ARGUS Software

Global Interoperability
Work on more cross-border investment projects with the global capabilities in ARGUS. In addition to the ability to create default settings by country, the results in ARGUS Valuation - DCF may be instantaneously translated from English, French, German, Spanish or Japanese into any of the above stated languages.
Global standard
ARGUS Valuation - DCF is the recognized standard for national and international developers, lenders, asset managers, pension advisors, and investors. Using ARGUS Valuation - DCF will provide more efficient access to these players
Powers critical business processes
ARGUS Valuation - DCF not only powers the critical business processes and workflows that drive commercial real estate, but also provides a market-tested, consistent standard for commercial real estate organizations.
Fast and powerful
ARGUS Valuation - DCF is a sophisticated application that saves valuable time with its unique style of flexible rent roll input, drill-down capabilities, calculation engine and dashboard interface
Accurate and reliable
ARGUS Valuation - DCF has been carefully engineered and tested by real estate and programming professionals, and has been market tested by thousands of global companies.
Understandable and audit worthy
ARGUS Valuation - DCF documents your assumptions and supports your financial conclusions with its standard reporting of all input data, property and portfolio level summary reports and detailed tenant-by-tenant supporting schedules. ARGUS further provides reliable transparent results that are easily understood and dissected by reviewers.
Integrated and open
ARGUS Valuation - DCF supports a number of data transfer tools and utilities, including an Excel Import Wizard, native ARGUS reXML support for ARGUS INSIGHT Reporting for ARGUS DCF Valuation and CONNECT downloads from MRI and Yardi, ARGUS RealmX for ARGUS Property Management integration, OpenARGUS integration with MS Access or SQL, and a robust Excel export tool and embedded Excel Report Writer. To decide which configuration of ARGUS Valuation - DCF is right for you, click here.

From dirt to disposition, ARGUS Valuation - DCF quickly models simple or complex office, retail, industrial, multifamily, senior-assisted living, hotel, mixed-use and development projects. It performs financial projections, valuation and return calculations via a number of flexible, yet easy-to-use, features:

Feature	Purposes
Executive Dashboard	Provides project snapshots with information relevant to the different roles within the commercial real estate industry such as appraisers, brokers and lenders.
Property Library Table	Organizes large portfolios or multiple versions of financial models for individual assets for easy access and comparative analysis
ARGUS Valuation - DCF Wizard	Streamlines the input of simple projects and shortens the learning curve
Rent Roll	Provides a flexible, intuitive interface for analyzing leases, speculative renewals and the absorption of vacant space
Space Absorption	Redemise existing space or ratably lease vacant or newly constructed space with ease
Monthly Revenue and Expense Details	Precisely forecast operating and capital budgets for individual projects or at a portfolio level
Global Input Assumption Categories	Standardize market rates, growth rates and unique tenant attributes across an organization to facilitate rapid projection updates and portfolio slicing and dicing
Excel Report Writer and Standard Reports	Create custom or ad-hoc reports in Excel with data dynamically linked to ARGUS Valuation - DCF files or access over 200 presentation reports, supporting schedules and audit tracking documents to support your financial results
Graphical Stacking Plan	Create a graphical representation of your building color coded by rent, expiration, size or a number of other methods
Portfolio Roll-up and Sensitivity Scenarios	Consolidate any number or type of projects at a tenant, property or partner level. Create detailed sensitivity scenarios to see the impact of changes to any number of assumption variables across a portfolio or to individual assets within a portfolio
Partnership Waterfall Calculations	Model equity contribution and distribution business rules in order to project financial returns to any number of partners within a project or portfolio; also model lender’s equity participation scenarios
Development Financing and Loan Sizing	Create draw notes tied directly to projected construction costs, refinancing scenarios tied to current or future period valuations, or mezzanine and permanent financing terms complete with points, fees, prepayment penalties, interest only periods and more (you can also model debt in an alternate currency).
Multi-Currency Support and Consolidation	Separate input and output currency settings and detailed exchange rate tables allow you to model individual assets in any local currency and then convert the financial results to any other currency at a project or portfolio level
International Lease Structures and Valuation	Powerful lease analysis techniques and tools for rent indexation and leasing cost conventions typical in North America, Europe and Asia.
Excel, Access and SQL Import and Export	Integrated tools and utilities for importing and exporting financial, tenant/unit, property and portfolio data to and from a range of business productivity applications.