This overview is a guide to the Banking & Finance content within the Methods of investing in real estate subtopic, with links to the appropriate materials.
The term ‘real estate finance’ can cover a variety of types of transaction, including what is considered to be traditional real estate finance, whereby a lender or group of lenders provides a loan to a borrower to assist the borrower with:
purchasing a property or portfolio of properties, and/or
developing a property or group of properties
A loan structure is by far the most commonly used method of investing in real estate. However, other less common structures such as Islamic finance and residential and commercial mortgage-backed securitisations can also be used as a financing technique for real estate finance.
Other real estate investment structures include:
sale and leaseback
real estate investment trusts (REITs), and
property derivatives
Real estate finance in the form of lending against the cash flow generated by a property is thought of as
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