Offering Memorandum Analysis
Turn a broker's offering memorandum - single asset or portfolio - into a clean, queryable deal record, with the headline numbers recomputed and the aggressive assumptions flagged.
What it extracts
18 extraction fields
- Offering Summary
- The deal-level facts that describe the offering as a whole - name, single-asset versus portfolio, property count and types, seller, aggregate size, guidance price, blended cap rate, markets, and sale conditions - captured once per OM.
- Listing Brokers
- The brokerage team representing the seller, one row per named broker with firm, title, role, and contact - so the analyst knows who to call and which firms are co-listing the deal.
- Properties in Offering
- The spine of the record - one row per property with the headline attributes an analyst filters and compares on (type, location, size, occupancy, WALT, in-place NOI, going-in cap, price), and the Property Name that joins every other property-level table.
- Property Physical Specs - Common
- The physical specifications that apply to any property type - net rentable area, building and story counts, FAR, zoning, construction, roof, and parking - one row per property, joined to the spine.
- Property Specs - Type-Specific
- The specifications that matter only for a property's type - clear height and dock doors for industrial, floor plate and elevators for office, center type and anchors for retail, amenities for multifamily - populated by type and left null otherwise.
- In-Place Financials
- The current, in-place income and expense detail per property (plus an optional portfolio total) - NOI, going-in cap, rent, recoveries, effective gross revenue, and each expense line - read from the current column, not the pro forma.
- Broker Underwriting Assumptions
- How the broker modeled the deal, not actual terms - hold period, market rent and expense growth, renewal probability, mark-to-market, downtime, vacancy, reserves, and new-versus-renewal lease term, free rent, TI, and commissions - the assumptions an analyst must scrutinize.
- NOI / Cash Flow Projection
- The broker's projected cash flow, one row per year per scope - occupancy, market and in-place rent, revenue, expenses, NOI, and year-over-year NOI growth - so the analyst can see the trajectory the pricing rests on.
- Return Projections
- The pricing and return metrics the OM presents or that the agent computes - going-in, stabilized, and exit cap rate, unlevered and levered IRR, equity multiple, cash-on-cash, yield on cost, and price per SF or unit - each tagged broker-projected, actual, or computed.
- Debt and Financing Guidance
- Any debt the OM discloses - assumable in-place financing with its lender, balance, rate, maturity, and prepayment terms, the loan-to-value at guidance, in-place DSCR, and any suggested new financing - or a clear note that the asset is offered unencumbered.
- Rent Roll
- The full rent schedule for every tenant, one row per distinct rent period, capturing every scheduled bump and escalation, recovery type, and market rent - the granular income backbone of the deal.
- Tenant Roster & Lease Terms
- One row per tenant summarizing the full lease - term, size, industry, guarantor, recovery type, renewal options, free rent, and standout clauses like ROFO, ROFR, termination, and co-tenancy - the terms that drive risk and value.
- Lease Expiration Schedule
- The rollover schedule, one row per expiration year per scope - leases and SF expiring, cumulative percentage, and contract versus market rent at expiration - so the analyst can see rollover risk and mark-to-market opportunity over the hold.
- Unit Mix
- The residential unit mix for multifamily or unit-based assets, one row per unit type per property - count, average SF, in-place and market rent, and share of units - the income structure for residential deals.
- Market & Submarket Profile
- The market context the broker presents, one row per named submarket - inventory, vacancy, net absorption, asking rent and growth, construction pipeline, demand drivers, major employers, and demographics - framed to the relevant property type.
- Comparable Sales
- The comparable sales the OM presents to support its pricing, one row per comp - size, sale date, price, price per SF or unit, cap rate, and parties - the evidence the analyst tests the asking price against.
- Underwriting Scrutiny and Validation Checks
- The analytical heart - recompute the going-in cap rate as in-place NOI over price, size the pro-forma versus in-place NOI lift and explain what drives it, recompute price per SF or unit against comps, foot the rent roll to the financials, and flag broker assumptions that look aggressive against the market, each marked Pass, Fail, Review, or Aggressive.
- Investment Summary & Highlights
- The one-look synthesis of the whole offering - thesis, key strengths, key risks (drawing on the flagged validation checks), value-add levers, notable deal tidbits, and a suggested next step - so an analyst scanning many deals can triage quickly.
Where it fits
Commercial real estate acquisitions and deal screening
Upstream
Deal sourcing - a listing broker sends an offering memorandum (OM) by email or through a deal-room link, or an analyst pulls it from the deal pipeline for a property or portfolio under consideration
This step
Offering memorandum analysis - reading and abstracting the broker's OM into a structured, verifiable deal record
Downstream
- Deal Underwriting - populating the firm's underwriting model from the abstracted OM
- IC Memo - drafting the investment-committee memo for deals that advance
- Pipeline database and comparison across submarkets and deals
What it needs
Documents
- Offering memorandum (OM)
- Broker deal package or teaser
- Rent roll
- Trailing operating statement (T-12)
- Broker cash flow or Argus export
- Lease abstracts (when bundled in the OM)
Systems
- Deal room or virtual data room
- Google Drive or SharePoint
- Deal-pipeline or CRM system
Prerequisites
- The offering memorandum PDF for the property or portfolio
- Any bundled rent roll, operating statement, or cash flow the broker provided
- Your target property types and markets, so the record is comparable across deals
What it produces
A structured, cited deal record at the property grain: deal terms, brokers, per-property specs and financials, broker assumptions, in-place versus pro-forma NOI and cash flow, projected returns and financing, rent roll, tenancy and lease rollover, unit mix, market context, and comps - with the broker's headline figures recomputed and aggressive assumptions flagged
Delivered to
- Deal-pipeline or CRM system
- Underwriting model
- Deal folder
- Comparable-deals database
Review model
An acquisitions analyst reviews the flagged validation checks - the recomputed cap rate, the pro-forma versus in-place NOI delta, and any assumptions flagged as aggressive - and the cited source values before the deal advances to full underwriting. The agent screens and abstracts; it does not replace the analyst's go or no-go judgment.
Who uses it
Volume fit
Works best for
acquisitions and investment-sales teams screening a steady flow of OMs - dozens of deals a month across markets and property types
Too small for
a team that reviews only one or two deals a year and reads every OM cover to cover regardless
Grounded in
- CRE Finance Council Investor Reporting Package (CREFC IRP)verified as of 2026-07-22
- NCREIF PREA Reporting Standards (Real Estate Information Standards)verified as of 2026-07-22
- Analytical stance - the OM is the seller's marketing documentverified as of 2026-07-22
Changelog
- July 2026
based on a deal-screening deployment developed with a commercial real estate investment manager
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