Learning Real Estate Finance, 1st Edition

Product Details

This new edition teaches the beginning real estate student the skills and knowledge set necessary for success in real estate. The primary emphasis is residential finance with some coverage of commercial real estate with solid coverage of the essential tools of finance including time value of money. 256pp.

Table of Contents:

• Part 1: About Real Estate Finance
• Chapter 1. Real Estate and the U.S. Economy
• Chapter 2. Flow and Sources of Real Estate Funds
• Chapter 3. The Secondary Mortgage Market
• Chapter 4. Interest Rates and Risk
• Chapter 5. The Time Value of Money
• Part 2: The Instruments of Residential Real Estate Finance
• Chapter 6. The Early History of Residential Finance and Creation of the Fixed-Rate Mortgage
• Chapter 7. Instruments of Real Estate Finance
• Chapter 8. The Fixed-Rate Mortgage
• Chapter 9. Alternative Mortgage Instruments
• Part 3: The Loan Process
• Chapter 10. The Borrower
• Chapter 11. The Collateral
• Chapter 12. Closing and Insurance
• Chapter 13. Modern Finance
• Part 4: Government Regulations and Programs
• Chapter 14. Federal Regulation of Mortgage Lending
• Chapter 15. Federal Subsidies and Grants for Housing
• Glossary
• Index.