Description
An updated edition of Clauretie/Sirmans, Real Estate Finance, 7e is now available! The goal of this market-leading text is to promote a greater understanding of how real estate financial markets work. The authors blend theory with practice applying the theoretical aspects of financial economics to explain how Real Estate financial institutions and markets have developed and evolved to their present state, and why they take the forms they do.
Topic Updates Include:
New chapter on Federal Regulation of Financial Institutions related to the Mortgage Market
New topics on Regulation Z and the Dodd-Frank Act
Updated historical data to reflect the recent past
Revised REIT requirements
Updated to include more recent data on sources of funds, especially CMBS
Table of Contents I. Finance and Real Estate
1. Real Estate Finance: An Overview
2. Money, Credit, and the Determination of Interest Rates
3. Finance Theory and Real Estate II. Residential Real Estate Finance
4. Residential Mortgage Financing in the United States
5. Fixed-Rate Mortgage Mechanics
6. Alternative Mortgage Instruments
7. Federal Regulation of Financial Institutions Related to the Mortgage Market
8. Federal Housing Policies: Part I
9. Federal Housing Policies: Part II
10. The Secondary Mortgage Market.
11. Mortgage Derivative Securities and Structured Finance
12. Controlling Default Risk Through Borrower Qualification. Loan Underwriting and Contractual Relationships.
13. Loan Origination. Processing. and Closing.
14. Mortgage Default Insurance, Foreclosure, Title Insurance. III. COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE FINANCE.
15. Value, Leverage, and Capital Structure.
16. Federal Taxation and Real Estate Finance.
17. Sources of Funds for Commercial Real Estate Properties.
18. Acquisition. Development. and Construction Financing.
19. Permanent Financing of Commercial Real Estate Properties.
20. Ownership Structures for Financing and Holding Real Estate. IV. SPECIAL TOPICS IN REAL ESTATE FINANCE.
21. Real Estate in a Portfolio Context. 22. Liability. Agency Problems. Fraud. and Ethics in Real Estate Finance.