Every year billions of dollars are loaned for commercial real estate - from towering office buildings to multifamily housing, from hotels and hospitals to factories and shopping malls. Unfortunately, there currently exists no set of standard guidelines for underwriting these large variety of properties. Essentially, ten different underwriters could give ten different numbers for the value of a given piece of commercial real estate. The Handbook of First Mortgage Underwriting is the first comprehensive set of underwriting guidelines for commercial property. This handbook provides very detailed, step-by-step guidelines for a full and accurate underwriter report. The author provides numerous forms and checklists for everything an underwriter needs: Complete site inspection reports; Cash flow underwriting process and analysis; Borrower credit analysis; Borrower financial analysis; Detailed data collection forms; In addition, there is an entire chapter dedicated to third party reports. The book details what third party reports should contain, how they should be conducted, and how they should be used by the underwriter. Third part reports include: appraisals, property condition assessmen

In Introduction to Mortgages & Mortgage Backed Securities, author Richard Green combines current practices in real estate capital markets with financial theory so readers can make intelligent business decisions. After a behavioral economics chapter on the nature of real estate decisions, he explores mortgage products, processes, derivatives, and international practices. By focusing on debt, his book presents a different view of the mortgage market than is commonly available, and his primer on fixed-income tools and concepts ensures that readers understand the rich content he covers. Including commercial and residential real estate, this book explains how the markets work, why they collapsed in 2008, and what countries are doing to protect themselves from future bubbles. Green's expertise illuminates both the fundamentals of mortgage analysis and the international paradigms of products, models, and regulatory environments. Written for buyers of real estate, not mortgage lenders Balances theory with increasingly complex practices of commercial and residential mortgage lending Emphasizes international practices, changes caused by the 2008-11 financial crisis, and the behavioral aspects of mortgage decision making

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