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- October 2007 (Revised March 2009)
- Background Note
Structuring Real Estate Deals: An Investor's Perspective
By: Arthur I Segel
Addresses the following questions: What are the portfolio-level implications? What are the asset-level characteristics? How do I invest? With whom do I invest? What do I get for my investment? What protections do I have? When and how do I get out? View Details
- August 2007 (Revised April 2012)
- Technical Note
Technical Note on Financial Leverage in Real Estate
By: Charles F. Wu and Arthur I Segel
Demonstrates the accelerating impact of leverage on returns under differing scenarios of property performance. The performance scenarios represent two points in time: the inception of the investment and the liquidation. View Details
- July 2007 (Revised October 2010)
- Teaching Note
The Beijing Dream (TN)
By: Arthur I Segel, Voon Siang Lee, Jialei Tian and Ying Laura Wang
Teaching Note to 208015. View Details
Keywords: Beijing
- July 2007 (Revised July 2008)
- Case
The Beijing Dream
By: Arthur I Segel, Voon Siang Lee, Jialei Tian and Ying Laura Wang
The purchase of a single-family home is generally the major investment for most young couples in China. Shows in detail the process that a young couple goes through in late April 2007 to find, finance, and close on an apartment in Beijing within what they believe to be... View Details
- January 2007 (Revised May 2009)
- Supplement
Kibera and the Kenya Slum Upgrading Project (B)
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Arthur I Segel, Marc Diaz and John Dean Shepherd
- January 2007
- Teaching Note
Kibera and the Kenya Slum Upgrading Project (TN) (A) and (B)
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Arthur I Segel
- January 2007
- Teaching Note
Habitat for Humanity International in South Africa (TN)
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Arthur I Segel
- January 2007 (Revised May 2009)
- Case
Kibera and the Kenya Slum Upgrading Project (A)
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Arthur I Segel, Marc Diaz and John Dean Shepherd
Kenya's Minister of Housing faces tremendous pressures in dealing with the pervasive housing troubles in his country. Kibera is the largest slum in Africa and home to more than 800,000 residents, yet only measures two square kilometers, roughly half the size of... View Details
- November 2006 (Revised January 2007)
- Case
Habitat for Humanity International in South Africa
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Arthur I Segel and Nelson Hioe
In March 2006, Larry English, Director of Program Design and Innovation for Habitat for Humanity International Africa and the Middle East, was reflecting on a large development project in Durbin that had stalled. Notwithstanding global attention led by former President... View Details
- November 2006 (Revised August 2007)
- Case
Chongqing Tiandi
By: Arthur I Segel, Nicolas P. Retsinas, Joshua A. Katzin, Nadeem Meghji and Cindy Yan
In late 2000, Vincent Lo, a prominent Hong Kong developer was invited by the Deputy Mayor of Chongqing, China to undertake a major redevelopment of the urban core. Lo had previously successfully developed the landmark Xintiandi retail and entertainment district in... View Details
- October 2006 (Revised March 2009)
- Case
Clifford Chance: Repotting the Tree
By: Arthur I Segel, A. Eugene Kohn and Nhat Minh Nguyen
Clifford Chance, LLP, a global law firm headquartered in London, needs to make a decision whether to stay in the central business district of London or move to a redeveloped business park at Canary Wharf, three miles outside of central London. Peter Charleton, head of... View Details
- October 2006 (Revised October 2007)
- Case
Grosvenor Group Limited
By: Andre F. Perold, Arthur I Segel, Oliver Corlette and Soyoun Song
A global real estate investment firm is trying to decide whether to enter into a property-derivative transaction to help it effect a change in asset allocation. The market for real estate derivatives is beginning to grow quite rapidly and the firm is trying to... View Details
- September 2006 (Revised November 2007)
- Case
Patrimonio Hoy: A Financial Perspective
By: Arthur I Segel, Michael Chu and Gustavo A. Herrero
Patrimonio Hoy, a program targeting the housing needs of low-income families launched by CEMEX, a major Mexican corporation and a leading global cement company, has gone from a market research project to a highly visible initiative in 22 cities and has earned public... View Details
- August 2006
- Teaching Note
Cinco de Mayo (TN)
By: Arthur I Segel and Nicolas P. Retsinas
Keywords: Mexico
- July 2006 (Revised June 2010)
- Teaching Note
Eldeco: Playing in the Big League (TN)
By: Arthur I Segel, Nicolas P. Retsinas and Griffin James
- July 2006 (Revised September 2012)
- Teaching Note
Holt Lunsford Commercial (TN)
By: Arthur I Segel
Teaching Note for case number 804012. View Details