Fundamentals Of Commercial Real Estate Investment

This course provides a framework to understand the commercial real estate (CRE) investment process.

What you'll learn
Identify and gain a basic understanding of the CRE investment process.
Explore, review and analyze the four primary property types; office, retail, industrial and apartment.
Discover the various types of leases on CRE properties.
Identify how to calculate and analyze CRE investment returns using the capitalization rate, band of investment return, IRR and NPV.
Discover the use, benefits and detriment of financial leverage in CRE.
Recognize and summarize the risks inherent in CRE investment.
Requirements
A basic overview of real estate and a basic understanding of finance and investments.
Description
This course provides a basic framework for the commercial real estate (CRE) investment process. You will learn about the use, benefits and detriments of financial leverage and summarize the risks inherent in CRE investment.The four primary property types including; office, retail, industrial and apartment and the types of leases on those properties are reviewed and analyzed. CRE investment returns are discussed and analyzed including the capitalization rate, band of investment return, internal rate of return and net present value.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction to Commercial Real Estate Investment

Lecture 2 Acquisition Process

Lecture 3 Investment Benefits and Issues

Lecture 4 Commercial Real Estate Financing

Lecture 5 Property Types and Leases

Lecture 6 Property Management

Lecture 7 Commercial Real Estate Returns

Lecture 8 Commercial Real Estate Risk

Section 2: Supporting Materials

Lecture 9 Slides: Introduction to Commercial Real Estate Investment

Lecture 10 Introduction to Commercial Real Estate Investment Glossary/Index

Section 3: REVIEW AND TEST

Anyone interested in Finance, Accounting, or related fields.,Anyone interested in Real Estate or related fields.