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lease sensitivity analysis

How does CAM sensitivity change a lease ranking?

How does CAM sensitivity change a lease ranking?

Uncapped extras can erase a cheap net rent. Move CAM up and down before you lock the rank.

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Questions this page also answers

What is the short answer?

Uncapped extras can erase a cheap net rent. Move CAM up and down before you lock the rank.

What should you change first?

Change this page's input and hold the rate still.

What must stay visible?

The rate, the extras, and the year the credit lands.

What should you open next?

Open How do CAM caps change occupancy-cost risk and keep the same stack.

Plain-language definition

Uncapped extras can erase a cheap net rent. Move CAM up and down before you lock the rank.

Start with cash you can date. Leave slogans off the sheet.

Add extras the tenant still pays.

Keep one visible rate so a later reader can check the work.

Name the method in plain words.

This page sits under Lease sensitivity analysis.

Need the next step? Open How do CAM caps change occupancy-cost risk.

See Which lease assumptions flip a ranking first when you want the nearby walk.

Open How do CAM charges change a lease comparison if this page is not the last step.

Investopedia defines net present value as later cash brought back to today. See Investopedia on NPV.

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Why it matters

This question still needs a dated cash walk: How does CAM sensitivity change a lease ranking?

A short recap cannot carry a year-by-year example.

The rank can flip when this input moves.

A finance lead will ask which line changed the number.

How it works

  • Put the numbers on one year list with rent.
  • Hold the other assumptions still.
  • Use one named method to shrink or spread the cash.
  • Show a second path so the gap is visible.
  • Keep the rate on the same page as the pick.
Later cash boxes sit farther right and look smaller than year-one cash.
Later cash is smaller in today's dollars. Teaching picture only.

Formula in words. CAM-sensitivity uses one shared rate and one dated list.

Required inputs for this page
InputMeaning
Start rentFirst-year rent before extras
ExtrasCAM, tax, or insurance the tenant still pays
CreditsFree rent or build-out money
TermHow many years the cash list runs
Discount rateHow hard later cash is shrunk

Worked example

Here is a teaching sample. It is not customer data and not a result from a live client.

CAM-sensitivity sample — two paths
MetricPath APath B
Start rent$31,000$28,830
Year-1 extras$16,000$17,120
Year-1 credit$3,000$1,650
Sample NPV$352,077$345,400
Cash-flow walk — CAM-sensitivity sample
YearRentExtrasCreditCash outValue today
Year 1$31,000$16,000$3,000$44,000$40,741
Year 2$31,930$16,480$0$48,410$41,504
Year 3$32,888$16,974$0$49,862$39,582
Year 4$33,875$17,484$0$51,359$37,750
Year 5$34,891$18,008$0$52,899$36,002
Year 6$35,938$18,548$0$54,486$34,335
Year 7$37,016$19,104$0$56,120$32,745
Year 8$38,126$19,677$0$57,803$31,229
Year 9$39,270$20,267$0$59,537$29,783
Year 10$40,448$20,875$0$61,323$28,404
Sample NPV$352,077

Sample NPV for CAM-sensitivity sample is about $352,077. A second path lands near $345,400.

Year 1 of CAM-sensitivity sample has rent of $31,000.

Shared building cost is $16,000.

A credit of $3,000 lowers the cash you pay that year.

Cash out this year is about $44,000. Year one carries the CAM-sensitivity sample credit.

Later cash gets a shrink for time. At 8 percent, year 1 is worth about $40,741 today.

Next, year 2 rent is $31,930.

See which inputs flip first

Assumptions

  • The CAM-sensitivity sample uses one visible 8 percent rate.
  • Credits hit in year one unless the page says otherwise.
  • Both options share the same extra basis.
  • No percentage rent sits in this teaching walk.

Edge cases

A mid-year start needs a stub period, not a fake full year.

A credit that pays later must move to that later year.

A cap on extras changes the later risk, not the first sticker.

Common mistakes

  • Copying a nearby page and only changing the title.
  • Hiding the rate.
  • Dropping extras on a net path.
  • Calling the teaching sample a live client result.

Decision implications

Uncapped extras can erase a cheap net rent. Move CAM up and down before you lock the rank.

If the gap is thin, show a second rate before anyone picks.

If one path wins only from a mistimed credit, rebuild the list.

This page answers one question. Nearby pages cover the next step.

See How do CAM caps change occupancy-cost risk when you need that next step. Open Which lease assumptions flip a ranking first for the nearby walk. Use How do CAM charges change a lease comparison if you want a second path.

Limits

  • The number does not score daylight, transit, or floor plate.
  • The number does not replace a legal read.
  • Do not let one metric pick a space the team cannot use.
  • Do not use this page as a clone of a nearby question.

U.S. BLS describes how brokers advise clients on property deals. See BLS broker occupation data.

See NAIOP and BOMA for professional context.

Trusted sources

These are public references. They are not endorsements and not client results.

  1. Investopedia — net present value
  2. Investopedia — discount rate
  3. U.S. BLS — real estate brokers
  4. NAIOP
  5. BOMA
  6. FASB