Contemporary Questions in Real Estate URBAN5143

  • Academic Session: 2025-26
  • School: School of Social and Political Sciences
  • Credits: 10
  • Level: Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
  • Typically Offered: Semester 1
  • Available to Visiting Students: Yes
  • Collaborative Online International Learning: No
  • Curriculum For Life: No

Short Description

This course provides a platform for the discussion of key influences across the real estate market today. Questions around contemporary market trends and the evolutionary dynamics of global real estate will be considered through lectures and seminars, providing the opportunity for reflection on theory, practice, and outcomes.

Timetable

20 hours of timetabled on-campus teaching in Semester 1, delivered over 7 weeks as follows:

 

- Introductory 3-hour lecture, 5 x 1hr lecture + 2hr seminars (Weeks 2-6). 

- 3 hourly blocks once per week, over 6 consecutive weeks (Weeks 1-6).

Requirements of Entry

Mandatory Entry Requirements: None

 

Recommended Entry Requirements: None

Excluded Courses

None

Co-requisites

None

Assessment

Group presentation (20%)

Individual essay (80%)

Course Aims

This course aims to introduce students to dynamic influences and challenges across the global real estate market and exposes them to contemporary questions which provoke debate and discussion. The course structure develops students critical and analytical thinking in relation to contemporary real estate market trends, processes, and influences, with seminars on questions which will be defined initially by the students themselves. The course aims to be flexible and holistic in its approach and the questions may change year on year, as the market itself adjusts. It aims to foster debate and appreciation of diverse conceptual and practical perspectives on specific topics through extensive literature and market analysis, honing student communication skills and allowing them to challenge their own pre-conceived ideas in an active and engaged way.

Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ Evaluate, synthesise and communicate informed and diverse perspectives on contemporary questions in global real estate markets.

■ Demonstrate a critical awareness of current real estate market trends, influences, and processes, in line with relevant literature.

■ Recognise and assess the complexities and potential conflicts, barriers, and challenges inherent within variegated real estate sectors and markets across the world.

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.

 

Minimum requirement for award of credit for students on MSc real Estate is D3 or above.

 

University standard regulations apply to students on other qualifications.