The direct property investor cannot avoid using finance management or financial modelling either:
- Parameter analysis
- Property market appraisal
- Planning operating costs
- Apportionment of service charges
- Maintenance (reconditioning, repair, renovation)
- Rent planning
- ACTUAL rents
- TARGET rents
- Higher yields
- Rent increase
- Reduced yields
- Vacancy rate
- Rent reduction
- Investment planning (change, adaptation, conversion, extension)
- Portfolio sales planning
- Acquisition financing / planning
- Exit planning
- Leverage effects
- Financial restructuring
- Change to the financing period
- Short > long or vice versa
- Change to interest rate basis
- Variable mortgage > fixed-rate mortgage
- Variable mortgage > LIBOR mortgage
- Fixed-rate mortgage > LIBOR mortgage
- Combinations
- Bank financing > private equity and vice versa
- Traditional financing > securitisation
- and so on
- Change to the financing period
