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Tier 3 — Market & Deal Analysis·Course 07·CIRE Level 2 — Market & Deal Analysis
User Decision Analysis — Lease vs. Own
The most-overlooked skill in CRE: when a business should buy its real estate
The topic most free CRE content skips entirely. Business owners constantly ask: should we lease this space or buy it? The answer is a quantifiable cost-of-occupancy comparison, and a broker who can run it becomes indispensable. This course teaches the full framework.
⏱100 minutes
📚6 lessons
$Free forever
What you'll learn
- Build a lease-vs-own cost-of-occupancy model over a 10-year hold
- Factor in SBA 504 financing advantages for owner-users
- Explain after-tax cash flow differences between leasing and owning
- Advise business-owner clients on the true economics of their space decisions
- Position yourself as a tenant rep or owner-user specialist
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