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Preface | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Real Estate as an Investment: an Introduction | |
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Real estate � the global asset | |
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The global property investment universe | |
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Market players | |
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Property � its character as an asset class | |
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Conclusions | |
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Global property markets and real estate cycles | |
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Introduction | |
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The United States | |
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The UK property market � a performance history | |
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Continental Europe | |
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Asia | |
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Conclusions | |
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Market fundamentals and rent | |
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Introduction: the global property cycle | |
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The economics of rent | |
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Forecasting rents | |
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Conclusions | |
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Asset pricing, portfolio theory and real estate | |
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Risk, return and portfolio theory | |
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A property appraisal model | |
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The model components | |
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The required return for property assets | |
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Forecasting real estate returns | |
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Conclusions: a simple way to think about real estate returns | |
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Making Investment Decisions at the Property Level | |
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Basic valuation and investment analysis | |
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Introduction | |
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Estimating future cash flows | |
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The discount rate | |
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Conclusions | |
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Leasing | |
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Introduction | |
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Legal characteristics of leases | |
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The leasing process | |
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Important economic elements of a lease | |
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Lease economics and effective rent | |
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Conclusions | |
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Valuing commercial real estate: the unleveraged case | |
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Introduction: the investment opportunity | |
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Developing a pro-forma income statement | |
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Valuation using the cap rate | |
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Valuation using cash flows | |
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Applying discounted cash flow to analyze investment feasibility | |
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Conclusions | |
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Mortgages: an introduction | |
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Introduction | |
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What is a mortgage? | |
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The risks and returns of mortgage investment | |
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The fi nancial components of a mortgage | |
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The mortgage menu | |
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An introduction to mortgage mathematics | |
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Conclusions | |
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Commercial mortgage underwriting and leveraged feasibility analysis | |
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Introduction | |
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The mortgage underwriting process | |
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Investment feasibility with leverage: before-tax analysis | |
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Investment feasibility with leverage: after-tax analysis | |
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Global variations in real estate debt | |
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Conclusions | |
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Valuing the private real estate entity | |
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Introduction: the four quadrants and private equity | |
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Sponsor economics | |
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The life cycle of a private equity fund | |
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Fund economics | |
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Waterfall structures | |
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Private equity structures in the credit crisis | |
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Conclusions | |
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Real Estate Investment Structures | |
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Unlisted real estate funds | |
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Introduction to unlisted real estate funds | |
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The growth of the unlisted real estate fund market | |
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Unlisted fund structures | |
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Characteristics of unlisted real estate funds | |
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Liquidity and valuation issues | |
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The case for and against unlisted real estate funds | |
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Conclusions | |
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Public equity real estate | |
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Introduction | |
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REITs and REOCs | |
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Listed funds and mutual funds | |
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Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) | |
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The US REIT experience | |
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The global market | |
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REIT pricing | |
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Conclusions | |
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Real estate debt markets | |
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Introduction | |
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A brief history lesson | |
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Wall Street Act I: the early residential mortgage-backed securities market | |
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Wall Street Act II: senior-subordinated securities, the advent of structured finance | |
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Wall Street Act III: the evolution of structured finance | |
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Collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) | |
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Summary | |
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Mezzanine debt | |
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Cash-out refinancing | |
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All good things must come to an end | |
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Conclusions | |
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Real estate derivatives | |
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Introduction | |
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A short history of the real estate derivatives market | |
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Total return swaps | |
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Structured real estate index notes | |
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Traded property futures and options | |
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Pricing property derivatives | |
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Property derivatives: pros and cons | |
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Property derivatives: spin-offs | |
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Conclusions | |
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Creating a Global Real Estate Strategy | |
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International real estate investment: issues | |
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Introduction: the growth of cross-border real estate capital | |
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The global real estate market | |
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The case for international real estate investment | |
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The problems: an introduction | |
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Technical issues | |
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Formal barriers | |
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Informal barriers | |
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Conclusions | |
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Building the global portfolio | |
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The top-down portfolio construction process | |
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Strengths, weaknesses, constraints: portfolio analysis | |
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A pricing approach for international property | |
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Managing currency exposure and currency risk | |
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Portfolio construction | |
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Conclusions | |
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Performance measurement and attribution | |
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Performance measurement: an introduction | |
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Return measures | |
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Attribution analysis: sources of return | |
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Attribution analysis: the property level | |
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Attribution analysis: the portfolio level | |
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Attribution and portfolio management: alpha and beta | |
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Performance measurement and return attribution for property funds | |
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Conclusions | |
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Conclusions | |
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Why property? | |
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Liquid structures | |
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Unlisted funds | |
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International investment | |
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Best-practice real estate investment | |
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Pricing | |
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The future | |