IRR Decrease Justified?

Hey All - I'm having issues wrapping my head around the decrease in IRR from 7% to 1.1% even though I'm dropping hard costs by roughly the same percentage. 

Do you think even with this decrease in rents/construction costs the IRR is going to drop that significantly? Or am I missing something?

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  • All scenarios assume 8yr hold, exiting at a 5.25% cap,
  • HUD debt assumptions remain the same, although sizing varies based on project costs
    • Fixed at 5.5%, 36mo I/O, 50% LTC, 35yr amortization
  • Agreed that I think it makes sense as well, someone on our team pointed out that the IRR's didn't make sense, but with the reduced rents the cash flow dries up pretty quick even with the reduced hard costs. 
 
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wilkoenm
  • All scenarios assume 8yr hold, exiting at a 5.25% cap,
  • HUD debt assumptions remain the same, although sizing varies based on project costs
    • Fixed at 5.5%, 36mo I/O, 50% LTC, 35yr amortization
  • Agreed that I think it makes sense as well, someone on our team pointed out that the IRR's didn't make sense, but with the reduced rents the cash flow dries up pretty quick even with the reduced hard costs. 

If you ever need to sense check something because something feels off, use rule of thumbs.

Your yield / COC is your income return. (for the purposes of this excercise, assume the two are one and the same - in reality I know they're not) 

Leveraged COC = yield + (yield - interest) * (debt / equity)

This is your income return for every year of income. 

Your capital return is the difference between your yield. 

Entry yield / exit yield 

If you factor in rental growth multiply the entry yield by (1 + growth) raised to the power of n years

The equity return with leverage is (entry yield - exit yield) / (equity * exit yield) 

Add those numbers up and divide by the number of years to get an approximate IRR

It doesn't work in all instances, but it gives you a very rough idea of where your numbers should land. 

 
wilkoenm
  • All scenarios assume 8yr hold, exiting at a 5.25% cap,
  • HUD debt assumptions remain the same, although sizing varies based on project costs
    • Fixed at 5.5%, 36mo I/O, 50% LTC, 35yr amortization
  • Agreed that I think it makes sense as well, someone on our team pointed out that the IRR's didn't make sense, but with the reduced rents the cash flow dries up pretty quick even with the reduced hard costs. 

Just to add to my comments below.

Remember this ignores a lot of the nuance of the actual deal (development, partial I/O, growth etc) but that doesn't necessarily matter as you're only trying to roughly gauge if your model makes sense.

CoC - ignoring I/O is only for 3 years, assume straight I/O and assumes income starts day 1

4.38% + (4.38%-5.50%) = 3.26%

​​​​​​3.26% * 8 = EM 0.26

Capital Return

4.38 / 5.25% = 83.4% of initial equity

With leverage (4.38% - 5.25%) / (50%*5.25%) + 1 = EM 0.67

0.26 + 0.67 = 0.93

Given your actual EM is 1.09 and the approximation above takes you to 0.93, I'd be fairly happy with the logic the model is telling me. 

This is by no means an exact science, but it helps to justify the logic of your model without interrogating every formula in every row. 

​​​But I have to ask, why would you develop something for 4.8% only to sell it for 5.25% even in your best case scenario? You're taking all of that development risk and not being paid for it. Is this standard in the States? ​​​​​​​​​​​

 

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