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With the economy the way it is, more people are trying to decide what they should do with their money and their capital in their homes and in their businesses. There are some questions you need to ask yourself before you can figure out what your cap rate is.

You will need to know how much the property is worth and how do you know if you can get back a decent return on your investment. The majority of real estate investors use a cap rate to determine the value of income from a property.

People in the business such as brokers, sellers and lenders use estimates from cap rates but the way to get a true idea is to calculate the actually cap rate yourself. A basic formula for a cap rate in the terms of real estate is, taking the Net Operating Income or NOI and then dividing it by the sale price and you have your cap rate. It is not a difficult process to figure out, but others like to use estimates. It would be better just knowing what you have top work with exactly.

An example of a calculation of a cap rate would be the Net Operating Income would be 125,000 and the sale price of the property would be 1,125,000 the cap rate would be 11.1%.

You may want to know exactly what does the cap rate prove. The cap rate is used to project the return on the property. If the property was bought in cash then the calculation would be as cut and dried as it was. But very few people buy their properties in cash. So you would have to figure out what the debt service is or loan to value situation, these would have to be subtracted from the NOI and then refigured.

Before you can figure out the cap rate, you have to have all of your numbers and make sure that these numbers are accurate. If you are off even a little bit then the whole entire calculation is going to be put off. By getting an estimated cap rate as we mentioned before. You are assuming a figure to be true and you can really misjudge the rate if you are wrong in your estimating.

If you are having trouble with figuring out the numbers, call a real estate broker and they will be more than happy to help you get on the right track.