Tuesday, April 22, 2008

04/22/08

Lecture:

  1. Final exam review
    1. Pay attention to terms at the end of the chapt.
    2. Chapt 10, inception of an idea
      1. Back of the envelope pro-forma
      2. One question in reference to a specifice project
    3. Chapt 11
      1. Environmental scanning
      2. Focus groups
      3. NGT
      4. Delphi
      5. Market research
        1. Micro trends
        2. Swat analysis
        3. Due diligence
        4. Absorption rates
      6. Refinement of the idea
      7. Sectors, liens, GIS, ETJ, Actual theory
    4. Chapt. 13
      1. Roles of the public sector
      2. Different options of the public sector to guide development
      3. Abbreviations
        1. PUD
    5. Chapt 14
      1. Meshing public and private roles
      2. RFP
      3. RFQ
      4. UDAG
      5. Municipal bonds
    6. Chapt. 15
      1. Affordable housing
      2. CDVG
      3. FHA
      4. FIRREA
      5. Freddie mac
      6. Ginnie mae
    7. Chapt. 16
      1. Planning analysis
      2. Take out loans
      3. Venture capital
      4. Feasibility analysis
      5. Enterprise concept
    8. Chapt 17
      1. Collecting validating information
      2. Bottom up approach
      3. Top down approach
      4. Forecasts
      5. Consensus forecasts
    9. Chapt. 18
      1. Don't worry about first part of chapt.
      2. Second part
        1. Data sets
        2. Prominent players
        3. Kinds of services offered
    10. Chapt. 19
      1. Mezzanine financing
      2. Critical path
      3. Ecosystems
      4. Study glossary terms
    11. Chapt. 20
      1. Construction managers
      2. Draw request
      3. GC
      4. Lien waivers
      5. Mechanical liens
    12. Chapt. 21
      1. Enterprise concept
      2. Portfolio management
    13. Chapt. 22
      1. Marketing and sales
      2. Swat
      3. Target market
      4. Promotions positioning and marketing

         
         

       
       

     
     

     
     

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04/22/08

Lecture:

