Real Estate Finance &Investments REE 4204 1. What are Investors' expectations over the holding period? 2. What are ground leases and how long are they held? 3. Who are Anchor tenants? 4. Types of properties that can receive Tax deduction for depreciation? 5. The different approaches to appraisals, especially the one used for investment property 6. What motivate investors to investing in income properties? 7. Know how to calculate taxable income, what marginal tax rate is and be able to distinguish the ranges. 8. What is Financial leverage. Distinguish the difference between positive & negative leverage. 9. Know what discount rate is whether it is better attractive to an investor to accept the project than the Internal Rate of return.(IRR) 10. What does the term absorption mean in commercial real estate? 11. Know at least 2 investment strategies. 12. Be able to compute adjustment based on the sales comparable approach to determine the value of the subject. 13. Where does lenders want DCR to be, as a cushion for repaying the loan? 14. Know what a non-recourse loan is. 15. How is Equity Dividend and Equity dividend rate calculated? 16. Know the formula for After Tax Cash Flow. 17. How to calculate Gross income multiplier? 18. Know the formula for debt coverage ratio. 19. How to compute interest only loan and P&I 20. Interest Only loans are Synonym with Bullet loans. 21. Know at least 2 types of Business Risks 22. The Legal requirements of the REIT