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Article: Buying it right: the due diligence review process. (real estate)(Focus On: Banking & Financing)
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- Real Estate Weekly
- Article date:
- May 21, 1997
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The process of conducting a due diligence review of a typical commercial real estate project and related mortgage as part of a pool offering must consider the strategic as well as the tactical issues relating to the investment's life cycle. One way to approach this is to break the process of underwriting down into five stages: analysis, acquisition, asset management, disposition or exit strategy, and bid pricing.
In each of these stages, we consider the impact on the borrower's continued creditworthiness and debt support, the property's continued performance (or lack thereof) and the loan itself. In effect, it is a residual analysis. Value is determined through ...