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Already logged a support case? Manage your support case here. Frequently asked questions. Improve your real estate cash flow analysis, forecasting and valuation processes. Real estate revenue is sourced primarily from tenants, but leasing terms and market conditions can fluctuate over time, affecting your ability to create an accurate cash flow model.

The lack of clarity into the future and the absence of comparable transactions has made valuing a commercial building harder than ever. With ARGUS Enterprise, you will be able to build detailed cash flow forecasts, stress test market and leasing assumptions, create comprehensive commercial property valuations using the discounted cash flow analysis and other global valuation methods.

Understand the impact of changes on your property and portfolio KPIs. While change has always been a constant factor, property owners now operate in an environment that is volatile, complex and ambiguous.

Having your data live across multiple spreadsheets is dangerous and inefficient, especially when you want to report on the health of your properties. You can also create several scenarios to test the effect of market stress and get a clearer picture of how your commercial real estate will perform in different market conditions. Assess acquisition deals quickly and accurately to maximise investor returns. When looking to acquire commercial real estate as an investment, assessing revenue and capital return is critical to determine whether a potential property meets your investment criteria.

With ARGUS Enterprise, you will be able to build a robust returns model, taking in an array of property facts and market assumptions to present a holistic view of each deal in your investment acquisition pipeline.

Easily import data from the seller, overlay in-house assumptions, run scenarios to determine the best and worst case, and produce detailed acquisition report for the investment committee. Streamline your asset budgeting and forecasting workflow.

Trying to build an efficient budgeting workflow across your team can be a difficult challenge. This process often involves collecting non-standardised data, across multiple stakeholders, with rounds of reporting and validation, often resulting in the budgeting process lasting anywhere between six to nine months.

With ARGUS Enterprise, you will be able to collect real-time data by connecting your chart of accounts and easily compare monthly budget against actuals to measure performances and identify variances to plans. From there, you can run scenario modelling to find the best-case scenario, reforecast your budget and export reports for approval. Easily connect with your existing property management and accounting systems.

With most real estate professionals still using several solutions to manage their commercial real estate, being able to keep a direct connection with your existing workflows is paramount. With ARGUS Enterprise, you can easily connect and import your data from existing spreadsheets and other property management and accounting systems. From there, you will be able to leverage the powerful ARGUS calculation engine to run cash flow analysis, forecasting, portfolio analysis and reporting.

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Years developing CRE software. All Rights Reserved. Built for the property development industry, ARGUS EstateMaster 'Development Feasibility' allows you to forecast the feasibility of a project using a discounted cash flow analysis. Easily appraise property development opportunities, calculate residual land values, run sensitivity analysis, and determine the highest and best use of a site. ARGUS EstateMaster provides you with an industry-recognised framework using a familiar spreadsheet interface to build your feasibility.

Using one input sheet, you can enter all your revenue and cost information such as land purchase price, professional costs, construction costs, sales revenue and much more. Successful development is all about balancing risks and returns.

To achieve the maximum potential and best possible return for your development project, conducting a feasibility study is the key to success. It will give you confidence in your decisions and determine whether the development project will be a financial success or not. Building robust feasibility models to report back to investors and stakeholders can often be difficult and time-consuming. With ARGUS EstateMaster, you can easily overcome these three common challenges property developers face and start building feasibility studies with confidence.

Identify the best development opportunities by forecasting the financial viability and risk profile of your next project. Our clients include.

Download the sample report pack to view more than industry-standard reports including a financial summary of project returns, project cash flow, forecast variation, profit and loss statements and many more. Summary of project returns. Cash flow outputs with cost codes. Become a forward looking company like Equity Industrial partners.

Test the financial viability of your next development project. The days of manually building one-off feasibility models and comparative scenarios are long gone.

With ARGUS Developer, you can build and leverage feasibility templates, set up a project timescale with configurable stages to suit your project, link phases and model phase dependencies, test scenarios for proposed developments, and bring transparency to risks. Build solid business cases to secure project financing. The return on any investment must outweigh the risk associated with it.

Undertaking property development is no different as investors and financial lenders always look for the best option to deliver a successful financial outcome. With ARGUS Developer, you can quickly model debt and equity to automatically view your cash flows across your project, create unlimited numbers of finance structures across multi-stage projects, and model complex debt and profit distributions, including waterfalls.

Understand the implication of changes to critical project variables. With certainty becoming one of the rarest commodities in the current environment, developers are constantly under immense pressure to deliver their projects on time and budget during turbulent property cycles.

With ARGUS Developer, you can build several development scenarios to find the highest and best use, stress test variables at once to understand the impact on returns, and identify risks and manage projects using tools specifically designed for sensitivity testing. Manage project costs and ongoing financial risks.

As the invoices start to be processed, developers must remain vigilant and review actual costs every month. Understanding how much has been spent compared to how much is left to spend is an essential element of cost control. You can also simplify workflows with your finance and development team to import actuals and refresh forecasts to get an accurate view of your project cash flow. Keep stakeholders and investors informed with transparent reporting. With ARGUS Developer, you can generate more than 50 built-in reports to assess how your individual or group projects are performing, consolidate KPI reporting and dashboards across your entire portfolio and give your investors greater transparency on the progress of your projects.

Built for the property development industry, ARGUS Developer is the trusted software solution to manage every stage of your real estate development lifecycle with confidence. Development feasibility and timescales The days of manually building one-off feasibility models and comparative scenarios are long gone.

Developers need an easier way to create a pro forma assessment to achieve their projects' best possible scenario. Project financing structures The return on any investment must outweigh the risk associated with it. Scenario analysis and forecasting With certainty becoming one of the rarest commodities in the current environment, developers are constantly under immense pressure to deliver their projects on time and budget during turbulent property cycles.