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COMPUTING IRR: Do you combine purchase cost 1st year's NOI or separate them?

kidirish6

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So I have been all over these boards and other websites and can't seem to find the right answer to this question. I am doing real estate valuations with the standard 10 year forecasting model. My question arises in trying to figure out the IRR and whether I combine the first year's revenue stream (the negative purchase cost with the positive first year's NOI) or separate the negative purchase cost into "Year 0"? So let's assume I bought the property in February 2011 for 1,000,000. I will sell it in year 10 for $1,200,000. That first year (2011) after I bought it, i had an NOI of $40k. Then in year 2 (2012), I earned $51k, in year 3 (2013), I earned $52k, and so on as follows:

Purchase Price: $1,000,000 and Sales Price (Yr 10): $1,200,000


Year 1 NOI: $40k

Year 2 NOI: $51k

Year 3 NOI: $52k

Year 4 NOI: $53k

....

Year 10 NOI: $59k + $1,200,000


so does my IRR equation in excel look like this:


1) ($1,000,000.00)

2) $40,000.00

3) $51,000.00

4) $52,000.00

5) $53,000.00

6) $54,000.00

7) $55,000.00

8) $56,000.00

9) $57,000.00

10) $58,000.00

11) $1,259,000.00

And therefore run: IRR(1:11) (where the first input is technically "year 0")


Or does it look like this:

1) $(960,000.00)

2) $51,000.00

3) $52,000.00

4) $53,000.00

5) $54,000.00

6) $55,000.00

7) $56,000.00

8) $57,000.00

9) $58,000.00

10) $1,259,000.00


And therefore run: IRR(1:10) (where I've combined the purchase price and the NOI for the first year)


Any help would be appreciated because as you can see, you get two different answers (for these particular numbers, if you run it where you separate out the Purchase cost into Year 0 (and therefeore have 11 inputs) as I did in the first example above, you get an IRR of 6.73%. If you combine the Purchase cost and first year's NOI (and therefore have 10 inputs) like the 2nd example, you get an IRR of 7.70%.
 
you should not include $40K. In excel, your investment $1 mil is set at time zero. that's Feb 2011. Your first receipt of $40K is assumed to be Feb 2012 and so forth. so the end cash receipt is assumed to be Feb 2021.


But you need to get the timing right. Is your first and subsequent cash inflow from the start of a period, or end of a period. That we can't answer for you. I can only tell you how Excel works.
 
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