Final Exam and Final Course Grades Posted

Final exam and final course grades have been posted to WebCT. Have a good break! Andy

Exam 2 Scores Posted

Exam 2 scores have been posted to WebCT. I will return the exams and Scan-trons to you on Saturday.

Blog Post Paper Schedule

Student Name
Paper Title
Submission Date

Yaqoub Alabdullah
"Islamic Finance in Real Estate: Is it immune to the financial crisis?"
7/18/2009

Dee Brown
"Will This Sleepy Town Ever Wake Up?"
7/24/2009

Keith Weik
Design/Build/Develop delivery approach
7/24/09

Adam Henning
"First Time Homebuyers in an Uncertain Market"
7/24/2009

Otis Thornton
"Supportive Housing and Neighborhood Property Values"
7/24/09

Blog Post Paper Option

For those of you planning to pursue the Blog Post Paper option, please send me your due date (must be before that last day of class), your name, and your title (or at least your topic). Please send to reae.analysis@gmail.com.

I will then create a blog post with all the topics and due dates so we can see what everyone is doing.

Exam 1 Scores Posted to WebCT

Please logon to WebCT for your Exam 1 score. Class statistics are also reported on WebCT. We will go over the exam during our next on-campus class. Have a good 4th of July.

Assignments for Next Week (July 4th)

Chapter 7 Market Analysis

Introductory Appraisal Video/Audio Clips (to accompany chapters 6-9)

To download and view the class notes, you must use Explorer (version 5.0 or higher) or Netscape. Please note that Firefox will not work.

Part 1 (13 minutes) Part 2 (15 min) Part 3 (26 min) Part 4 (32 min) Part 5 (27 min)

Optional Valuation/Appraisal clips (notes from another textbook but very useful):

Ch 12 PP Chapter 12 pdf Chapter 12 Video/Audio Clip (23 min)

Ch 13 PP Chapter 13 pdf Chapter 13 Word Chapter 13 Video/Audio Clip (40 min) (wmv file right click and save to desktop to download)

Ch 14 PP Chapter 14 pdf Chapter 14 Video/Audio Clip (38 min)

Ch 15 PP Chapter 15 pdf Chapter 15 Word Chapter 15 Video/Audio Clip (29 min)

Ch 17 PP Chapter 17 pdf Chapter 17 Video/Audio Clip (43 min)

Ch 18 PP Chapter 18 pdf Chapter 18 Word Chapter 18 Video/Audio Clip (66 min)

Ch 20 PP Chapter 20 pdf Chapter 20 Word Ch 20 Part 1 Audio/Video Clip (wmv file right click and save to desktop to download)

Ch 20 Part 2 Audio/Video Clip (wmv file right click and save to desktop to download)

Ch 21 PP Chapter 21 pdf Chapter 21 Word Chapter 21 Audio/Video Clip (wmv file right click and save to desktop to download)

Ch 22 PP Chapter 22 pdf Chapter 22 Word Chapter 22 Audio/Video Clip (wmv file right click and save to desktop to download)

Ch 23 PP Chapter 23 pdf Chapter 23 Audio/Video Clip (wmv file right click and save to desktop to download)

Other valuation appraisal materials (time permitting): -- REQUIRED!

Appraisal Crossword Puzzle (.pdf)

Appraisal Crossword Puzzle Solution (.pdf)

Other Materials for Appraisal (.pdf)

Video/Audio Clip for SC and Cost Approach Solutions (20 minutes)

Sales Comparison Approach Problem Solution (.pdf)

Cost Approach Problems Solutions (.pdf)

Video/Audio Clip for the Case of the Botched Appraisal Instructions (15 minutes)

Case of the Botched Appraisal Instructions

Original Appraisal

Worksheet

Corrected Appraisal

Video/Audio Clip for the Case of the Botched Appraisal Solution

Also, you need to be practicing the Investment Problem! If you haven't viewed the Investment Problem videos yet, please add this to your assignments for next week.

WebCT Setup

WebCT is now setup for the course. Please remember that we only use WebCT for posting grades. Never contact me through WebCT e-mail. Always use reae.analysis@gmail.com.

Please log-on to your WebCT and verify that you are enrolled in the course.

Thank you!

Dr. Hansz's Summer Office Hours

My office hours will be from 2 to 4 PM on Mondays and Wednesdays. Please note, I will not have office hours on June 15, 17, 22, and 24.

Course Homepage Ready to Summer 2009 8-Week Session

The class homepage is ready to go and can be found by going to my faculty site www.uta.edu/faculty/hansz (just click on link to REAE 5311). Please download and print-out a copy of the syllabus for our first class meeting on Saturday, June 6th at 1 PM. You might also want to bring hardcopies of the class notes for the first couple chapters.

REAE 5311 First Class: Saturday, June 6th at 1 PM

Dear REAE 5311 Student,

The first REAE 5311 2009 Summer class will be on Saturday, June 6th starting at 1 PM. The course website is located at www.uta.edu/faculty/hansz (click on link to REAE 5311) has been setup with the syllabus posted. Please printout the syllabus and bring it to the first class. Please make sure you immediately put the important class dates into your calendar.

