What is NOI (net operating income) in industrial real estate?
Net operating income (NOI) is a property's income from operations after operating expenses, before debt service, capital expenditure, depreciation and income tax. In industrial real estate, where many leases are net and tenants reimburse most costs, NOI is driven mainly by rent, occupancy and any costs the landlord cannot recover. Scayled affects one part of it: when a unit is vacant or coming back, it finds 250 to 350 businesses the building suits, names the person who signs at each and drafts an approach per business, so the months at zero rent are fewer.
- How do you calculate NOI?
- What does NOI leave out?
- How does NOI relate to property value?
- What moves industrial NOI?
- How does vacancy hit industrial NOI?
- Where does Scayled fit with NOI?
How do you calculate NOI?
Start with potential rent, add expense recoveries from tenants and other income, then subtract vacancy and credit loss to reach effective gross income. Subtract operating expenses: property taxes, insurance, repairs and maintenance, management, utilities and common area costs. What is left is NOI.
As an illustration, an estate with potential rent of 1,500,000 and recoveries of 300,000 loses 150,000 to a vacant unit, giving effective gross income of 1,650,000. Operating expenses of 450,000 leave NOI of 1,200,000.
What does NOI leave out?
NOI excludes loan interest and principal, depreciation, income tax and, under most definitions, capital expenditure. Tenant improvements and leasing commissions are usually treated below the NOI line too, although conventions vary between owners, so check the definition when comparing figures.
The point of excluding financing is that NOI measures the property, not the owner. Two buyers with different debt can value the same building on the same NOI.
How does NOI relate to property value?
Value equals NOI divided by the capitalisation rate. An NOI of 1,200,000 at a 5.5 percent cap rate gives a value of about 21.8 million. The same arithmetic works in reverse: a fall of 100,000 in NOI at 5.5 percent takes about 1.8 million off value.
That is why small changes in income matter so much to owners. A void, a default or a lower rent on renewal moves value by many times the annual income lost.
What moves industrial NOI?
On the income side: rent reviews and fixed escalations, re-letting at market rent, leasing up vacant space, and the rent change on renewals. On the cost side: any expenses the landlord cannot recover, which are small on a triple net lease and larger on gross or modified gross leases.
The largest swings usually come from occupancy. Losing a tenant removes its rent and often shifts its share of the property's costs onto the landlord at the same time.
How does vacancy hit industrial NOI?
A vacant unit produces no rent, and on a net-leased building the landlord picks up the property taxes or business rates, insurance, security and utilities the tenant used to pay. NOI falls by the lost rent plus those costs for every month the unit is empty.
Downtime is the variable an owner can still influence after a lease ends. Starting the re-let before the handback, and reaching businesses that are not searching yet as well as those that are, shortens it.
Where does Scayled fit with NOI?
Scayled does not model or report NOI; Yardi, MRI and ARGUS Enterprise do that. It works on the vacancy that pulls NOI down, the months when rent is zero and the landlord carries the outgoings. Briefed on the unit, it produces 250 to 350 businesses the space suits, the person who signs at each and a drafted email per business, so the re-let starts with named prospects rather than a listing alone.
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