Real Estate Argus Modeling

Introduction to real estate modeling using ARGUS for building models of acquisition transactions for office and retail mall properties.

offering recorded1 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.70 GPA, 81.4% A/AB (n=86 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.40 GPA, 61.7% A/AB (n=162 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.74 GPA, 82.9% A/AB (n=70 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Demonstrate key components required to model a real estate transaction including, program summary, sources and uses of funds, income statement, debt waterfall, and reporting.

  • Demonstrate key calculations in ARGUS that are used in the real estate profession including effective gross income, net operating income, tenant improvements, present value, levered and unlevered returns and internal rate of return.

  • Model acquisition transactions for office and mall.

  • Perform management reporting and sensitivity analysis on present value and internal rate of return for various leasing scenarios.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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REAL EST 410, 710, or concurrent enrollment

REALEST 412 used by

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Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 002Classroom Instruction0 / 550
LEC 003Classroom Instruction0 / 550

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Student experience

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.70 GPA, 81.4% A/AB (n=86 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.40 GPA, 61.7% A/AB (n=162 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.74 GPA, 82.9% A/AB (n=70 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Acquisition transactions for office and retail mall properties
  • Sensitivity analysis on model inputs
  • Office and Retail real estate terminology

Skills

  • Input assumptions, make decisions using reports, perform sensitivity analysis on model inputs, and explain Office and Retail real estate terminology.
  • Model real estate transactions including program summary, sources and uses of funds, income statement, debt waterfall, and reporting.
  • Calculate effective gross income, net operating income, tenant improvements, present value, levered/unlevered returns, and internal rate of return in ARGUS.

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UW–Madison

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REALEST 412 · Spring 2027

Real Estate ARGUS Modeling

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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