Real Estate Finance

This course covers financing and leverage in real estate investment, alternative financing types, financial structure valuation, equity sources, and mortgage securitization.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Sean Flynn

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.50 GPA, 60.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.38 GPA, 72.5% A/AB (n=40 letter grades); Spring 2026: 2.50 GPA, 33.3% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Analyze the basic financial aspects of multifamily and commercial real estate.

  • Construct and analyze multifamily and commercial real estate pro forma cash flow statements and property valuations.

  • Apply the abstracting process of the income elements and critical operational components of multifamily and commercial property leases to quantify the financial impact to the property pro forma cash flow statement.

  • Analyze the financial aspects of multifamily and commercial debt and equity capital returns.

  • Articulate multifamily and commercial real estate property and market characteristics, supply and demand drivers, and differences between the various property types.

Source: UW Guide

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  • Graduate/professional standing
REALEST 710 used by

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  • Graduate/professional standing

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Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.50 GPA, 60.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.38 GPA, 72.5% A/AB (n=40 letter grades); Spring 2026: 2.50 GPA, 33.3% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Financing and leverage in real estate investment analysis
  • Mortgage securitization and secondary mortgage markets
  • Multifamily and commercial real estate property and market characteristics

Skills

  • Constructing and analyzing pro forma cash flow statements and property valuations for multifamily and commercial real estate.
  • Evaluating financing and leverage, identifying alternative financing types, and understanding mortgage securitization and secondary mortgage markets.

Grades

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REALEST 710 · Spring 2027

Real Estate Finance

Recorded 2026-10-14
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