A detailed and practical guide for private real estate fund managers and investors available, now in print and Kindle formats. Edited by David Lynn, CRE and Tim Wang, this guide features contributions from over 25 leading real estate professionals in the industry today – and will shed light on challenging quantitative problems such as assessing risk, forecasting, measuring and benchmarking real estate performance. The scope spans capital structure, risk and return of international investments, CMBS, financial analysis, portfolio management through the cycles and much more. Co-author: David Lynn, CRE
Scott Muldavin, CRE, has been a leader in the real estate industry for over 40 years. He has been a Senior Advisor to Delos, pioneer of the WELL Building Standard® and Executive Director of the Green Building Finance Consortium. For 15 years, he led the movement to scale sustainable property investment by fully integrating health, wellness, productivity, and other benefits into property sustainability investment decisions. Mr. Muldavin’s 2010 book: "Value Beyond Cost Savings: How to Underwrite Sustainable Properties" and his practice guides: "How to Calculate and Present Deep Retrofit Value for Owner Occupants" (2014) and a companion guide for Investors (April 2015), are the first to detail how to calculate the financial performance of specific property sustainability investments. Similar work documenting the methodology and data supporting financial decision-making involving healthy buildings is presented on his website. Mr. Muldavin’s sustainability work builds on his foundation of real estate experience. He served as President of The Muldavin Company, Inc., a real estate consulting firm; co-founded of Guggenheim Real Estate, a multi-billion-dollar private real estate company; was a lead real estate consulting partner at Deloitte; served on the Advisory Board of Global Real Analytics, an advisor to $2 billion of REIT and CMBS funds, and has completed over 300 consulting engagements involving real estate finance, investment, valuation, securitization, corporate real estate, and sustainability. Mr. Muldavin is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard University, a Emeritus member of the Counselors of Real Estate (CRE) and previously a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS) and a Certified Management Consultant. He and authored over 250 books and articles on real estate finance, investment and sustainability.