Commercial Real Estate: Understanding Investments

Product Details

This course introduces concepts critical to successfully working with commercial properties and clients. Residential real estate practitioners who want to learn more about this topic, as well as commercial specialists, will gain valuable insight and practical, hands-on knowledge.

As students learn new concepts and key commercial investment formulas, they are given an opportunity to apply them through the problems presented in the case studies.

Features include:

• Rent versus buy decisions
• Income analysis
• Contingency expenses - vacancy and repair considerations
• Capitalization rates
• Forecasting cash flows and Return on Investment (ROI)
• Case studies that include calculating Net Operating Income (NOI) on a multiuse building and a neighborhood strip center

Table of Contents

• Preface.
• About the Author.
• Acknowledgements.
• Chapter 1: Types of Investment Properties and Clients.
• Chapter 2: Principles of Investment.
• Chapter 3: Contingency Adjustments and Expenses.
• Chapter 4: Property Values.
• Chapter 5: Introduction to Financial Analysis.
• Chapter 6: The Value of Investments.
• Chapter 7: Forecasting Cash Flows.
• Answer Key.
• Glossary.
• Index.