European Real Estate Investment and Finance »

José Luis Suárez is Professor of Financial Management at IESE Business School.

This book begins with an overview of the residential and commercial real estate market; investment and rental market, housing policies, risks and returns and continues with a study of current real estate investors, and the indirect investments in real estate through listed companies. Finally, there is an analysis of the financial real estate market, for the consumer and the developer, and the new products which have been developed for them.

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Introduction 1

1 The Residential Sector 8

2 Commercial Real Estate 50

3 Direct Property Investment 82

4 Indirect Investment in Real Estate: Listed Companies and Funds 113

5 Real Estate Financing: Residential Mortgage Markets 152

6 Financial Institutions' Funding for Mortgage Lending Purposes 179

Index 206