NCREIF MVI, FCFY, and CXR Series

NCREIF has created three new data series derived from commercial properties that qualify for the flagship NCREIF Property Index (NPI). All properties in the NPI have been acquired and managed on behalf of tax-exempt institutional investors, principally pubic and private pension funds.

Whereas the NPI is market-weighted, the three new series presented here are equal-weighted (each property is equally represented in the data that are themselves averages of all qualifying properties) and as such are representative samples of operating performance of the universe of US commercial real estate.

Detailed discussions of the rationale and computations of these series may be found on the NCREIF web site.

The Market Value Index (MVI) is a measure of the quarterly change in market value of each qualifying property.

The Free Cash Flow Yield (FCFY) is a measure of the amount of a property’s quarterly operating net cash flow available for distribution to investor/owners expressed as a fraction of market value.

The Capital eXpense Ratio (CXR) is a measure of the quarterly expenditures for on-going costs of business not accounted for in the Net Operating Income (NOI) including leasing commissions, tenant improvements, and other expenditures for replacement of long-lived equipment or physical structures, mostly tenant spaces, expressed as a fraction of market value.

The iPad version offers additional statistical measures including correlations among the data series across all property types.

The National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) is an association of institutional real estate professionals in the United States.

changes in version 4.5

• In iPad version there is now an optional correlation table with confidence intervals with numeric and graphical displays
• Confidence intervals are user defined and the beginning and ending dates of the various statistical series can be adjusted

changes in version 3.2

• Added a new derived computation in the iPad version for the Internal Rate of Return (I.R.R.) over a user-selectable time period
• Cash flows in the IRR include a purchase price of $100.00, quarterly cash flows in dollars derived from MVI and FCFY, and a sales price at the indexed MVI over the user defined period

changes in version 3.0

• Changes to accommodate iOS 9, mostly font changes
• Some GUI tweaks for consistency across NCREIF apps

changes in version 2.0

• In the iPad version, the indexed series will reset to and index of 100.0 in the quarter prior to the starting date as the date slider is moved
• Bug fixes and code improvements

change in version 1.3

• Bug fix in stats routine