Our Real Estate Income Analysis software enables real estate professionals to analyze and value income producing real estate, applying advanced mathematical techniques. It calculates the value, based upon the yield requirements and projections of the analyst. Financing, closing costs, selling expenses, income growth and property appreciation are among the many factors considered. Holding periods can range between 1 and 60 years. Reports can be printed, pasted or saved to an Excel spreadsheet, PDF file, or RTF file. They can be merged into a word processing document.

Extract yield rates, determine the property's value, or calculate the IRR, based upon different assumptions. Analyst builds a cap rate, using the Mortgage Equity Technique. It also calculates the value of the cash flows using the Discounted Cash Flow method. Sensitivity Analysis is easy and informative.

Whether you need to develop a capitalization rate, do a basic discounted cash flow analysis, or perform a complicated lease analysis, Investment Analyst will help you do it quickly, professionally, and accurately. Whether it is an apartment building, office building, hotel or strip shopping center, Analyst will produce results that you can trust.

Our clients have again and again praised Investment Analyst and its predecessor Caprate Calculator for ease of use, comprehensiveness and quality.  These characteristics did not come about by accident.  Each facet of our software has been honed, refined and polished over many years.

Three Versions of Investment Analyst

Investment Analyst is offered in three versions because each user has different analysis needs. Each is the latest generation. We invite you to review the features of each version and choose the one that is best for you. Learn more about each version

Why Choose Investment Analyst?

Many things should be considered before you purchase Income Analysis software. You probably have already spent hours searching, gathering information, and comparing products. To see what we think are the most important considerations, click here.

Investment Analyst has been around since 1987 (longer than any competitive product) and we make Analyst better each year. Do not be misled by the high prices and high maintenance fees of other income analysis software. Price and quality are not always synonymous.

Investment Analyst and quality are synonymous. Our products are written from "scratch" and not dependent upon spreadsheets like Excel that are designed by part-time "experts." Analyst has all of the "bells and whistles," Analyst is the easiest to use, and Analyst produces the best analysis documentation.

But we price our products so that small firms, individuals, and large institutions all can fit Analyst into their budgets.

Whether you are a large financial institution that needs an income analysis tool every day, a small appraisal firm that only does a few commercial properties each year, an investor who need to evaluate a potential investment, or a real estate broker who needs to prepare a comprehensive presentation, you can trust Investment Analyst.

Our clients have been trusting Analyst for 20 years. In the span of one week recently we heard from three clients (unsolicited). The wife of a retiring appraiser wrote us and said "I would like to thank you for your help over the years with Investment Analyst. John thinks that you are 'God' with this software." Another client called that same week for no particular reason except to thank us for offering such a "professional" product. Yet a third client who had just purchased Analyst (with some uncertainty because he was a novice with computers) wrote us to say "this software is WONDERFUL !!!!"

Who Uses Investment Analyst

Today, our products are used by clients in all fifty states and several foreign countries. Members of all major real estate appraisal organizations use Analyst software. So do assessors, review appraisers, government agencies (federal, state and local), financial institutions, CPAs, insurance companies, real estate agents, developers, investors and property owners.

The Analyst software is flexibly designed to accommodate any income producing property, including;

• Apartment buildings
• Office buildings
• Shopping centers
• Hotels, motels
• Businesses
• Industrial property
• Special purpose buildings
• Lot developments
• Condo projects

These programs are designed from scratch, in 32 bit native Windows code, to give you the best possible performance and an ease of use not possible with spreadsheets. They are stand-alone programs - not spreadsheet templates or database templates.

Artificial Intelligence is built in. This means that data entry is checked for consistency and mathematical calculations are checked for accuracy - as only can be done by experienced software engineers working in conjunction with valuation experts to design and implement a stand-alone application. Our software is smart. Not only does it check your numbers, but it knows how to print them to make the most attractive presentation. Whether your holding period is 7 years or 30 years, our software will make it look right. As we say in our logo, "The Expert is in the Software."


Theory

Our programs use three different methods to calculate value.

• An advanced derivative of the Mortgage Equity Technique that utilizes the theory of the Ellwood Method.
• Internal Rate of Return analysis.
• Present Value analysis using the Discounted Cash Flow method

All three methods are based upon widely accepted mathematical principles that have been used to analyze income producing investments for many years. Our programs give the analyst a level of confidence and understanding that cannot be achieved using a single method.

Our Income Analysis software enables real estate professionals to analyze and value commercial property by applying advanced mathematical techniques.  Whether you need to develop a capitalization rate, do a basic discounted cash flow analysis, or perform a complicated lease analysis, Investment Analyst enables you to do it quickly, professionally, and accurately.

What our clients say about us

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Who Uses our Software
Real Estate Appraisers
Financial Institutions
Real Estate Investors
Property Assessors
Property Owners
Review Appraisers
Real Estate Agents
Developers
CPA's
Investment Counselors
Insurance Companies
Corporations
Pension Funds
REIT's
Business Valuators

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