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How do you pick and use a Cap Rate?

Thursday, April 18

With over 40 years’ experience in the real estate investment industry, I find that Cap Rate (Capitalization Rate) is perhaps the most misunderstood concept in the business.  Many of the examples and definitions of Cap Rate that I have seen are wrong, although based on the same mathematic formula ...