  1. Construction, completion and formal opening
    1. Construction
      1. Coordination
      2. Collaboration
      3. Supervision - on-site management
    2. Project manager
      1. An architect
      2. In-house construction professional
      3. In-house engineer
      4. A person experienced in the type of project
    3. Marketing manager
      1. Marketing - on going activity
      2. Feedback to the development team
    4. Financial officer
      1. Manages the project budget
      2. Pays the bills
      3. Ensure compliance with plan's economic performance
      4. Liason with construction and permanent lender
    5. Property manager
      1. Long-term manageability
      2. Design issues
      3. Tenant concerns - service levels
      4. Record keeping procedures
      5. Warranties
    6. Building the structure
      1. Developer
      2. Architect
      3. Contractor
      4. Subcontractors
      5. Inspectors
    7. Drawing down the construction loan
      1. 5 to 10% retention
      2. Subcontractors submit invoices for work completed (1 week to 1 month)
      3. Contractor compiles and reviews and sends to the developer
      4. Architect or project manager verifies
      5. Invoice sent to financial officer who compiles added costs and submits to the construction lender
    8. Construction loan risk control
      1. Funds dispersed through title companies
      2. Subcontractors exchange lien waivers for draw checks
      3. Mechanic liens
        1. Subcontractor can take property and sell if they are not paid.
    9. Building out tenant space
      1. Leasing reserve
      2. Floor and ceiling loan amounts
    10. Completion and formal opening
      1. Training the operations staff
      2. Connecting the utilities
      3. Beginning on site operations
      4. Final marketing
      5. Grand opening
      6. Tenants move in
      7. Transition in financing - construction to permanent loan
    11. Risk control
      1. Retainage and performance bonds
      2. Union relations
        1. San antonio is non-union
      3. Architectural supervision and project management
      4. Insurance coverage
      5. PERT and CPM
      6. Net leases, expense stops, escalations
    12. Definitions
      1. Property management - day to day operation of the asset
      2. Asset management - several different properties with different managers
    13. The enterprise concept
      1. Real estate as a living breathing business
      2. Need to redefine and defend market position
      3. Market is ongoing
      4. Seek new niches in the marketplace
    14. Graaskamp's real estate feasibility process
      1. What is the it that we are doing?
      2. For whom are we doing it?
      3. To whom are we doing it?
      4. Will it fly?
    15. The real estate management triad
      1. Property manager
      2. Asset manager
      3. Portfolio manager
    16. Property manager
      1. Tenant relations and retention
      2. Rent collection
      3. Control of operating expense
        1. PM can raise the rent
        2. Replace systems with more efficient systems (HVAC)
      4. Financial reporting and record keeping
      5. Maintenance of property
      6. Planning capital expenditures
        1. Improvements to grounds common areas
      7. Crisis management
    17. Asset manager
      1. Develops property strategic plan
      2. Hold/sale analysis
        1. Review of when to sell or keep the property using the return on equity equation or condition of the property
      3. Reviews opportunities
      4. Monitors property performance
      5. Manages and evaluates the property manager
      6. Assists in tenant relations
    18. Portfolio manager
      1. Communicates with investors and sets portfolio goals and investment criteria
      2. Defines and implements portfolio investment strategy
      3. Oversees acquisitions, dispositions
      4. Accountable for portfolio performance
      5. Client reporting and cash management
    19. From property development to property management
      1. Development period - 1 year +
      2. Stabilization - project physically complete and has obtained fair share of market
      3. Developers profit - difference between the developers total cost and market value of the property at the end of the development period
    20. Handing off to asset management
      1. Transfer package
      2. Description of the status of the project at transfer
      3. Comparative analysis of actuaal results versus pro forma
      4. Value of the project
      5. Calculate profit
    21. Property strategic planning process
      1. Property life cycle
    22. Define and analyzie property problems and opportunities
      1. Review major decision points
        1. Hold or sell
        2. Rehabilitate
        3. Change the use of the building
        4. Change the tenant mix
      2. Implement the plan
    23. The americans with disabilities act 1990
      1. Provide persons with disabilities with access equal to, or similar to, that available to the general public
    24. The americans with disabilities act july 26, 1990
      1. Provide clear and comprehensive national mandate to end discrimination against individuals with disabilities
    25. Marketing and sales
    26. Marketing plan and budget
      1. Marketing plan
      2. Develop a list of specific activities and assign costs
      3. Total and refine
      4. 2nd method
      5. How much
        1. 6 -7% generally
    27. Targeted advertising
      1. Where are potential prospects located?
    28. Public relations
    29. Merchandising the product

       
       

     
     

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Thursday, April 10, 2008

4/10/08

Lecture:

