The Complete Guide to Financing Real Estate Developments

Get Answers to All Your Questions About Financing Real Estate Development -- and Tailor a Finance Package that Meets Specific Your Needs

The Completee Guide to Financing Real Estate Developments offers a detailed roadmap to navigate the complex process of financing small to large-scale real estate projects, such as office buildings, apartment complexes, and hotels.

Real estate expert Ira Nachem explores the pros and cons of large versus small institutions; how to structure and present a loan proposal, the approval and closing processes; the truth about appraisals, guarantees, insurance and lien law; financial and physical bonuses and constraints, environmental issues and many other topics.

Nachem presents in-depth information and explanations that answers questions on:
Who the Commercial Real Estate Lender Really Is

What Information Should the Borrower Produce

How a Workable Budget is Created

How the Lender Evaluates a Borrower

What the True Value of an Appraisal Is

What goes into a Lender's Loan Presentation

What to Expect at a Closing

What Key Legal Documents are Most Important

What the True Value of a Guarantee Is

How the Borrower and Lender Prepare for the Funding Process

What Is involved in Loan Administration After the Closing

What Is the View from the Borrower's Perspective

What Are some of the Constraints and Incentives to Development

What Are the Values and Risks of Insurance and Bonding

What Is the Reason for Title Insurance and how does it work

What Are the Complexities of Lien Law and how does it work

How Is the Loan Eventually Repaid

What Real Estate Math Is Essential for the Professional

How Important Are Environmental Issues

How Can the Lender Find New Loan Prospects

What Are the Risks and Rewards of Loan Participations




Featuring a wide range of helpful examples and illustrations, The Complete Guide to Financing Real Estate Developments covers many of the day-to-day realities faced in the real estate industry including the differing perspectives of lenders and borrowers, their personal pressures, personalities and politics, and much more.