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Real Estate Principles: A Value Approach demonstrates how value is central to virtually all real estate decision-making. Students using Ling and Archer should finish the course with a value-oriented framework and a set of valuation and decision making tools that can be applied in a variety of real-world situations. The key to making sound investment decision is to understand how property values are created, maintained, increased or destroyed. Since the launch of Real Estate Principles: A Value Approach, significant and lasting changes have come upon the world of real estate. This is very true in real estate finance and capital sources where most of the traditional lenders have been transformed or displaced, giving way to a radically different set of players in mortgage finance. There has been change with profound and far-reaching implications in a world where it is understandable that property values can go down as well as up. This realization will color every aspect of real estate investment, finance and transactions for the foreseeable future.
Part 1: Setting the Stage
1. The Nature of Real Estate and Real Estate Markets
Part 2: Legal and Regulatory Determinants of Value
2. Legal Foundations to Value
3. Conveying Real Property Interests
4. Government Controls and Real Estate Markets
Part 3: Market Valuation and Appraisal
5. Market Determinants of Value
6. Forecasting Ownership Benefits and Value: Market Research
7. Valuation Using the Sales Comparison and Cost Approaches
8. Valuation Using the Income Approach
Part 4: Financing Home Ownership
9. Real Estate Finance: The Laws and Contracts
10. Residential Mortgage Types and Borrower Decisions
11. Sources of Funds for Residential Mortgages
Part 5: Brokering and Closing the Transaction
12. Real Estate Brokerage and Listing Contracts
13. Contracts for Sale and Closing
Part 6: Time, Opportunity Cost, and Value Decisions
14. The Effects of Time and Risk on Value
15. Mortgage Calculations and Decisions
Part 7: Financing and Investing in Commercial Real Estate
16. Commercial Mortgage Types and Decisions
17. Sources of Commercial Debt and Equity Capital
18. Investment Decisions: Ratios
19. Investment Decisions: NPV and IRR
20. Income Taxation and Value
Part 8: Creating and Maintaining Value
21. Enhancing Value through Ongoing Management
22. Leases and Property Types
23. Development: The Dynamics of Creating Value
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