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A property's value in commercial real estate reduces to one ratio, annual net operating income divided by the cap rate the market demands, and understanding what moves each side of that ratio is most of what real estate valuation actually is.
Project finance funds a single asset, a toll road, a power plant, a wind farm, with debt that can only be repaid from that asset's own cash flows, so lenders analyze one project in isolation instead of the sponsor's whole balance sheet.
A REIT is an ordinary company wrapped in one unusual tax rule, pay out almost all your income and you never pay corporate tax on it, and that single rule explains why REITs pay high dividends, carry real debt, and still trade like stocks that swing more than the buildings they own.
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