Also, we have a lot of material to cover and read in a 8-week session. If you can start on the class early, please go right ahead. It would be very useful to read the first 3 to 4 chapters for the first class if you have the textbook. Alternatively, you can start on the review packet, "Review Materials for Real Estate Analysis" which can be downloaded from the course homepage for free.

Finally, please check this blog regularly for announcements. See you soon...

Cheers,
Dr. Hansz

Course Grades

Your final course letter grades have been posted to WebCT. I will get your final exam grades posted soon, I just wanted to post your letter grades ASAP.

Final Exam Update

The final exam will have 65 questions with 15 of the 65 questions pertaining to the UrbanPlan project.

Did you see the pictures and stories on the UP competition?

Make sure you visit realestateprogram.blogspot.com for pictures and the UrbanPlan articles in the Shorthorn. There was a very nice picture of Angela on the cover of today's Shorthorn.

Final Exam Chapters

The final exam this Thursday will cover chapters 6, 7, 8, and 9 plus questions from the UrbanPlan materials.

The first place team (team 3) will receive 5 bonus points on their final exam grade (this is in addition to any normal exam curve). The second place team was team 1 and team 1 members will receive 4 bonus points on the final exam. Team 2 will receive three bonus points on the final exam.

Optional Valuation/Appraisal Video/Audio Clips

I have posted 8 to 10 hours of video/audio clips covering valuation topics. These notes and clips are from another text but you will find a lot of overlap with our valuation chapters (6 through 9 in particular). Give them a try. You might find them helpful.

Links to the clips can be found on our course homepage.

Facilitation

Check out Ali's story on the UrbanPlan facilitation:

http://www.theshorthorn.com/content/view/16870/209/

UrbanPlan Facilitation Location

We will hold UrbanPlan facilitation in a 6th floor conference room (633). Please find room 633 by 7 PM this Thursday (April 23rd). Also, we will use this same room for the City Council presentations on May 2nd.

Exam 2 Grades

Exam 2 grades have been posted to WebCT. We will review the exams at the end of class tonight.

Exam 1 Grades Posted to WebCT

Exam 1 grades have been posted to WebCT. Overally pretty good for the first exam (please see the exam statistics on WebCT). There was a two questions curve incorporated into the grades (final grades calculated based on 60 points rather than 62 points). We will review the exam in-class this Thursday evening after the Business Week presentation.

Blog Post Schedule

Note: You will be posting on our main program blog realestateprogram.blogspot.com.

Here is the list of REAE 5311 bloggers with self imposed due dates (10% per week penalty after the due date). Remember, you can always post early.

3/20  Kerrie Dunn Refinancing and loan modification

3/26  Luz Monarez First-time home-buying

3/27 Demarqus James UTA's Proposed Events Center

3/30 Angela Ferrell Housing Bubble

4/12 Michael Sanchez Mineral Rights

4/26 Yogesh Patil Green Development and the Developers Point of View

4/30 Josh Smith

Sept 22 Richard Bowen Suburban sprawl

S&P Case-Shiller Conference Call Replay

S&P released the Case-Shiller Home Price Indices updates this morning and held a teleconference to explain the updates and the review the general state of the U.S. housing market. You will hear about this index in the news but you might also want to hear directly from the source. You are invited to listen to the recorded teleconference.

Replays: Recorded replays of the call are available until Tuesday, March 3, 2009.

Replay numbers: 1-283-368-1822US/Canada: 1-866-501-0097
All Others: 1-203-369-1822

Streaming Audio: The call will also be available live in “listen-only” mode at www.mymeetings.com Under Participant, select join an event Conference ID#: 5354186 and Passcode: SANDP. The Streaming Audio playback is available at www.mymeetings.com/nc/join Conference ID#: PG5354186 and Passcode: SANDP until Tuesday, March 17, 2009. These features require listeners to have the Real Player™ software, sound card, and speakers.

If you have any questions about the conference call, please e-mail: eventsmarketing@standardandpoors.com.

Quiz 2

Quiz 2 scores have been posted to WebCT.

Spring 2009 Syllabus Needs Updating (page 9)

The proposed Spring 2009 schedule on page 9 of the syllabus needs updating. I will be able to access it and fix it on Thursday afternoon (I will also bring hard copies to class). Just for your reference now, the exam dates for Spring 2009 are as follows:

Exam 1 March 5th starting at 7 PM
Exam 2 April 2nd starting at 7 PM
Final Exam May 14th starting at 8:15 PM

Put theses dates in your calendar and we will fill-in the rest on Thursday night.

Cheers!

Spring 2009 Syllabus

First REAE 5311 class is this Thursday at 7 PM in room 140 COB. The class web page can be found at www.uta.edu/faculty/hansz (click on the REAE 5311 link). Please download the syllabus and bring it to the first day of class. See you soon!