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Lecture

Real Estate Investment Analysis

In course

AR-491: Land and real estate economics

Ce cours basé sur un MOOC prépare à l'analyse du contexte économique du projet de construction : acquisition du terrain, prix fonciers, prix immobiliers, prix du logement (locatif et en propriété), dans le cadre urbain. À la fin du cours, l'étudiant.e comp ...

Description

This lecture covers the concept of real estate investment analysis, focusing on topics such as property value, debt, interest, and capital. The instructor explains how amortization impacts property value and debt, clarifying the relationship between cash flow and property wealth.

Instructor

Philippe Thalmann

Philippe Thalmann was born in Lausanne in 1963. He graduated in Economics from the University of Lausanne in 1984, where he earned a postgraduate diploma in Economics in 1986. Mr. Thalmann entered the doctoral program in Economics of Harvard University (Cambridge, U.S.A.) in 1986, which he completed with a Ph.D. in 1990. His dissertation is entitled: "Essays in the Economics of Government Revenues and Spending". Returning to Switzerland, he was hired as an assistant professor first at the University of Geneva (teachings in Public Economics), then at the University of Lausanne (teachings in Econometrics and Introductory Economics). Since 1994, Mr. Thalmann is associate professor of Economics as the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne.

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Ontological neighbourhood

Business

Finance: Corporate finance

Economics

Microeconomics: Economic systems

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