Introduction to Real Estate Finance and Investment

Course Summary:Developed for non-finance professionals, this course will give you a broad and solid introduction to the basics of real estate finance and investment. The course will take you from a review of basic financial concepts and analytical tools to an examination of how real estate investment opportunities are analyzed and financed.

You will begin with a review of basic financial concepts and analytical tools. After that, you will examine how real estate investment opportunities are analyzed, and how they are financed. The webinar will acquaint you with fundamental real estate finance terms and concepts, including the time value of money, risk/return tradeoff, capital stack, financial leverage, and waterfall structure.

Using examples and Excel spreadsheets, you will see demonstrations of important calculations in real estate finance and investment, such as internal rate of return (IRR), mortgage amortization, and property valuation.