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Real Estate Economics

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This lecture covers the concepts of real estate funds, including the distinction between real estate assets and current accounts, the role of equity and foreign funds, the impact of adding a new property to the real estate fund, financing strategies, leverage effects, and typical financing conditions. The instructor also explains the importance of the creditor's demand for a minimum share of equity and the leverage effect on financing. The lecture concludes with a summary of the key points discussed.

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Soil and Real Estate Economics I

This course has been prepared by an economist attached to an architecture institute, who has over 20 years' experience of teaching the basics of economic analysis, particularly for real estate, to students who are not economists. The course will provide you with economic knowledge enabling you to understand many of the mechanisms of our market economies, such as competition, price formation, equilibria and disequilibria. It also provides a basic understanding of financial analysis. It is especially useful

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Finance

Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, which is the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of financial economics bridges the two). Finance activities take place in financial systems at various scopes, thus the field can be roughly divided into personal, corporate, and public finance.

Fund of funds

A "fund of funds" (FOF) is an investment strategy of holding a portfolio of other investment funds rather than investing directly in stocks, bonds or other securities. This type of investing is often referred to as multi-manager investment. A fund of funds may be "fettered", meaning that it invests only in funds managed by the same investment company, or "unfettered", meaning that it can invest in external funds run by other managers.

Private equity

In the field of finance, private equity (PE) is an investment fund, usually a limited partnership, which invests in and restructures private companies. A private-equity fund is both a type of ownership of assets (financial equity) and is a class of assets (debt securities and equity securities), which function as modes of financial management for operating private companies that are not publicly traded in a stock exchange.

Asset

In financial accounting, an asset is any resource owned or controlled by a business or an economic entity. It is anything (tangible or intangible) that can be used to produce positive economic value. Assets represent value of ownership that can be converted into cash (although cash itself is also considered an asset). The balance sheet of a firm records the monetary value of the assets owned by that firm. It covers money and other valuables belonging to an individual or to a business.

Fixed asset

A fixed asset, also known as long-lived assets or property, plant and equipment (PP&E), is a term used in accounting for assets and property that may not easily be converted into cash. Fixed assets are different from current assets, such as cash or bank accounts, because the latter are liquid assets. In most cases, only tangible assets are referred to as fixed. While IAS 16 (International Accounting Standard) does not define the term fixed asset, it is often colloquially considered a synonym for property, plant and equipment.

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