A Special Note for Companies that Own Real Estate
Real Estate that is owned by the business (it’s on the balance sheet) typically is separated from the value of the business as a non-operating asset.
CrossCheck® is not designed to value real estate assets as part of the business. If real estate comprises a significant portion of your business, then we do not recommend that you use CrossCheck® to estimate your business's value. However, if you have a reasonable estimate of the value of the real estate, then you may use CrossCheck® choose to proceed, the way we treat real estate's economic impact on your business's value is to substitute a fair market value (FMV) lease payment for any mortgage payments, depreciation, interest, taxes, etc. In short, we develop a value for your business based on its operations, not the real estate used by it. To the business value you would then add the FMV of your real estate to calculate the business's combined value. A good way to think about this is you may decide to buy a business, but lease the property from the seller. The business operations have an intrinsic value that typically is separated from the real estate used by the business.