Essentials of Real Estate Finance
by: David Sirota, Doris Barrell
Topics include: affordable loan products, hard money mortgage, real estate mortgage trusts, direct sales comparison approach, equitable redemption period, junior financing, intervening liens, fiduciary lenders, financial fiduciaries, partial entitlement, real estate mortgage market, homebuyer education, uniform covenants, statutory redemption period, administered price system, leasehold mortgages, junior lender, junior loans, collateral property, strict foreclosure, mortgage lending activities, defaulted borrower, junior lienholders, private mortgage insurance companies, mortgage participation, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Answer Key, Federal Home Loan Bank, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, Truth-in-Lending Act, Federal Housing Administration, Office of Thrift Supervision, Farm Credit System, Property Address, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Government National Mortgage Association, Equal Credit Opportunity Act, Farmer Mac, Note Holder, Community Home, Department of Veterans Affairs, Social Security, National Guard, Mary Smith, Savings Association Insurance Fund, Federal Housing Finance Board, Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation, Bank Insurance Fund, Federal National Mortgage Association
Book Description -- User friendly and itneractive, this is the most thorough, practice oriented real estate finance text in print. A working knowledge of finance is a must for the successful licensee. Chapters 1 through 7 explain the concepts and issues of finance encountered with every sale while chapters 8 through 14 focus on the practical application of those concepts. New content ensures that students get the latest information from the world of real estate finance.
Essentials of Real Estate Finance -- This is a great book for anyone who is interested in learning real estate finance from the beginning without a finance background. The book provides readers with a wide coverage of fundamental finance principles. Readers will get a good sence of the current finance industry trends from this book. There are many easy to understand examples given under the "In Practice" narrative feature.
"Essentials", but not much more -- I expected something a bit more in-depth rather than a primer. There really isn't much here that wasn't covered in each of the, sort of generalized, real estate practice books I purchased for about the same price. I was severely disappointed with the short shrift given to most of the topics and pity those poor souls who paid list price for this book.
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