International Real Estate

Optional courses

Students on the MSc in International Real Estate are required to take the following 40 credits of core real estate courses:

• Real Estate Valuation and Appraisal equips students with the mathematical principles underpinning real estate valuation and appraisal, and enable them to use a selection of traditional and contemporary techniques based on mathematical formulae to value land and buildings.
• Advanced Real Estate Valuation and Appraisal directly builds on the valuation and appraisal knowledge and skills students developed in Real Estate Valuation and Appraisal , and develops their skills when applied to the more complex situations that valuation surveyors commonly experience.
• Real Estate Markets investigates the determinants of real estate values by enabling students to visualise real estate as a series of linked markets and submarkets, which themselves relate to, and reflect, broader economic, social and political forces.
• Real Estate Finance & Investment is a 10 credits course that explores the risk and return characteristics of direct and securitised real estate, raws comparison with the investment charactistics of other asset classes and examines the role of real estate in a mixed asset portfolio.

In addition, students are required to select 20 credits of optional courses taken from the following list:

• International Real Estate Analysis is a 20 credits course that involved in-depth analysis of investment issues relating to the ownership, management, valuation, development and acquisition of direct real estate in international real estate property markets.  It uses real estate markets in individual countries as case studies and other forms of analysis to illustrate how the complex economic, political, social and cultural framework interacts to produce unique property markets with specific investment and legal characteristics.
• Asian Cities is a 20 credits course which involves oversea travel.  This intensive fieldtrip, run by the University of Hong Kong, were students visit case study developments over a 2 or 4 weeks period from the end of June and through July. The cities visited as part of the full four weeks version are usually Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo and Seoul.  Students are expected to pay for their own travel and accommodation costs.