International Residential Real Estate URBAN5147

  • Academic Session: 2025-26
  • School: School of Social and Political Sciences
  • Credits: 10
  • Level: Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
  • Typically Offered: Semester 2
  • Available to Visiting Students: Yes
  • Collaborative Online International Learning: No
  • Curriculum For Life: No

Short Description

This course explores the inherent challenges in the residential real estate market globally, considering its historic development as an asset class. Through analysis of both theoretical and practical perspectives, it examines the complex nature of residential development, investment and management within variegated governance and regulatory mechanisms.

Timetable

18 hours of timetabled on-campus teaching in Semester 2, delivered as 3 hourly blocks once per week, over 6 consecutive weeks (Weeks 1-6): Introductory 3-hour lecture (Week 1), 5 x 2hr lecture + 1hr seminars (Weeks 2-6); One of the three-hour blocks (Weeks 2-5), will be dedicated to the field trip / site visit.

Requirements of Entry

Mandatory Entry Requirements: None

 

Recommended Entry Requirements: None

Excluded Courses

None

Co-requisites

None

Assessment

Small group assessment (50% total, 25% project output, 25% oral assessment)

Individual essay (1,500 word) (50%)

 

Students are asked to draw on relevant sources of market, policy and legislative data, interpreting these within an articulation of the current context for residential real estate as an asset class, including associated contemporary challenges.

Course Aims

This course aims to introduce students to the emergence and evolution of residential real estate within the international market, through the consideration of case studies and examples of varied sizes, scales, and timeframes. Students will critically analyse perspectives of stakeholders and actors from the public to the private sector, operating under various legal, political, policy and regulatory systems. This course will provide them with an understanding of nuances and context specific processes for residential development, investment, and management.

Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

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

■ Explain and reflect upon the complex history and ongoing challenges of residential real estate as an asset class.  

■ Demonstrate a critical understanding of established and emergent influences on residential real estate development, investment, and management from an international perspective.

■ Interpret, evaluate and analyse related literature, policies, market reports, market data, and legislation to analyse historic, current, and future trends in residential real estate.  

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 and MSc Cit is D3 or above.

 

University standard regulations apply to students on other qualifications.