CRE Modeling - NPV Rate

I am new to CRE modeling and I am building a model on a property acquisition and resale for a uni assignment. I found a pretty nice model on wallstreetprep course library that comes to IRR.

I am wondering which discount rate should I use for the NPV? (As it is required in the assignment instruction, but no CRE model I found calculates it): should it be a WACC (and in this case, how do we calculate cost of equity?) or the cap rate? 

Any hint would be much appreciated. 

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