Economists suggest that the value of something results from its utility and:✔️✔️Scarcity
A branch of economics that extends the basic ideas of the early classical and neoclassical
economists to better understand and predict how humans use space is termed:✔️✔️Urban
economics
Formals arrangements and associations that members of society make to support fundamental
economics and social activities are referred to, in the text as✔️✔️institutions
Marshal contended that in a perfect market, the value of a good✔️✔️Was equal to its price
Commercial mortgages held in portfolios of lenders are generally referred to as✔️✔️Unsecuritized
commercial mortgages
Stocks,bonds, and cash are generally classified as✔️✔️Financial assets
Real estate in the United States represents approximately what portion of the world's
wealth?✔️✔️15 %
Approximately __________ of the wealth of real estate in the U.S Accrues to residential
property✔️✔️75%
According to the text, business real estate (excluding farmland) accounts for approximately
_____ percent of the total value of real estate in the U.S?✔️✔️15%
The text organized to describe the following five perspectives of real estate✔️✔️-investment,
market, valuation, mortgage finance, and legal
T/F: Early economists concluded that land, labor, and credit were the resources of society that
were combined by entrepreneurs to form useful products✔️✔️FALSE
The resources combined to form useful products in society are land, labor, and capital.
T/F: Alfred Marshall, an economist, argued that value results from the intersection of supply
(cost) and demand (utility).✔️✔️True
T/F: Urban economics constitutes a branch of economics that focuses on urban problems,
especially housing issues.✔️✔️True
T/F The fundamentals of supply and demand explain all aspects about individual and market
behavior in valuing space.✔️✔️FALSE
, Much behavior is still unexplained due to the role of institutional arrangements, such as laws/
regulations.
T/F: In addition to affecting market operations, lease contracts serve to formally identify a
property's rent and the intersection of supply and demand✔️✔️True
T/F: Real estate can be classified as both a financial asset and a real asset✔️✔️True
T/F: Consistent with an open economy, most of the land in every state in the U.S. is privately
owned.✔️✔️FALSE
There are a few U.S. States that most of the land is owned by the government (Ex. Alaska)
T/F: According to the text, real estate represents about one-half of the worlds wealth✔️✔️True
T/F: Commercial real estate constitutes the most valuable component of the U.S real estate
market✔️✔️False. Homeowners and residential mortgage lenders jointly own majority of U.S
Real Estate
T/F Commercial real estate owners carry more debt (as a percentage of the total property value)
than residential property owners.✔️✔️false
Effective Cost✔️✔️the true borrowing cost, including the effect of up-front financing costs
Capitalization Rate✔️✔️calculated as expected cash flow in year one divided by the initial
acquisition price, it is a measure of the current relationship between a property's income stream
and price
internal rate or return✔️✔️The discount rate which equates the present value of the cash inflows to
the present value of the cash outflows
Net Present Value✔️✔️The difference between the present value of the cash inflows and the
present value of the cash outflows
Investment Value✔️✔️the value of the property to a particular investor
A property owner anticipates needing $25,000 in 10 years to replace the roof on a commercial
building that he just purchased. If a 7% annual rate of interest can be earned on savings, how
much does he needs to be saved each month?✔️✔️(First hit 2nd and then P/Y and enter 12 then
clear to begin input)
N= 10x12 = 120
I= 7%
Pv= 0
Pmt= ?
Fv= 25,000