CRE Underwriting Insights & Resources

Access expert articles, AI-driven analysis, and practical tips to streamline your deal evaluation and close more transactions.

Self-Storage KPIs: The 2025 Dashboard Every Operator Must Track

Discover the top 10 self-storage KPIs for 2025. Learn benchmarks, formulas, and get a free KPI dashboard template to improve NOI and reduce delinquencies.

Structuring Real Estate Deals: What Actually Makes Them Work

Structuring Real Estate Deals that generate consistent returns requires proven frameworks. Cactus reveals the exact strategies top investors use.

The 5-Minute Real Estate Deal Analysis: Your Go/No-Go Guide

Stop wasting hours analyzing bad real estate deals. Our guide to a 5-minute real estate deal analysis shows you how to vet any property—fast. Learn our go/no-go framework now.

Types of Commercial Real Estate Loans (Financing Your Next Deal)

Explore the Types of Commercial Real Estate Loans and compare financing options for your next investment deal.

Understanding Cash Flow, DSCR, and LTV

Commercial real estate success hinges on understanding three critical metrics: Cash Flow, Debt Service Coverage Ratio (DSCR), and Loan-to-Value (LTV). Calculating these metrics traditionally required complex spreadsheets and manual data entry, modern solutions like Cactus now automate these calculations, ensuring accuracy and saving countless hours.

Underwriting Multifamily in a High-Rate World: Practical Stress Tests, Assumptions and Checklists (2025)

Multifamily underwriting in 2025 requires sharper stress tests and updated assumptions. This guide covers rent growth, cap rates, refinance risk, and a practical checklist for today’s high-rate market.

Unlocking Real Estate Profitability: Why we focus on the Return On Equity (ROE)

This article will discuss profitability metrics in real estate, and why Cactus selected the ROE as the primary profitability metric for the portfolio section.

Valuation for Commercial Property: 3 Core Methods & Mistakes

Valuation for Commercial Property using cap rate, DCF, sales comparisons, and lease analysis to avoid costly investment mistakes.

Value Add, Buy & Hold, or New Development: Which Investment Strategy is Right for You?

The difference between a profitable real estate investment and a costly mistake often comes down to one critical factor: choosing the right investment strategy. Our analysis of 1,000+ real estate transactions shows that investors who align their strategy with their resources and goals achieve 40% higher ROI on average.

What is IRR?

Discover how understanding Internal Rate of Return (IRR) can empower you to evaluate investment opportunities with precision, optimize returns, and make confident decisions in self-storage and multifamily ventures

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