three Keys to LinkedIn Success in CRE

For commercial real estate professionals in 2020, one social media platform is more important than all of the rest. That platform is LinkedIn, and it now serves as a long-form real estate resume, a virtual business card, and for many their online professional persona. So given its importance, we thought we'd spend a few minutes discussing LinkedIn and three keys to LinkedIn success in CRE.

In this episode of the A.CRE Audio Series, we're joined by Tucker Wells, our Head of Training and Careers here at A.CRE. Tucker's background is in real estate executive recruiting, and over the years Tucker has helped hundreds of real estate professionals enhance their personal brand and advanced in their CRE career. In addition to leading Enterprise training and career services for A.CRE, Tucker provides one-on-one career consulting, resume review, and LinkedIn profile review as part of the A.CRE Career Accelerator, an add-on to the A.CRE Accelerator.

A huge thank you to Tucker Wells for sharing his knowledge in this episode with the A.CRE audience!