Real Estate Math – Your Primary Pre-Requisite
In order to become a real estate professional you are required to pass a number of exams. In order to pass these exams you must be competent in a number of basic math skills. Although, these skills are not advanced they are an absolute requirement. Math skills are now synonomous with life skills. To be forewarned is to be forearmed! You may want to take immediate steps to improve your basic math skills in general and begin to learn real estate math skills in particular.
Here is a library of real estate math skills which you will encounter in the the OREA real estate courses.
The basic skills that are required to pass the OREA program are – courtesy of Math Magic Toronto – Real Estate Math:
What Are The Specific Math Skills Required To Become A Real Estate Agent?
The Ontario Real Estate College (OREA) describes the personal skills needed to become a successful real estate agent. Not surprisingly they include:
“Math – basic fundamentals, including multiplication, division, fractions, and percentages”
This is hardly a surprise. In fact “Course 1″ is quite “math heavy”. Your success or failure in course 1 will depend on your math skills. One of the four sections is called: “Introduction to Math Skills”.
Introduction To Math Skills is described by OREA as follows:
“… focusing on math and related skills required in a real estate
career. Chapter 7 highlights basic calculation skills involving fractions, decimals and percentages including the use of a calculator followed by area, volume and building measurements. Chapter 8 concentrates on mortgage
These real estate math skills establish the prerequisites for the real estate and real estate problem solving questions that appear in later courses. It is interesting that the basic concepts of geometry (areas, volumes, etc.) are included in your real estate math tool box. Knowledge of the basic concepts of geometry is necessary to determine building area measurements.
Examples of Real Estate Math – Commercial Real Estate – Math Skills Required
In addition, to the math covered in course 1, passing the OREA commercial real estate exam requires you to know (at a minimum the following):
– calculation of minimum rents
– calculation of additional rent
– calculation of percentage rents
– determining valuation and cap rates
– total cost of building per square foot
– determining total return, return on equity, leverage and the determination of whether the leverage is positive or negative
– valuation with the direct capitalization method
– Calculation of depreciation (CCA), the undepreciated capital cost (UCC) and recapture
– income vs. capital gain
– and more
Examples of Real Estate Math – Mortgages – Skills Required
– Interest: effective, nominal
– Present and Future Value, term, amortization period, term, early discharge
– Bonus, discounting of mortgages, interest penalties, amortization, blended payments
– monthly payments, compounding frequencies, pre-payment, mortgage buy downs
Many people have forgotten these skills or never had them to begin with. Either way our “Real Estate Math Prep” has been designed to:
First, teach the toolbox of math skills so that you can pass the exam; and
Second, ensure that you are able to apply these skills to solve problems on your OREA real estate exams and in your real estate career!
Note that the OREA Real Estate College Admissions Test is based heavily on the math skills that are essential to do real estate math.
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