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Cash on cash return calculator.

Enter the net operating income, the price and the loan. See the return on the cash you put in, and how it changes with the financing.

Your deal

$480,000
$0$1,500,000
Rental income minus operating expenses.
$6,000,000
$1,000,000$12,000,000
The price you pay.
65%
0%100%
The part of the price the loan covers.
6.50%
0.00%15.00%
The yearly rate.
30 years
1 years40 years
Years to repay.

Your result

Cash on cash

8.77%

=$184,192$2,100,000
Loan
$3,900,000
Annual debt service
$295,808

If the financing changes

The rate moves by 1 point and the loan by 10 points of the price. The outlined cell is your deal. Tints follow the return: error tint for negative, neutral near zero, success tint for positive, in two strengths.
55% loan65% loan75% loan
5.50% rate9.45%10.20%11.56%
6.50% rate8.51%Your case8.77%9.25%
7.50% rate7.52%7.27%6.83%
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One page: your inputs, the return, the loan figures, the financing table and the formula.

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How it is computed

  • Cash on cash=Cash flow before taxCash invested

    The year of cash flow as a share of the cash you put in.

  • Payment=Loan × r1 − (1 + r)^−n

    The level monthly payment, where r is the monthly rate and n the number of months. Annual debt service is twelve payments.

  • Cash flow before tax=Net operating income−Annual debt service

    What the property pays you after the loan payments.

Cash on cash is the equity dividend rate in Appraisal Institute usage. The payment is the standard level payment amortization formula.

What counts as cash invested.

The cash you put in at purchase: the price minus the loan, plus closing costs if you enter them. The loan itself is not cash you invested.

What cash on cash leaves out.

It looks at one year of cash flow before tax against the cash invested. It does not count the sale, the loan balance you pay down or income taxes, so it is not a total return.

Questions.

Is cash on cash the same as return on investment?
No. It measures one year of cash flow before tax against the cash invested. It leaves out the sale, the loan paydown and taxes.
Why does a larger loan change the return?
A larger loan means less cash invested but a larger debt service. The table shows both effects at once for nearby loan shares and rates.
What if debt service is larger than the net operating income?
Cash flow before tax is negative, so the return is negative. The result says so instead of hiding it.

Next in the sequence

  • Net operating income calculator

    Work out the yearly income first.

  • Cap rate calculator

    Turn the income into a rate and test a price.

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