CREIT (Commercial Real Estate Investment Template) is an intuitive yet highly functional financial modelling application to appraise and value UK commercial real estate investments. Combining the familiarity of an Excel interface with the superiority of a cloud-based platform, put simply, CREIT is easy to use and does everything you need it to.
Why CREIT?
UK Focus
CREIT is wholly UK-owned and developed by the UK CRE market for the UK CRE market. So we understand exactly what real estate professionals need in our market.
Simple and powerful
The familiar Excel-based interface, combined with the sophistication of a cloud platform, ensures you can get value from CREIT almost immediately.
Speed and accuracy
Load your tenancy schedules into CREIT in seconds with just a couple of clicks and model your deals in minutes using CREIT’s straight-forward dashboard. Tasks which would normally take hours, take minutes with CREIT without sacrificing accuracy.
Key features
What our customers say about CREIT
“CREIT is an exceptionally well designed product that makes running cash flows simple and efficient providing high quality analysis to our clients. Alex and his team are always on hand to run through any questions which provides an added level of quality to the product against its competitors.”
Freddie FoleySurveyor, Commercial Investment - National, Allsop
“CREIT has been an excellent platform for projecting cashflows, inputting debt financing, and targeting either a yield, an amount, or target IRR. The support from CREIT that we have received on various projects is unparalleled to other platforms we have used and is always answered efficiently.”
Caroline CrichtonCapital Markets, CBRE
“CREIT is a simple to use, easy to follow, highly capable and reliable solution for modelling single-let commercial real estate assets right through to complex portfolios. It provides us with the ability to model a wide range of properties & scenarios (with all of their respective nuances) accurately and efficiently. Having Alex’s expertise on hand is also invaluable.”
Will NelsonAssociate Partner, ACRE Capital Real Estate LLP
“Here at Craigard we have a very opportunist approach to deal making resulting in many different nuances to each potential project. The CREIT team have a very enthusiastic and hands on approach so they have been able to adapt the core model to each situation and have done so very promptly and competently.”
Paul FosterDirector, Craigard
“CREIT is a fantastic user-friendly interface which makes running cash flows very simple. The system is well laid out and allows users to enter all scenario specific assumptions to produce bespoke analysis.”
Will Crouch-SmithSurveyor, National Office Capital Markets, Knight Frank
“Just a quick note to let you know we are really pleased with how CREIT is working – thanks for all your help!”
Chris NorthamFounding Partner, Corbett Northam (formerly Head of City of London Capital Markets at JLL)
FAQs
What system support is available?
The CREIT team provide technical support seven days per week, either by email or by phone. We aim to respond to email enquiries within two hours.
Is my data secure?
Yes. The CREIT production database (project and portfolio data) is hosted by the Microsoft Azure cloud computing service within the UK. Project and portfolio data is encrypted and SSL (TLS 1.2 or higher) is used to communicate with the CREIT Portal and CREIT Excel Add-In. CREIT data is regularly backed-up to ensure its safety. All CREIT services are protected by Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
Meanwhile CREIT authentication and authorisation are managed by the Microsoft Azure Active Directory and only Object GUIDs (long numbers used by Azure to identify users) are stored within the CREIT database. Thus all personal data is stored by Microsoft, while the CREIT database contains no personal data. User email addresses are used by CREIT when users share project files with each other, however only sender initials are stored in the CREIT database.
How much does CREIT cost?
We offer sliding scale pricing according to the number of users. Please contact us to discuss your requirements.
Do I need to install CREIT on my PC?
Yes, you will need to install the CREIT Excel Add-In which can be downloaded from the CREIT Portal.
Can I try CREIT out?
Yes, we offer a seven day free trial of CREIT.
Does CREIT work on Macs?
CREIT has been designed to work within the Microsoft Windows environment. If you do not have access to a Windows PC, we can supply you with a remote Windows desktop that you can use through your browser (this may incur a nominal additional charge to cover our costs.)
Can CREIT be used for developments?
CREIT is a trademark of Housego Solutions Limited (HSL) which provides bespoke real estate financial modelling solutions. Although CREIT is currently not suitable for full-fledged developments, developers may be interested in trialling the highly versatile Excel-based HSL Real Estate Development Template. Please contact us for further information.
Does CREIT offer bespoke financial modelling?
CREIT does not provide this service directly, however our owner Housego Solutions Limited specialises in the provision of bespoke RE financial modelling and has worked with 60+ real estate firms covering all asset classes and strategies. Please contact us for further information.
