Your company has $100 million in its pension fund. You plan to deploy your $100 million. You call your broker, and she suggests an upcoming office acquisition deal for TLC Tower.

TLC Tower Details:

TLC Tower is and office space with an expected offer price of $183 per square feet (sf). The building has a rentable square footage (rsf) area of 310,000. A bank has already leased 50% of the building at a full-service annual rental rate of $32/rsf for 10 years. The rent will increase by 3% every 2 years. Operating expenses are $17/sf. The market rent for a full service 5-year lease for this building is $35/rsf. Tenant improvements and leasing commission are $18 and 8% respectively. This building is expected to trade at a 9% cap rate based on the forward 12 months' NOI.

Assume that half of the remaining space will be leased after 8 months of purchase at the market rates and the remaining half will be leased at the same rate after 15 months of purchase.

The building required immediate capex of $300,000 and an additional $55,000 annually on deferred capex for 3 years. It has a parking ratio of 3 stalls/1000 sf with a parking rate of $110/month.

Using the information above answer the following:

Assuming a holding period of 5 years after which the building will be sold off, find the unleveraged IRR.

Assuming that the project will be financed through 65% loan of 25 years with 4% interest rate, 1point origination fee and 1 point exit fee on the outstanding loan balance. What is the leveraged IRR?

Based on your analysis and your real estate knowledge, what are the other factors to be evaluated to make the decision to buy (not buy) the building?

Answer rating: 100% (QA)

To calculate the unleveraged IRR we need to calculate the net operating income NOI of the property and then discount it back to the present value using the purchase price of the property Then we can s... View the full answer