Real Estate Finance 101: An Essential Two-Day Workshop

Real estate finance is all about the structure and language underpinning every deal: how capital moves, how returns are structured, and how value is created at the property level. Use the wrong term, misunderstand a metric, or misread a P&L, and credibility disappears fast.

We’re here to help.

On January 28–29, Thesis Driven is hosting Real Estate Finance 101, a live, interactive workshop designed to give professionals a full grasp of real estate economics—so they can read the numbers, understand the incentives, and speak the language used across the real estate ecosystem. You’ll walk away with a working knowledge of all the fundamentals, even if you’ve never opened an Excel model before.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

How Real Estate Deals Are Structured
Understand the roles of GPs, LPs, lenders, and service providers, and how capital and incentives move between them. Learn why each property operates as its own business and how that structure shapes every decision.

How to Read the Numbers That Matter
Learn how to read a property P&L and identify what actually drives value. Decode core metrics like NOI, cap rate, IRR, and yield on cost—and understand how they connect directly to operational and strategic choices

How Capital Works in Practice
Break down the debt–equity capital stack, understand waterfalls, preferred returns, and promotes, and learn how developers get paid through fees, refinances, and exits

How to Speak Fluently with Developers and Investors
Translate concepts from startups, corporate finance, and operations into real estate terms so you can communicate clearly with owners, sponsors, and LPs.

Here’s what you’ll get:

Two Live 90-Minute Sessions, With Q&As

Sessions will be recorded for attendees and those who can’t make the live meetings.

Post-Workshop Access:

Circle community with recorded breakdowns, sample agreements, and template resources

Takeaway Resources

You’ll receive a copy of all of the Thesis Driven materials used in the sessions

This is a practical, operator-focused, hands-on session designed to build real estate deal-making fluency. It’s aimed directly at those professionals who want to speak the language of real estate finance with full confidence.

The session will be recorded and shared with all participants.

Wednesday, January 28 and 29, 2026
12–1:30pm Eastern time

See you there!
Brad, Paul, & Victoria