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Graduate Catalog 2020-2021 
    
Graduate Catalog 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

BUSI 520 - Real Estate Finance and Investments 3 hours


This course consists of analyses of real estate capital markets, both debt and equity; institutional sources of capital, both public and private; legal aspects of real estate finance; underwriting; and real estate capital structure. Real estate investment includes analyses of risk and return, tax strategies, and disposition. Fundamentals of real estate finance include sources of funds, alternative financing instruments and mortgage securitization, analysis emphasizing cash flow projections, yield, risk for residential and commercial real estate, evaluating the role of financing and leverage in real estate investment analysis, valuation of financial structure, sources of equity financing, and the operation of secondary mortgage markets.