Foreword
I'm very honoured to be invited by the authors and by Prof. Alessandro P. Scarso to write a foreword for the thoughtful book Property Finance – An International Approach.
As I had the privilege to be the first reader of this book, I believe it to be the most practical and concise guidebook on property finance. Based on the introduction to the fundamentals of property finance, the authors have explored the cutting edge issues of structured real estate financing, loan agreement, bullet payments, effects of financial leverage on real estate investments, structured real estate financing case studies, hybrid forms of financing, the Basel Accords, and effects on real estate financing. This book has a distinctive feature of question and case orientation.
This book has not followed the writing style of the classic textbook. Quite the contrary – the authors present the legal issues first, and then concentrate on providing feasible legal solutions to complete the property financing transactions from various perspectives. Therefore, this book is very appealing to bankers, lawyers, and business people as well as the students of law schools and business schools, who want to gain a clear picture of the legal system on property finance within a short time.
The devil is in the detail. In addition to offering various tailor-made alternatives to meet the different purposes of property financing transactions, this book has also paid appropriate attention to the legal details, which are ...
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