  1. Exam (april 24) chapts. 10 - 23
  2. The feasibility study
    1. Content
      1. Executive summary
      2. Market study
      3. Preliminary drawings
      4. Cost estimates
      5. Terms and sources of financing
      6. Time line
      7. Government considerations
      8. Estimate of value
    2. 38% operating expense cost
    3. 20% return on equity (80% loan)
    4. Rule R-41C
      1. Appraisal policies and practices of insured institutions and service corporations
      2. Lenders are required to formally estimate projects highest and best use
    5. Critical analytic elements
      1. Idea and target market - enumeration of the target market (numbers, tastes, etc.)
      2. Analysis of competition
      3. Discounted cash flow model
      4. Sensitivity analysis
      5. Review of risks (risk control techniques)
      6. Confirmation that the project is feasible for each participant
    6. Market study
      1. First step - long term global, national, regional, and local trends
      2. Second step - investigate comparable properties
      3. Thrid step - projected absorption schedules for the market segment and for the specified property
    7. Market study results
      1. The result of the market study is an estimated schedule of leasing or sales for the proposed development that projects rent, occupancy, and expenses over the leasing period and number of units over the sellout period.
    8. Preliminary drawings
      1. Site plan
      2. Exterior elevations
      3. Floor plans showing rentable SF
      4. Salable units
      5. Parking
      6. Mechanical systems
    9. Quality of design
      1. High quality design is becoming more important - marketing appeal
      2. Bilbao - guggenheim - frank gehry
      3. Projected 500,000 visitors in the first year but brought in 1.36 million visitors and $160 million in revenue
    10. Cost estimates
      1. Land - optioned or contracted
      2. Needed infrastructure - impact fees
      3. Improvement costs
      4. www.d4cost.net
    11. Detailed cost breakdown
      1. Land cost - bexar cad
      2. Site development costs
      3. Design fees
        1. Architecture
        2. Engineering
      4. Hard costs
        1. By category (csi divisions)
        2. Labor and materials
      5. Permitting fees
      6. Financing costs
        1. Permanent loan commitment fees
        2. Construction interest
        3. Construction loan fee
      7. Marketing costs
      8. Pre-opening operating costs
      9. Legal fees
      10. Accounting fees
      11. Field supervision
      12. Overhead
      13. Contingencies
      14. Development fees
    12. Lenders
      1. Permanent lender
      2. Prospective return and associated risk
        1. Debt service coverage ratio
        2. Loan to value ratio
      3. Large life insurance companies
        1. Larger projects developed by national firms
      4. Regional life insurance companies and some commercial banks
    13. Government considerations
      1. Reviews
      2. Building permits
      3. Inspections
      4. One stop center - san antonio
    14. The enterprise concept
      1. View of the development process as a living breathing organism with ongoing problems with cash management like operating a business
    15. Venture capital (higher risk investors)
      1. Large projects require extended time periods to develop
      2. Venture capital money may be needed
      3. Expensive financing
    16. Risk control
      1. Feasibility analysis
      2. Financing
      3. Infrastructure analysis
      4. Warranties
        1. Architects - errors and omissions
        2. Suppliers
    17. Market research
      1. Identify supply/demand
      2. Identify potential buyers/users
      3. Identify unit characteristics preferances
    18. Market studies
      1. Inventory and quality of existing space
      2. New construction of space
    19. Important inputs
      1. Population and population changes
      2. Employment and employment changes
      3. Income and income changes
      4. Other macroeconomic and local factors
      5. Psychological, image, and other perceptions
    20. Develop a market strategy
    21. Definitions
      1. Metropolitan area market - MSA (metropolitan statistical area)
      2. Competitive submarket - downtown housing/office space
      3. Peer group market - office levels
  3. Contract negotiation and formal commitment
    1. Stages
      1. Inception of an idea
      2. Refinement of an idea
      3. The feasibility study
    2. The construction lender
      1. Developer experience and reputation a factor
    3. The permanent lender
      1. Historically - 30 years at a fixed rate
      2. Today
      3. Ballooning
      4. Interest rates adjusted periodically
      5. Interested in the projects ability to sustain cash flows
    4. The mezzanine lender
      1. Loan to the developer or equity holders to cover the shortage between construction of permanent lenders loan
      2. May be secured by a subordinated deed of trust
      3. Higher borrowing or loan fees
    5. Sources of development financing
      1. Insurance companies
      2. Correspondent programs - loan origination firms that allow insurance
    6. Conduit loans
      1. Exacting rules
      2. Higher costs of transaction
      3. Restrict prepayment of the loans
      4. Prepayment premiums
    7. Environmental audit of property
      1. Review of past land owners and uses
      2. Site studies
      3. Soil tests
    8. Environmental issues
      1. Superfund
      2. Present owners and certain past owners of land contaminated by hazardous waste are liable
      3. Innocent landowners
      4. Love canal - hooker chemical co.
      5. Asbestos
      6. Clean water act
      7. Wetlands
      8. Permit from corps. Of engineers - 373 days average
    1. Contracts
      1. AIA B-141
      2. Insurance requirements (errors and omissions, etc)
      3. Plans belong to the architect
      4. The construction contract
    2. Bidding versus negotiations
      1. Fixed price
      2. Cost plus
      3. Combinations
    3. Fast-track construction
      1. Pros
        1. Quick response in a changing market situation
      2. Cons
        1. Requires a high degree of coordination and experienced architects
    4. Bonding
      1. Guarantee of either completion and/or payment
      2. Contractor
        1. Measure of capacity to do the work and financial substance
    5. Supervision of construction
      1. Architect
      2. Developer
      3. Construction manager
    6. Tenants
      1. Major
        1. Department stores
        2. Corporate offices
      2. Minor
        1. Specialty shops
    7. Design bid build
      1. Traditional
    8. Construction management
      1. Advisor
      2. Agent
      3. Constructor - CM takes on full management
        1. Hires architect
    9. Design build
      1. Contractor hires architect
    10. Services and compensation
      1. Specialization of older disciplines - architecture, engineering, contractors
      2. No standard projects

         
         

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Tuesday, April 8, 2008

4/8/08

Lecture:

