CREModels Managing Director Mike Jaworski spearheads business development for the firm’s consulting and enterprise services division. Working closely with our largest and most sophisticated clients, he executes multidimensional projects involving fund-modeling, portfolio-management, custom data analytics and real estate M&A.
Institutional investors, private equity firms, and large family offices rely on Mr. Jaworski’s expertise in real estate equity modeling and analytics. On the debt side, his understanding of real estate business processes and complex, debt-related analysis makes him a trusted source for private debt funds, CMBS investors and midsized real estate lenders across the country.
In partnership with our tech team, Mr. Jaworski produces advanced business intelligence tools that integrate real estate and financial data from disparate sources, providing game-changing insights for our clients. Most recently, his collaborations with property tax advisors have led to the creation of groundbreaking algorithms for automated valuation modeling.
Since co-founding CREModels in the midst of the Great Financial Crisis, Mr. Jaworski has been instrumental in the evolution of our products and services. Along the way, he has worked with clients on deals totaling more than $20 billion in sectors such as multifamily, office, retail, industrial, data centers, medical/healthcare, self-storage, hospitality, and senior and student housing.
Mr. Jaworski, who earned a chemical engineering degree from Michigan State University, is a 20 plus-year commercial real estate veteran. A member of ICSC and NAIOP, he started out as an investment sales broker in Detroit and Tampa, closing dozens of transactions valued at more than $1 billion in total.
Mr. Jaworski's thought leadership includes conducting investor workshops for GPs and LPs, penning columns for trade publications, giving interviews to industry reporters, and speaking at tax, real estate, investing and other conferences. An avid golfer, he lives in Rochester Hills, Michigan, with his wife and two young children.
Content Featuring Mike Jaworski:
Opportunities for private capital are growing faster than ever in today’s more constrained financing environment. To help smaller and mid-sized private equity firms and debt funds take advantage of emerging opportunities, CREModels provides informed, holistic and pragmatic liquidation-value assessments of all assets in play. On the real estate front, we rely on our decades of…
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Lima One Capital‘s multifamily lending business is in hockey stick-like growth mode. Five years ago, the Greenville, S.C.-based private lending company-it was founded by two U.S. Marines and named for their call sign-had closed less than $10 million in multifamily loans. As of October 2023, that cumulative figure stood at about $1.6 billion. “We focus…
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Private Equity Waterfall is the preferred method for distributing the profits from a real estate investment. The goal is to align the interests of the various parties who invest in an individual deal or fund.
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After a construction loan is funded, the ink begins to dry on development pro forma models as the market assumptions become less reliable. When major market disruptions strike, stakeholders on all sides quickly demand answers. Developers can be prepared by stress-testing scenarios in advance.
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Real estate portfolio stress testing is one method we use to assess an investor’s ability to weather upcoming (or ongoing) economic turmoil. There are four primary factors we like to start with when doing a stress test on a real estate portfolio.
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As LIBOR deadlines come into focus, crafting fallback language and vetting SOFR become top priorities for businesses and regulators. Businesses across the globe are preparing to say goodbye to LIBOR with a move to a new benchmark that has been called a “seismic shift” for many financial institutions.
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U.S. banks lay the groundwork for the successor to LIBOR, replacements emerge for the real estate industry. Since the mid-1980s, the London Interbank Offered Rate, better known as LIBOR, has been the reference on which most floating-rate loans—an estimated $300 trillion in financial contracts globally—are based. However, the financial world was eventually forced to confront…
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As investors chase value-add shopping centers and other assets, they should redouble efforts to uncover hidden risks
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Are you prepared for the disappearance of LIBOR? The clock is winding down on the last days of LIBOR, forcing commercial real estate professionals to take a closer look at mortgages and loan docs that will be impacted when the key benchmark is phased out by the end of 2021. The demise of LIBOR (the…
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The highly competitive marketplace is pushing investors to shorten their due diligence timelines to win deals.
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