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Mark-to-Market Accounting: What's the Big Deal?

Posted by: Carleton Sheets in Value, Securities, Real Estate, Property, mortgage, Market Value, Mark to Market, Comps, Comparables, Comparable value, Asset on Mar 19, 2009.

Have you read or heard about mark-to-market accounting in the news lately? Mark-to-market accounting is an accounting theory of pricing assets based on their fair market value that larger banks use in reporting their shareholder equity. So how does this tie into the real estate market?

When you are analyzing a property to purchase, you need to get a sense of its current value. You do this by

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