What is Cube and how does it support real estate financial planning in Excel and Google Sheets?
Cube is a no-code FP&A platform that integrates directly into Excel and Google Sheets, plus Slack and Teams, across Mac and PC. Real estate finance teams can keep their existing spreadsheet workflows while gaining centralized data access, one-click syncing, and automated reporting across properties, portfolios, and entities.
How does Cube help with property- or asset-level performance tracking and forecasting?
Cube brings together financial, operational, and occupancy data into a centralized, multi-dimensional model. This enables visibility into rent rolls, NOI, CapEx, and lease-level metrics across individual properties or portfolios, allowing for accurate forecasting and performance tracking at the asset level.
Can Cube support scenario planning for leasing activity, interest rates, or acquisition strategies?
Yes. Cube enables multi-scenario modeling for factors like lease-up timelines, rent escalations, refinancing options, or acquisition plans. Finance teams can model and compare scenarios (e.g., base case vs. rising rates) and understand the impact on cash flow, returns, or capital structure all from the spreadsheet.
How does Cube enable driver-based planning for real estate finance teams?
Cube links operational drivers like occupancy rates, rent per square foot, TIs, or maintenance costs directly to your financial models. This supports granular forecasting of rental income, OpEx, capital expenditures, and profitability at the property, asset class, or portfolio level.
What data integrations does Cube offer for real estate FP&A teams?
Cube integrates with ERPs, property management systems, leasing platforms, and CRMs. It provides no-code data ingestion, mapping, and transformation across multiple entities, property types, and currencies, eliminating the need for manual consolidation and complex formulas.
How secure is Cube for large business service organizations?
Built on AWS, Cube is SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant. It features granular access controls, detailed audit trails, versioning, and encryption at rest and in transit, meeting the strict security standards of enterprise environments.
What real estate KPIs and variance insights can Cube support?
Cube’s Smart Analysis helps track key real estate KPIs like NOI, rent collections, operating margins, vacancy, and lease expiration. It surfaces plan vs. actual variances, highlights anomalies, and provides root cause analysis directly in Excel, Google Sheets, or Slack/Teams.
How does Cube support collaboration between finance, asset management, and operations?
Cube enables cross-functional collaboration with shared templates, workflow management, and version control. Asset managers, operators, and finance teams can work in the same spreadsheet models while maintaining governance, transparency, and alignment in real time.
Does Cube support headcount and workforce planning for real estate companies?
Absolutely. Cube includes workforce planning tools for corporate, on-site, and property-level staff. You can model staffing costs, allocations by asset, outsourced services, and hiring plans integrated into your financial models and synced with HR or payroll systems.