Monte Carlo Simulations in Excel without 3rd Party Add-ins

This tutorial walks you through how to do Monte Carlo simulations in Excel without using third-party add-ins.
The tutorial is done from the perspective of a commercial real estate professional, modeling the expected value of an apartment building, but the concepts covered are transferrable to other scenarios as well.
00:00 - Introduction
01:08 - Framing the Investment Scenario
02:29 - Building the Initial Discounted Cash Flow (DCF)
06:11 - Adding Probability to Assumptions
09:41 - Running the Monte Carlo Simulation
12:30 - Analyzing Simulation Results
16:00 - Visualizing the Simulation Distribution
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To learn more about the author, go to: www.spencerburton.org

Пікірлер: 24

  • @truchette
    @truchette8 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much Mr Burton for your videos. It's very helpful for my thesis on risk management for RE.

  • @jamesduthie147
    @jamesduthie1474 жыл бұрын

    Best example I've seen. Very easy to follow, thank you.

  • @stuartmcnulty3225
    @stuartmcnulty32254 жыл бұрын

    this was an awesome video, I learned a ton. Thanks!

  • @catpea33
    @catpea332 жыл бұрын

    Very clear and helpful explanation! Thanks

  • @ogundelevictor6744
    @ogundelevictor67443 жыл бұрын

    This is the best i have seen. Well explained

  • @antoniodelarosa9300
    @antoniodelarosa93003 жыл бұрын

    Hi Spencer, thanks for the video. Very useful info. One quick question, is there a way to find out the specific assumptions that yield a specific simulation's NPV?

  • @truthseeker9988
    @truthseeker99882 ай бұрын

    Hi there, should I go to Monte Carlo for better understanding this method?

  • @sonacruz907
    @sonacruz9077 жыл бұрын

    So cool! Thank you!

  • @catherineshenoy5754
    @catherineshenoy57545 жыл бұрын

    When you create the datatable you put a blank cell in the column input cell. What exactly is that doing? Thanks. Nice example.

  • @trigzwowclassic8438
    @trigzwowclassic84385 жыл бұрын

    Check out my free monte carlo simulator at niclashummel.com/risk-simulator

  • @benny351
    @benny3514 жыл бұрын

    Is the only advantage provided by a monte carlo simulation over a traditional sensitivity analysis just the fact that you can use more than 2 variables? Or is it a better form of analysis as well?

  • @photovideo215
    @photovideo215 Жыл бұрын

    I am stuck at min:12:05, I have no clue how you came up with those calculations (958.30,1041.7). Could you please explain that? Thank You!

  • @tanzeelfarooqi2872
    @tanzeelfarooqi28725 жыл бұрын

    Hi Spencer Burton and other friend, i have a question, Actually i have data which consists of only mean value of population and total number of samples taken from that population to get that population mean, but i wana calculate the sample mean of each nth sample ? is that possible by using Monte Carlo method? if yes how we will do it? please give me simple example...if no, is there any other possibility to predict an estimated values of each sample mean? Note: i have not have any other value like Standard Deviation, Standard error etc

  • @stuartmcnulty3225

    @stuartmcnulty3225

    4 жыл бұрын

    you can use the random number generator plugin (called 'data analysis plugin') which is a free add-on thats preloaded on excel to generator a set of numbers using a given std deviation and mean. then you can plug those numbers into your algebraic function to do the actual simulation

  • @farishaddadin1
    @farishaddadin13 жыл бұрын

    The issue is that since you used the RandBetween function to generate the random values. The graph output could have very well been a straight line from the minimum conditions to the maximum conditions. This would be extremely powerful if you could have made the random number generator follow a normal distribution. Please tell me if you know a way of doing it.

  • @adventuresincre

    @adventuresincre

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hey Fares - glad the tutorial was helpful! The tutorial is more about teaching how to produce simulations using the Data Table feature, than it is it show the various methods for creating randomness. RANDBETWEEN() is one simple method, among many. Nevertheless, you can check out my Apartment Acquisition Model with Monte Carlo Simulation module, where I use Excel's NORM.DIST() to produce random values that fall in a normal distribution. www.adventuresincre.com/apartment-acquisition-model-with-monte-carlo-simulation-module/

  • @farishaddadin1

    @farishaddadin1

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@adventuresincre amazing man....I'll check it out

  • @mjh6115
    @mjh61157 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much. Please see mail from your website.

  • @mbonisindimande5045
    @mbonisindimande50457 жыл бұрын

    Please tell me why in most of your models, you choose to use the next 12 months to calculate sales price and not the trailing 12 months.

  • @adventuresincre

    @adventuresincre

    7 жыл бұрын

    Mbonisi Ndimande Hi Mbonisi, in the markets I work in, convention is to cap the next 12 months. This is not necessarily the case for all markets, as some cap TTM.

  • @mbonisindimande5045

    @mbonisindimande5045

    7 жыл бұрын

    So how do you determine which market to use trailing 12 months and which markets to use next 12 months. Or if possible please provide a link/article/book that we may read to understand it better.

  • @mbonisindimande5045

    @mbonisindimande5045

    7 жыл бұрын

    I have one more question. If I am modelling for a value add investment and my rent growth rate for year 1 and 2 are over 10% (10%,13%), but go down after 2 years back to market growth of 3%, how do I run a monte calo simulation on that? Do I tell the program that my growth range is between maybe -0.5% and 13%? (0.5% being just and estimate of lowest growth and 13% being my highest growth due to adding more value the first 2 years). Have watched all your videos and they are really helpful. Only this one where I am not sure what to use on my values.

  • @mbonisindimande5045

    @mbonisindimande5045

    7 жыл бұрын

    Since DCF Value only works on unlevered investments, can you run monte carlo on levered investments?