Real Estate

The Real Estate Track is designed to provide students interested in real estate related careers with a rigorous background in real estate fundamentals, including real estate finance, valuation, real estate taxation and investment analysis. Students will also be introduced to property management and land use and development concepts in order to support multiple career development paths.

Interdisciplinary courses covering asset and portfolio analysis, banking, quantitative methods, and economics support the real estate track, which is structured to encourage analytical thinking, creative problem solving, and strategic decision making.

FI 534 Graduate Seminar in Real Estate covers real estate fundamentals, including real property law, the structure of commercial real estate transactions, basic real estate financing methods, real estate brokerage, property management, and real estate market analysis. Taught primarily as a survey course, classroom lectures are supplemented with frequent presentations and seminars by leading real estate executives. Such professional and practitioner participation results in a focused integration of theory and practice.

FI 535 Real Estate Investment focuses on the measurement of risk and return to real estate investments, with an emphasis on investment performance criteria and the techniques used to analyze and finance income-producing properties. Real estate equity and debt securitization, REITSs, and other real estate related investments topics will also be covered. Class lectures will be supplemented by case studies and real estate investment analysis software applications.

Recommended electives include LGS 407 Real and Personal Property Law and FI 432 Real Estate Appraisal.