Free Introduction to the Real Estate Business

• Size and scope of the U.S. commercial real estate market
• Commercial property type classes
• Types of real estate capital providers
• Sources of equity and debt
• Illustrative $10MM and $100MM transaction capital structure
• The two main ways to make money in real estate
• How capital is used to create value
• Dominant approaches for valuation of real estate

This is a slide presentation course with an associated multiple choice quiz. You will watch the video and, if you choose, complete the quiz and review the answers given when the quiz is automatically graded.

The video running time is 35 minutes. Watching all the video (replaying parts where desired) and completing the quiz and reviewing the answers will take approximately 45 to 55 minutes, depending on the individual.

Through the direct experience of REFM’s principals in commercial real estate transactions, and REFM’s ongoing consulting to industry practitioners across the U.S. for the last decade, we have developed and have continually refined “The REFM Way” of teaching financial modeling.

To enhance your learning and help you to efficiently build a practical skill set, we:

1. Always set the stage by providing the big picture first, and keep it at the fore with graphs and sparklines
2. Speak in plain language and define industry terms on an ongoing basis
3. Give you highly granular video chapter hyperlinks so you can find what you want quickly and easily.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will:

• Have gained a 30,000-foot view of the commercial real estate business
• Have learned the basics of how capital is used to create value in real estate
• Understand the rationale for the existence of multiple property valuation methods.