Kahr's Challenge Cases

Solve 12 real world real estate private equity exams for potential new hires. Every case comes with a full solution in Excel and step-by-step walkthrough videos.

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Why This Course?

For over 20 years, I've taught real estate finance and real estate capital markets at leading graduate university programs. Every year, my students would ask me what they should expect to be tested on when they would apply to analyst and associate level jobs at real estate investment companies.

Finally, I hit on a very simple solution.

I asked a group of them to send me cell phone photos of the exams they were given. I removed the names of the companies to protect confidentiality, did a little reformatting, and then proceeded to solve all of those exams.

In this course, you can solve 12 actual exams, compare your work to my comprehensive walkthroughs of me solving them, and then review the solutions in unlocked Excel files.

Enjoy.

- Josh Kahr

What Will I Learn?

Product Types and Strategies

The cases cover a range of product types, including residential, office, industrial, and retail. Examples are given of investing in existing assets, value add opportunities, and ground-up development.
Real World Examples

All the cases were used by actual investment companies including REITs and private equity firms to test incoming analysts and associates. You'll receive complete solutions for all cases and comprehensive walkthroughs.
Icon & text

All major financial metrics are covered. Learn how to build unlevered and levered cash flows. Explore partnership and joint venture structures.

Course curriculum

1. Abacus, Part 1
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2. Abacus, Part 2
3. Abacus, Part 3
4. Answer Key
1. Balsa Construction, Part 1
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2. Balsa Construction, Part 2
3. Balsa Construction, Part 3
4. Answer Key
1. Cordelia Capital, Part 1
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2. Cordelia Capital, Part 2
3. Answer Key
1. Purple Partners, Part 1
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2. Purple Partners, Part 2
3. Purple Partners, Part 3
4. Answer Key
1. Lorelei Investors, Part 1
2. Answer Key
1. Approximata, Part 1
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2. Approximata, Part 2
3. Answer Key
1. Argento Advisors, Part 1
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2. Argento Advisors, Part 2
3. Argento Advisors, Part 3
4. Argento Advisors, Part 4
5. Answer Key
1. Aurora Capital, Part 1
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2. Aurora Capital, Part 2
3. Aurora Capital, Part 3
4. Aurora Capital, Part 4
5. Aurora Capital, Part 5
6. Aurora Capital, Part 6
7. Answer Key
1. Black and Green LLC, Part 1
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2. Black and Green LLC, Part 2
3. Black and Green LLC, Part 3
4. Black and Green LLC, Part 4
5. Answer Key
1. Fire Fund, Part 1
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2. Fire Fund, Part 2
3. Fire Fund, Part 3
4. Answer Key
1. Icarus Financial, Part 1
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2. Icarus Financial, Part 2
3. Icarus Financial, Part 3
4. Icarus Financial, Part 4
5. Answer Key
1. Black Capital, Part 1
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2. Black Capital, Part 2
3. Black Capital, Part 3
4. Black Capital, Part 4
5. Black Capital, Part 5
6. Black Capital, Part 6
7. Black Capital, Part 7
8. Black Capital, Part 8
9. Black Capital, Part 9
10. Answer Key
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About this course

$299.00
63 lessons
9 hours of video content

Instructor(s)

Joshua Kahr

Senior Instructor

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Joshua Kahr is the principal of Kahr Real Estate Services, a training and consulting company that he founded in 2002 and that serves the commercial real estate industry. In 2009, he founded Metropolitan America, a real estate investment company that owns and manages apartment buildings in New Jersey. In 2020, he started Essex Suites, a coworking company, that opened its first location in Verona, New Jersey.

Prior to this, he held positions in investment sales at a regional brokerage firm in New York City and in acquisitions at a fund that focused on environmentally contaminated real estate.

He was on the board of directors of two public companies, Monmouth Capital Corporation and Monmouth Real Estate. He was an advisory board member of Assess+RE which was sold to LightBox in 2021. He is currently on the advisory board of clik.ai.

Mr. Kahr has served as an adjunct associate professor since 2005 for Columbia University’s MS in Real Estate Development program where he has taught real estate finance, real estate capital markets, and related topics. He has also served as an adjunct professor at Northwestern, New York University, and Georgetown University. For corporations, he has taught over 200 two-day seminars on Excel modeling and Argus.

Publications include two books on real estate market analysis, Real Estate Market Valuation and Analysis (John Wiley and Sons: 2005) and Beyond the Bubble (Amacom Books: 2007).

He has a Master of Science in Real Estate from New York University (’97) and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Reed College (’92).

He is also licensed as a real estate broker in New York and New Jersey.

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