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Farmland REIT financial model, built free.

A three-statement Excel model for a farmland and agricultural REIT, built from your own figures and checked to balance.

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The business

Owns farms, water entitlements and agricultural infrastructure (glasshouses, feedlots, processing sites) leased to growers on long net leases, with rent set as a yield on value and reviewed by CPI, fixed steps or periodic revaluation, plus water leases and occasional crop-share arrangements.

See the sampleHow the model works

In short

  • 01

    Three linked statements

    Income statement, balance sheet and cash flow, linked in every period.

  • 02

    Valued two ways

    Discounted cash flow and net asset value, side by side.

  • 03

    Monthly to annual

    Monthly, quarterly, half-yearly or annual periods, for up to 30 years.

  • 04

    Checked every period

    A Checks sheet shows the balance sheet balances and the cash reconciles.

The sample

The sample, as Excel draws it.

Built by the same system and checks as yours, on illustrative figures: every sheet as Excel draws it, or live.

Annual · 10 years · Low detail
Farmland REIT sample model.xlsx
The Summary sheet of the sample farmland REIT model

Illustrative figures: the sample describes no real business. The live preview shows values; your model’s Excel file has every formula.

How it works

How the model works for a farmland REIT.

  1. How it earns revenue3 formulas
    Other property income · All properties
    Car park incomeAverage occupied baysAverage rate per occupied bay per dayPaid days a yearshare of the year
    Acquisitions, disposals and capital recycling · Across the business
    Payments for acquisitions (including costs)Purchase price of properties acquiredStamp duty and acquisition costs
    Acquisitions, disposals and capital recycling · Across the business
    Proceeds from disposals (net of selling costs)Sale price of properties soldSelling costs
  2. What drives its costs3 formulas
    Property operating costs · All properties
    Property operating costsGross rental incomefrom rental incomeOperating costs as % of rental income
    Tenant receivables, bad debts and deposits
    Tenant receivablesTenant billings (rent, recoveries and other income)Tenant arrearsDays in period
    Corporate costs
    Management and corporate costsTotal assets at period startManagement expense ratioshare of the year
  3. What it invests in2 formulas
    Valuation · All properties
    Fair value movementValue (land + water + improvements)Opening valueMaintenance capexfrom capital expenditure
    Valuation · All properties
    Closing valueOpening valueMaintenance capexfrom capital expenditureFair value movement
  4. How it is funded3 formulas
    Debt
    Closing balanceOpening balanceDrawdownsRepayments
    Debt
    Interest expenseOpening balanceAll-in interest rateshare of the year
    Equity raising
    Equity raisedEquity raised (net of costs)Equity from an offer, milestone funding, conversions and creditor shares
  5. How profit becomes cash3 formulas
    Working capital
    Trade receivablesRevenuefrom statementsDebtor daysDays in period
    Working capital
    InventoryDirect costs (positive)from statementsInventory daysDays in period
    Working capital
    Trade payablesCash operating costs (positive)from statementsCreditor daysDays in period
What it covers

25 parts, each one tested.

Every part is a tested building block with its own checks: yours is put together from the ones your business needs.

  • CPI forecastCPI glide path
  • Corporate costsManagement expense ratio
  • Working capitalDays-based working capital
  • Income taxFlow-through entity (no entity tax)
  • DebtSingle debt facility
  • Equity raisingScheduled equity raisings
  • Dividends and distributionsPayout of FFO
  • Discounted cash flow valuationDCF on free cash flow to the firm
  • Net asset valueBook net asset value
  • Interest-rate hedgingHedged share at a fixed rate
  • Key-metric summaryStandard growth, margin and leverage metrics
  • Covenant tests and headroomLVR, gearing and ICR for property
  • Discount rate (WACC)CAPM at target gearing
  • Tenant receivables, bad debts and depositsArrears days and bad debt %Rent arrears and bad debts, rent received in advance, and security deposits or bonds held for tenants — the property-specific working-capital balances.
  • REIT metrics (FFO, AFFO, NTA, gearing)FFO and AFFO (Property Council of Australia)The earnings, balance-sheet and portfolio metrics investors use for property owners — FFO and AFFO, NTA per unit, gearing and covenant headroom, WALE and occupancy, like-for-like growth and rent cover.
  • Acquisitions, disposals and capital recyclingNamed acquisitions and disposalsProperties bought and sold during the forecast — named transactions, generic acquisitions at an assumed yield, and disposals that recycle capital — with transaction costs and gains or losses on sale.
  • Trust and REIT tax statusAustralian attribution MIT with tax-deferred distributionsThe tax rules that come with trust or REIT status — distribution requirements, taxable subsidiaries, tax-deferred distributions and withholding on property income paid to investors.
  • Interest-rate forecastFlat base rate
  • Property registerFarm register (hectares, water and improvements)The facts every other part of the model builds on — size, units, ownership share and opening value.
  • Rental incomeRent as a yield on property valueBase rent earned from tenants and the occupancy that drives it.
  • Property operating costsOperating costs as % of rental incomeOutgoings and other costs of running the property (rates, land tax, insurance, cleaning, security, repairs, management).
  • Net property incomeFull income waterfallProperty-level income less property operating costs.
  • Capital expenditureMaintenance capex as % of valueMaintenance, refurbishment and development spend added to the property's value.
  • ValuationLand rate per hectare plus water per MLOpening and closing property value and the fair value movement between them.
  • Other property incomeCar park bays × rate × utilisationCar park, turnover rent, amenity fees, storage ancillaries and other income earned at the property.
Key numbers

The numbers it tracks.

  1. 01rent as % of value
  2. 02water entitlements (ML)
  3. 03value per hectare
  4. 04WALE
  5. 05AFFO per unit
  6. 06NTA per unit
  7. 07gearing
Used for

What it is used for.

Also used for
  • Scenarios and sensitivities
  • Asset acquisition
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