Real Estate (PgCert)

Core courses

The core courses for students on the Postgraduate Certificate in Real Estate are as follows:

• Development Economics  introduces students to  development appraisal principles and techniques, and the factors that impact on property values. Students will apply these principles in a development appraisal project
• Development Process is designed to enable students to understand the process of real estate development and its relationship to broader social, economic and political forces.  This optional course is worth 10 credits.
• 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 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.