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Gross Rent Multiplier: How Does it Work?

Patrick Charles
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I'm new to commercial real estate. Can someone explain how the Gross Rent Multiplier works?

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@Patrick Charles 

GRM= Price/ Gross Scheduled Rent.

EX- Price of 10 Unit Apt. Bld is $1MM. Rent per unit is $1,000 which equals $10k/Month or $120k/yr in Gross scheduled Rent. $1mm/$120K= 8.33 GRM

This means that at 100% Occupancy it would take you 8.3 Years to collect $1MM worth of income or another way to look at is it would take 8.3 Years for the property to pay off itself! 

Hope this helps Patrick!

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