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Real Estate

Optional Courses

Students on the MSc in 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:

  • Strategic Real Estate Management is intended to help students understand the full spectrum of activities, options and decisions involved in the strategic management of a real estate portfolio. This optional course is worth 10 credits.
  • International Real Estate Markets is a 10 credits courses that involves in-depth analysis of investment issues relating to the ownership, management, valuation, development and acquisition of direct real estate in case study international real estate property markets.
  • International Corporare Finance seeks to provide students with an understanding of the principal issues involved in Corporate Finance. Please note International Corporate Finance runs in Semester 1 and places are limited.