HADM 4230 - Hospitality Real Estate Finance

Fall, spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: HADM 4200 or HADM 3210; for fall, with instructor permission students may take HADM 3210 conccurrently. For spring, student may not take prerequisites concurrently. Co-meets with HADM 6210 in the spring. Elective. Graduate students must enroll in HADM 6210.

D. Lebret, D. Quan.

Focuses on real estate financing for hospitality-oriented projects. Lectures address the following topics: methods of measuring rates of return; feasibility and appraisal processes; equity and debt financing vehicles to include joint ventures, limited partnerships, construction mortgages, and participating, convertible, and seller-financed mortgages; forms of operating agreements to include management contracts, leases, and franchises; and trends in international hotel franchising. Presentations by hospitality industry real estate practitioners tie course material to current industry practices.