Green Street Advisors’ Glossary of Commercial Real Estate Terms

Green Street Advisors Glossary of Commercial Real Estate Terms3Chattel Loan:A loan on a mobile or manufactured home, not including the land on which it sits. Assetsused as collateral for a chattel mortgage must be movable or non permanent in nature.Community Center:Sells general merchandise or convenience-oriented goods/services. Offers a widerrange of apparel and other soft goods than neighborhood centers. The center is usuallyconfigured in a straight line, as a strip, or may be laid out in an L or U shape, dependingon the site and design.Comprehensive Leverage:Balance sheet risk is, first and foremost, a function of how much debt a companyemploys. Traditionally, this risk is measured by two equally valid methods: liabilities-toassetsand Debt-to-EBITDA. However, these metrics are only a starting point becauseneither measure accounts for near-term maturities, extent of recourse, or other unfundedobligations. To capture these risks, Green Street calculates a Comprehensive LeverageRatio. Excessive near-term maturities result in considerably higher comprehensiveleverage, whereas the use of non-recourse debt reduces overall balance sheet risk andthus, the ratio. Lastly, unfunded liabilities (e.g., development) are treated as a contingentliability and a contingent asset, which pushes the comprehensive leverage ratio north.While the exact calculations are complicated, mixing all of these variables together yieldsa solid estimate of all the risks associated with a company’s use of debt.Construction in Progress (CIP):Reflects the cumulative cost of in-process development projects incurred since inception.CIP should include the cost of the land and other “soft costs” such as capitalized interestand professional fees, although not all companies do so . In our Net Asset Value (NAV)estimates, CIP may be shown at a value that is higher/lower than the amount shown on acompany’s balance sheet depending on our evaluation of the risk/reward of the project.See also Value Creation.CPPI:See Green Street Advisors’ Commercial Property Price Index.Current Value of Net Income (CVNI):The sum of common dividends paid by a company plus changes in NAV/Share over time.CVNI is calculated similarly as total returns, but it is designed to measure theoretical NAVgrowth if dividends are reinvested in the company (rather than investment growth).Data Center:A highly specialized facility designed to house racks of mission-critical computer serversand the associated infrastructure required to power and cool them 24 hours a day. Datacenters can be classified as (not mutually exclusive):Network-Dense: Data centers that act as key hubs for the Internet. Network-densedata centers are rare, hard-to-replicate, and exhibit strong pricing power. They arethe data center equivalent of “high-barrier” office buildingsEnterprise Data Center: Data centers that serve the needs of corporate ITdepartments and large-scale Internet enterprises. These facilities are more exposed tocompetition than “network-dense” data centers.WWW.GREENSTREETADVISORS.COM© 2014, Green Street Advisors, Inc. - Use of this report is subject to the Terms of Use listed at the end of the report.