Overview
Real Estate Fundamentals Course Overview
This Real Estate Fundamentals course examines the core concepts of real estate lending. We will look at the different commercial real estate loan types and the factors real estate lenders must consider when lending for different properties.
This Real Estate Fundamentals course will also explore the timeline and process of real estate transactions and give you a practical demonstration of real estate credit analysis.
Real Estate Fundamentals Learning Objectives
Upon completing this course, you will be able to:
- Identify differences and similarities between commercial real estate loan types
- Interpret key underwriting parameters for commercial real estate lending
- Compare equity lending and cash flow lending
- Calculate lending ratios and appropriate loan amounts
- Explain the timeline and end-to-end process of a commercial real estate transaction
Real Estate Fundamentals is an Elective Course of CFI's CBCA® Program
CFI's Certified Banking & Credit Analyst (CBCA)® Program offers skills including credit evaluation, documentation, and review procedures. From beginners to advanced users, the CBCA® program is designed to help you become a world-class credit analyst.
Who Should Take This CBCA® Course?
This Real Estate Fundamentals course is perfect for any aspiring credit analyst that would like to make a career for themselves in the real estate lending sector. This course explores concepts that will be useful for beginner and intermediate level banking and real estate professionals, or business and finance students seeking to better understand commercial real estate financing.
The exercises and tools explored in this course will also be useful for any financial analyst that wishes to work in credit analysis, business banking, commercial banking and lending and other areas of credit evaluation as well as relationship management and risk management.
What You'll Learn
Become a certified Commercial Banking & Credit Analyst (CBCA)™
Real Estate Fundamentals is part of the Commercial Banking & Credit Analyst (CBCA)™ certification, which includes 36 courses.
- Skills Learned Financial Analysis, Credit Structuring, Risk Management
- Career Prep Commercial Banking, Credit Analyst, Private Lending
Path To Certification
Prep Courses
7 courses from beginner to intermediate level.
01OptionalCore Courses
16 courses from beginner to intermediate level.
02RequiredElective Courses
11 courses in advanced and intermediate levels.
03OptionalGet Certified
Submit your CBCA™ checklist and order your certificate.
04Required
Join Our Community
Get access to the Global Corporate Finance Society.
05Optional
How the Certification Works
What Our Students Say
The course was very fundamental and covered all the main everyday areas in real estate transactions and investments that are vital to brokers, consultants and investors.
Lee Anselmo Blackman
It was my first time studying the subject of real estate in such detail. The course material is presented in a very understandable way and I really enjoyed it. I will surely revert to it in the later stages of my business studies, no matter where. It is great that CFI allows two years of access to its course. Now I am eager to start a new real-estate related course within this CBCA Program.
Andrii Vasylchenko
Having previously underwritten multiple properties for clients, I took this course to better understand the process behind debt financing risk metrics. This course was excellent for this reason and I am glad I was able to improve my understanding of loan-to-value calculations.
Nicholas Quillan
Highly recommend.