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Cap Rate

Capitalization Rate

Updated over 2 years ago

A rate of return on an investment as a percent.

A cap rate in its simplest form is a return on an investment based on the principle of anticipation. The cap rate in its simplest form represents the yield of a property over a one-year time horizon assuming the property is purchased on cash and not on loan. The capitalization rate indicates the property’s intrinsic, natural, and unlevered rate of return. A cap rate attempts to quantify the risk profile of the future benefits. By converting income into value, a cap rate expresses the relationship of one year's income and value.

Cap rate in Delve’s financial model expects an overall rate. The common range of profit on cost for a typical project is between 4% and 10% (the number will vary depending on the location of the property as well as the rate of return required to make the investment worthwhile)

How this is used

Cap rate is a user’s assumption and is used to calculate value through dividing the NOI.

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