Being a property investor it is always important to know how efficient your
own invested capital is employed. This capital can be referred to as owner's
equity in contrast to borrowed capital, which usually are loans from a
capital lender, for instance your financing bank. The net rent minus all
expenses, your profit, divided by the owner's equity is the return on
(owner's) equity, usually in percent.
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1. Which input parameters are required to calculate the return on equity?
Please provide the complete employed owner's capital, the basic
rent and the non-transferable operating expenses and the interest
on your loan.
The input for the maintenance fee
is optional.
You can choose to plug-in either monthly or annual values, for the
financial costs (only the interests) you can choose a monthly,
quarterly, semiannually or annually time frame.
2. What is the significance of the return on equity?
The return on (owner's) equity (ROE), is a measurement on how efficient you
invested your own money. In principle you need the employed capital,
the earnings and expenses (net income) to calculate the return.
3. How much of your own capital should you invest?
To answer this question it usually is a good idea to evaluate the risks
involved and your constraints as an investor. Although there is no general
answer to that, the following considerations might help you with that process:
Having a more closer look at the mathematics, we notice that the
return on equity increases to infinity, if we let the equity go to zero,
keeping the net income constant. This makes perfectly sense
in the way that in this case we create a return out of basically nothing.
Practically however, this would be the case where you completely
finance the property with borrowed capital. If we consider a low
owner's equity to borrowed equity ratio as more risky, then the ROE
can be used as a risk and leverage indicator. The more risk involved,
the more it is important to carefully plan and calculate your investment,
especially the cashflow. At any time
you should be able to pay back the interests of your loan, no matter
if you have expensive repairs or maintenance or even a loss of rent on
your property.
If there is no borrowed capital involved in your property investment, then
the return on equity is identical to the
net return, since the price of the property as well as the additional
costs when buying a property are paid out of your pocket.
In this case the risk is considered lower and your leverage is lost.
We conclude that the lower the amount of your employed capital the
higher is your return on equity and therefore your leverage and of course
the risk, assuming we keep the net income fixed.
4. How do you calculate the return on equity?
The return on equity per year is calculated as follows:
The basic rent as well as the operating costs are on a per year basis.
The operating costs per year consist of the non-transferable costs
and the maintenance fee.
non-transferable operating costs per year
financing costs (interests) per year
+ maintenance fee per year
operating costs per year
5. Is the return on equity constant over time?
No, the return on equity changes over time in general. Reasons for that are
increasing or decreasing rents, changing operating expenses and if you have
changing interests on your financing e.g. on an annuity loan - due to the
regular redemption payment the owner's equity increases over time, while
simultaneously the interests decrease.
If we consider an annuity loan, two effects occur. First, since you
have a fixed annuity consisting of interests and redemption payments the
interests decrease gradually and if we keep the owner's equity constant
the ROE then increases, assuming all other variables remain fixed.
However, we could argue that by having to pay the redemption payments
we increase the equity, the owner's capital really, which would result in
an overall gradually decrease in ROE until the loan is fully paid back.
In this case, your cashflow over that time
period would stay constant since the annuity is usually constant.
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