MKTG7023 Property Investment and Risk Management
Assignment 2
Due Date: 17th March 2024, 11:00pm
Weighting: 60%
Assignment Details:
This is the second instalment in a series of two assignments that will result in the investment analysis report of an income-producing commercial property (office, retail, or industrial).
Task:
As a property analyst, you are required to carry out an investment analysis report for your client who has an opportunity to purchase an income-producing commercial property in Sydney or any other major city in Australia.
You must identify an income-producing commercial property and obtain the information for the property. You could utilise the information/subject property from the 1st assignment.
There are 4 major parts of this report:
Part 1: Introduction
You should provide the identification of the property.
Part 2: Investment Analysis
By using the collected data, conduct a detailed investment analysis. The analysis should include:
a) A Discounted Cash Flow (DCF)
b) Net Present Value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
Part 3: The impacts of leverage and risk in your investment analysis
By utilising the DCF from Part 2, conduct a detailed investment analysis by considering the impacts of:
a) leverage
b) risk
c) tax
Part 4: Conclusions
This section should provide a conclusion for the report. Your recommendation should be given.
Assignment Requirements
§ Although there is no page limit, this assignment should not exceed 2,500 words excluding appendices, tables and figures with using 12 points font size and 1.5 spacing.
§ The assignment must be submitted through Turnitin and must be accompanied by a soft copy of the related Excel file. However, it is essential that the body of the report discusses and reports the results of DCFs and does not simply say ‘refer to information in the Excel files’.
§ For the avoidance of doubt, although referencing and acknowledgements will be reflected in a marking schedule, failure to reference and acknowledge will lead to automatic failure of the assignment with a zero mark.
§ Late submission will be penalized in accordance with the School policy at the rate of 10% of awardable marks per day or part of day late.