Identifying Risks and Opportunities in Commercial Real Estate

• How to lose money in real estate
• The spectrum of risk in CRE investing
• The tactics of risk mitigation
• Structuring commercial real estate leases to mitigate risk
• Risks common to all assets
• Risks unique to ground-up development
• Risks unique to investing across borders
• The real estate cycle
• Market crashes

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 40 minutes. Watching all the video (replaying parts where desired) and completing the quiz and reviewing the answers will take approximately 45 to 60 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 general commercial real estate principles and the specific practice of financial modeling.

To enhance your learning and help you to efficiently build a practical knowledge base, we:

1. Always set the stage by providing the big picture first
2. Speak in plain language and define industry terms on an ongoing basis
3. Draw with “ink” on the slides to help you follow the lesson and grasp important points
4. 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 holistic understanding of the ideas of risk and opportunity as they relate to commercial real estate investing domestically and internationally
• Have learned about risk mitigation tactics employed in practice in the business
• Have an appreciation for the reality that some risks must simply be accepted.