Synopses & Reviews
Property and Money is a simple guide to the investment and financial aspects of commercial property. Putting property into its financial context, it seeks to bridge the world of the surveyor and property developer and the investment and financial markets of the City of London.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Characteristics of property: What we mean by yield: Why values rise and fall: Valuing future rental increases: Evaluating the asking price: Calculating the actual return: Valuating leaseholds: What land is worth: Measuring property performance: When valuations are needed: How accurate are valuations?: Valuing from the armchair: Property financing constraints: Investors and traders: Property and property company shares: Foreword to the figurework: Tackling property company accounts: On and off balance sheet: Classes of capital and capital issues: Calculating with convertibles: The profit and loss account: Profit and loss refinements : Untangling a property trader : Off balance sheet traders: Cash flow before profit : Launches on the stock market: Property company takeovers : Categories of finance : Financing with commercial paper : Multiplying the financing options : Hedging interest rate risks: Borrowing for the long term : Yields and redemption yields: Problems of security: Tapping the euromarkets: Warrants, options and complex convertibles: Project loans for development