Real Estate Finance

"Real Estate Finance provides the fuel that keeps the industry running…"

The real estate finance business field is extremely diverse and complex. Employers range from pension funds, insurance companies, and private-equity firms, to commercial banks, private banks, and credit unions. Job titles range from investment banker, to mortgage bankers and brokers, and underwriters. Real estate financing is not just for home loans and home equity lines of credit. Major commercial loan business is done with refinancing old loans, new construction loans, permanent financing on leased projects, mezzanine debt, and acquisition loans. Typical job functions in the field involve consulting potential borrowers and originating loans, servicing existing loans by making sure payments are being made and taxes and insurance are paid, securitizing pools of loans to be sold in the secondary MBS and CMBS markets, and much more. Loan underwriters evaluate deals to determine loan amounts, creditworthiness of borrowers, and income potential of projects. Lenders usually specialize by product type including single family residential, multi-family, retail, office, industrial, and more. Lenders may also specialize by loan amount.

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Related Job categories:

Underwritting-RE Loans, Mortgage Brokerage, Mortgage Origination, Corporate Finance/CFO, Financial Analyst

Organizations for Real Estate Finance Professionals:

Skills Required:

  • Strong Interpersonal and Sales Abilites
  • Strong analytical skills
  • Proper Valuation and Underwritting Skills
  • Strong Financial Modelling Skills
  • Microsoft Excel

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Real Estate Finance Professional Reading and Resources

  • "Affordable Housing Finance"
  • "Apartment Finance Today"
  • "JOURNAL OF PROPERTY INVESTMENT AND FINANCE"
  • "JOURNAL OF PROPERTY INVESTMENT AND FINANCE"by Brueggeman and Fisher
  • "JOURNAL OF REAL ESTATE FINANCE AND ECONOMICS"
  • "REAL ESTATE ECONOMICS"
  • "The Wall Street Journal"

Industry Segments

  • Bachelor’s Degree with concentration in finance, business, real estate (Minimum)
  • Masters Degree in Finance or MBA preferred
  • CCIM: Certified Commercial Investment Member
  • CLO – Certified Loan Officer designated by MBAA
  • CMCP – Certified Mortgage Compliance Professional designated by MBAA
  • CMS - Certified Mortgage Servicer designated by MBAA
  • CMT – Certified Mortgage Technologist designated by MBAA
  • CQAP – Certified Quality Assurance Professional designated by MBAA
  • CLBB – Certified Lender Business Banker designated by ABA

Looking to the Future

The future of the real estate finance industry is hard to determine. The financial crisis of late 2008 has brought new levels of scrutiny to the industry and increased the underwriting standards for most lenders. Moving forward, solid underwriting will be of top priority in that lax underwriting is seen as a cause for the high amount of loans defaulting. Several lending tools such as commercial mortgage back securities and collateralized debt obligations that were so prevalent may not find their way back into the market due to the problems involved with lenders writing bad loans, collecting fees, and moving the loans off their books by selling them into the secondary mortgage markets. Until credit comes back, and transactions start to occur once again, most of the finance industry will be in a standstill. Yet those looking to enter the industry should remain hopeful in that the real estate industry is cyclical and eventually credit will come back, deals will start to happen and lenders will once again find business.

Top Real Estate Finance Companies

  • Prudential Real Estate Investors
  • USAA Real Estate Company
  • Goldman Sachs
  • Bank of America
  • Blackstone
  • Pension Funds (CALPERS)

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