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Real Estate 611 - Real Estate Finance (3 credit hours)
Real Estate Finance covers the institutions and instruments that are used to finance residential and commercial properties. This course provides essential knowledge and skills for students who are interested in a career as a commercial banker, mortgage banker, or an analyst or investor in mortgage-related securities. At the same time, any student who will work in the real estate industry will find this course a valuable addition to his or her plan of study.
Topics in residential finance include fixed-rate, variable-rate, and alternative mortgage instruments, financial analysis and decision making, residential mortgage underwriting, mortgage market regulations, primary and secondary mortgage market structure and institutions, and mortgage-backed securities. For commercial properties, topics covered include permanent financing of income properties, financing land- and building-development projects, underwriting commercial mortgages, REITs and other sources of commercial-property finance.
This course has been approved by the Kansas Real Estate commission for 9 hours of elective continuing education credit for salespersons licensees and 6 hours of elective continuing education credit for brokers licensees.
Prerequisite: Finance 340
Recent course website: Dr. Longhofer,
Spring 2008 |
Courses for Undergraduate or Graduate Credit
