Real Estate Funding and Finance

This course provides you with an in-depth, critical understanding of the financial aspects of international real estate including methods of financing, products in real estate finance, trading mechanisms, analysis of securities and securitisation.

This course will include:

• real estate investment analysis and financial leverage
• real options theory applied to real estate
• real estate investment performance and portfolio considerations
• fixed and flexible rate mortgage loans and mortgage payment issues
• debt securitisation
• tax transparent real estate investment vehicles
• financial markets, trading mechanisms, margins and markets
• security analysis
• econometrics for real estate investment and finance.

CONTENT

• Explain and evaluate the different methods of financing real estate investment and development
• Explain the important of financing, and evaluate the implications of different financing methods and mechanisms
• Explain the nature of the financial markets
• explain the relationships between different economic sectors, and how real estate finance interacts with other parts of the financial system and wider national and international macro-economies
• Explain, select and apply statistical and econometric techniques of analysis to real estate financial issues, and interpret and draw conclusions from the results.
• Teaching and learning will take place using a flexible programme of lectures, workshops, seminars and tutorials.

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.