  1. Test review
    1. Look at terms at the end of chapters, and essay questions
  2. Affordable housing
    1. 30 percent of its household income
  3. Housing definitions
    1. Low income rental housing - housing that requires subsidies
    2. Affordable ownership housing - market rate housing for unsubsidized and subsidized home buyers
  4. The problem today
    1. 2/3 of all poor families live in housing that costs more than they can afford
    2. 1 in 6 poor families live in dilapidated units
    3. By 1985, poor families were spending 58% of their income for housing
    4. Rents for poor families increased 30%
  5. Since 1973
    1. The poorest one-fifth of the population lost 32% of its real income compared to loss of only 1.7% for the wealthiest
    2. Poor americans have lost income more quickly than any other group
  6. Bexar county, Texas
    1. 1999 - 228,083 people are considered to be living in poverty
    2. The above figure could be as high as 275,785
    3. Health and human services classifies a family of 4 living on less than $18,400 as being in poverty
    4. HUD - $21,141
  7. Average housing unit size
    1. 1950's levittown house - 750 sf
    2. 1963 - 1450 sf
    3. 1973 - 1650 sf
    4. 1989 - 2000 sf
    5. 2007 - 2500 sf
    6. Dominion - 3000 - 5000 sf
  8. Housing trends
    1. By 1973, 3/4 of all new houses contained 2 or more bathrooms
    2. Each child is given a bedroom
    3. Family and recreation rooms added durin ghte 1960's
    4. Houses become warehouses for storage
  9. Cost of housing
    1. In 1939 the average house cost was priced at $6000
    2. Today the average house costs over $130,000
  10. Cost of development of a single family house
    1. Land 1948 - 11%
    2. Land 1984 - 22%
    3. Materials - 36% 1948
    4. Materials - 31% 1984
    5. Labor 33% - 1948
    6. Labor 16% - 1984
    7. Financing 5% - 1948
    8. Financing 11% - 1984
    9. Profit/overhead - 15%
    10. Profit/overhad - 20% - 1984
  11. Definition of low income HUD
    1. 4 person household with an income less than 50% of the local area median family income is considered very low income, 30% exremely low
    2. 50 to 80% of the area median
    3. Median income in san antonio - $36,000 - $45,860
  12. Median family income
    1. San antonio - $41,331 (2000)
    2. San antonio - $46,484 (2006)
    3. Alamo heights - $86,897 (2000)
    4. Balcones heights - $27,074 (2000)
    5. Terrell hills - $86,636 (2000)
    6. Austin - $51,519 (2003)
  13. Housing inventory absorption
    1. Unsustainable high-water marks in production, price and appreciation 2004-2005
    2. 875,000 - 2007
    3. 621,000 - 2008
    4. 214,000 - 2009
    5. 108,000 - 2010
  14. Inflated prices created affordability disconnect - leading home price appreciation markets 2000-2003
    1. 40% - california
    2. 37.5% - washington d.c.
    3. 35% - new jersey
    4. 32.5% - florida
    5. 22.5% - U.S.
  15. Ten principles for developing affordable housing
    1. Inspire leadership
    2. Build community support and trust
    3. Learn the alphabet and do the math
    4. Know your market and your customers
    5. Nurture partnerships
    6. Select sites for opportunity and choice
    7. Strive for health balanced communities
    8. Use design to foster community, safety and pride
    9. Empower residents
    10. Orchestrate sustainability
  16. Ravenna cottages
    1. High density in-fill
    2. 10,500 sf
    3. 9 units
  17. Refugio place
    1. Combination mid and low income housing
    2. Victoria courts
      1. Appearance location and high crime rate, made it a good candidate
      2. 2002 texas department of housing and community affairs approves over $7 million in tax credits to finance refugio
      3. 2003 HUD
      4. Costs
        1. Land $1M
        2. Hard costs $12.3 M ($65/sf)
        3. Soft costs $5.7 M
        4. Infrastructure $1.76 M
      5. Bedrooms are on the exterior
      6. Statistics
        1. Average unit size: 892 SF
        2. Average rent: $567

           
           

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Thursday, April 3, 2008

4/03/08

Lecture:

  1. Gross income statement due on Tuesday April 8
    1. We should see 15% return on equity
    2. Example
      1. $100,000 x 20% = $20,000.00 (equity loan from a bank)
      2. $80,000 x 15% = $12,000.00 (return per year)

     
     

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