Land-PIE version 7.6 for Financial Feasibility Analysis Released

 
Any company worth its salt will strive to improve their products or services… or die. The Tract-PIE Team continues to invest time and capital to deliver the most flexible, easy-to-use, versatile real estate investment cash flow projection software on the market. The Tract-PIE suite of systems has been benefiting large and small real estate residential [...]

Tract-PIE Office Condominium Financial Analysis Yields Great Returns

 
 
Rick McCann, CFO of Southern Home Builders, Shreveport, LA, purchased Tract-PIE about a year ago… but alas, it gathered dust on the shelf amidst the doom and gloom of a discouraged industry. Recently, however, Rick was willing to re-commit to learning Tract-PIE with a quick training session using a deal he was involved with. And [...]

Land Development Financial Analysis at Sunwood & Associates

 
 
With banks not actively lending on real estate projects, investment firms like Sunwood & Associates are very busy analyzing and evaluating all the deals that are submitted to them. That’s why Tract-PIE has been so important to them – to analyze potential deals quickly, filter out the viable deals and concentrate on the best ones [...]

Naive “Builder” is Not Realistic

We were recently contacted by someone who wanted to evaluate our Tract-PIE financial analysis system for a proposed Midwest residential project. As we connected our PCs (me on Windows, him on a Mac) and began the live demo by inputting his "real life" assumptions, I started to sense naivety and a lack of seriousness with [...]

Confessions of a Homebuilder Spreadsheet Financial Analysis Guru

I just got off the phone with Ruben Aguirre of Community Builders International of Las Cruces, NM. I smiled while hanging up the phone after hearing the "confessions of a spreadsheet guru"!  
Prior to using Tract-PIE, Ruben had created many spreadsheet models for generating cash flow projections and doing the financial analysis for all their [...]

Tract-PIE version 7.6 for Financial Feasibility Analysis Pre-Release

Any company worth its salt will strive to improve their products or services… or die. The Tract-PIE Team continues to invest time and capital to deliver the most flexible, easy-to-use, versatile real estate investment cash flow projection software on the market. The Tract-PIE suite of systems has been benefiting large and small real estate residential [...]

Live, Work, and Enjoy Life - Mixed Use Development in UT

 
          Our latest interview with Jared Westhoff of EGI Financial in Leeds, Utah gave us great insight into a
company that plans to remain profitable even though we are in the middle of an economic downturn. Located in the southern part of the State while working on projects from St. George to the greater  Salt [...]

Walkable Communities Are a Winner for Urban Community Partners

  
 
 
 
While “sustainability” is a word that if often flung around in today’s society, hearing it in the world of building and development is becoming more common. According to Ian Gillis of Urban Community Partners, LLC, “Everyone has their own definition of sustainability. For me I prefer the word “walkable. We want to create a community where [...]

Tract-PIE and Land-PIE Aid Florida Builder in Challenging Times

 
While there is much talk about having reached the economic bottom for the real estate market and that a possible upturn is right around the corner, developers and builders still may have uncertain times ahead.  Our latest interview was with Jeff Daley, a 36-year old Assistant Vice President for a regional developer in the southeastern [...]

Senior Housing Opportunities for Newlands Group

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Since beginning our interviews last year, we have come across one amazing story after another. While no one is enjoying, necessarily, the changes in the present real estate market, they are welcoming the creative opportunities rising from the ashes. Our latest interview with Michael Barnes was an exciting glance at new unforeseen opportunities and investments.
 
Situated [...]