Alex Moss is Director of the Real Estate Research Centre at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), and Course Director for the MSc Global Finance online course and the MSc Real Estate course. He has been involved in research and transactions in the global real estate sector for over 30 years. His career has encompassed award-winning sell-side research (BZW), investment banking (CSFB), private equity (Apax Partners Capital) and fund management (M&G and Investec). He formed AME Capital in 2002, which developed a proprietary database and analytical tool for all listed real estate companies and real estate securities funds globally. This business was sold to Macquarie Securities in 2008, where he stayed for over three years as Head of Global Property Securities Analytics. In 2012 he formed Consilia Capital, a real estate investment advisory firm, and has developed an international institutional client base. In addition, at that stage he started publishing regularly in academic journals. As well as lecturing at Bayes he is also a visiting lecturer at UCL and Cambridge University. Alex is Chairman of the EPRA Research Committee.

Kieran Farrelly was formerly a Partner and Head of Market Research for the real estate team at the Stepstone Group. Prior to Stepstone, he was a Principal at the Townsend Group and a Director at CBRE Global Investors. His roles have encompassed portfolio management, investment underwriting across a range of conduits and global investment strategy. Previously, Kieran was a research analyst with M&G Real Estate. He holds a Ph.D. in real estate and planning from the Henley Business School at the University of Reading and a master's in economics from the University of Warwick. He has guest lectured on a variety of real estate investment finance topics at UCL, the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Reading, and London Business School. He has also authored several published academic real estate papers and is an Honorary Visiting Fellow at Bayes Business School.

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The Authors

A User Guide

Global Real Estate Markets

1: Global Real Estate Markets in Context

2: Understanding Different Shareholders' Objectives

3: Direct Real Estate Capital Markets

4: Analysing a Direct Real Estate Investment

5: Valuing Direct Real Estate Investment

6: Private Real Estate Fund Structures

7: Valuing Private Real Estate Vehicles

8: Private Commercial Real Estate Debt Structures

9: Listed Market Structure

10: Analysing a Listed Real Estate Company

11: Analysing Public Real Estate Debt

12: Valuing a Real Estate Company

13: Setting a Target Price

14: Operational Mechanics of a Listed Real Estate Company

15: Public Market Applications