Help with excel test for brokerage (Retail)

Hi all,

New guy both to the industry and here. I have been working in real estate for the past year trying to soak up as much knowledge as I can (just graduated from school last year). I have an excel test coming up for an analyst job for a retail brokerage team (good market, well known company). Unfortunately, I am not very familiar with retail as I have never worked in on the asset class.

I have been told that I will be given a 3 tenant rent roll along with year end historical expense statements. I will be tasked with making a:
- in place expense summary
-stabilized expense summary

Could anyone help me with what this would look like for retail? Tips or examples would be much appreciated as I really want to study to make sure I can pass this. Thank you!

Thank you Jiggy95 for the help on my first question!

 

Somewhat. I took a course on it in school to make myself more competitive in the job market. However I currently work in multifamily so we predominantly use excel. The test will definitely be in excel (they have an argus test as well, but they told me they could teach argus to me more thoroughly and were only going to give an excel assessment). But thank you for the tips! I am used to breaking down T12s for multifamily, but just was wondering what nuances there were for retail. That does give me a better idea. Thank you for the response!

 
Jiggy95:
Just don't touch the mouse when you are constructing the model, people get axed for doing that sometimes
Why? I understand not using a mouse is much more efficient, but I think people really go overboard for the importance of an extreme level of excel skills.
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