"Lease Modeling Test"

I've got an interview coming up at a major NYC real estate services company (CBRE, JLL, C&W) for their consulting practice. I have been told I'll be taking a "lease modeling test" during my final round. Anyone have an idea of what sort of model/questions might be asked? I'm assuming it will focus on office leases.

My best guess is they will ask me to summarize a lease, get a net effective rent, and model the cashflows through the term? Besides having to account for leasing commissions, free rent, TI, usual building expenses, etc, what other things should I keep in mind? Is it typical to do something like NPV the cash flows in this type of model. Any insight or advice would be a huge help.

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Do you think it would be just model a single lease? If its a gross lease will they most likely give me the value or % of expenses so I can model how much the tenant owes landlord? If you have an idea of what this test might be can I PM you?

 
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