Real Estate MSc

Course description

This programme will deliver a highly regarded professional education in real estate. It has been developed in close consultation with the relevant professional, policy and business communities and is intended to provide an intensive fast-track entry to a professional career. You will have the opportunity to study real estate with a specialism in either housing, international real estate, finance and investment, or regeneration to enable you to tailor your degree to a specific area of real estate surveying.

**WHY THIS PROGRAMME**

- If you plan a career as a chartered surveyor, primarily as a member of the Commercial Property or Valuation or Property Finance and Investment, Professional Groups of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), this programme is made for you.

- There is significant input from industry to our teaching programme, including teaching on some courses, guest lectures and seminars. There are also informal opportunities to meet people from industry at open events and recruitment presentations. We will also support you to arrange professional work placements.

- Specialist pathways will allow you to explore a particular area of real estate in more detail. You can choose from international real estate or real estate finance and investment.

- The programme is delivered using a combination of active learning methods and there is significant input from industry to our teaching programme through guest lectures and seminars.

- There are also informal opportunities to meet people from industry at Careers & Internship Marketplace and other recruitment presentations organised by the University. We will also support you to arrange professional work placements.

- An optional field trip to London will provide you with an insight into the complex socio-economic dynamics of city building and design through visits to high profile real estate, planning and regeneration projects. You will have the opportunity to meet and speak with senior industry professionals and policy-makers involved in the delivery of major urban developments. Past trips have included visits to The Shard, Olympic Park, Crossrail and Battersea Power Station.

- This programme is professionally accredited by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

**PROGRAMME STRUCTURE**

You will take nine core courses, plus a selection of additional specialist core and optional courses based on your chosen pathway. Core courses in semester 1 focus on theories, principles and policies in urban economics, planning and urban development which are necessary for you to build a thorough understanding of how urban areas and markets function. Through semester 1 you will develop core real estate skills and continue to do so as you specialise more in your chosen pathway during semester 2 and undertake a research dissertation.

**Core Courses**

**All pathways**
ADVANCED REAL ESTATE VALUATION AND APPRAISAL
DEVELOPMENT APPRAISAL FOR REAL ESTATE SURVEYORS
DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE, ETHICS AND MANAGEMENT
PROPERTY LAW FOR REAL ESTATE SURVEYORS
REAL ESTATE MARKETS
REAL ESTATE FINANCE AND INVESTMENT
REAL ESTATE VALUATION AND APPRAISAL
URBAN STUDIES RESEARCH: DESIGN, METHODS & ETHICS

**International Real Estate**
INTERNATIONAL REAL ESTATE ANALYSIS

**Real Estate Finance and Investment**
CORPORATE FINANCE

**Optional Courses may include:**

**International Real Estate**
PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS OF GIS (10 CREDITS)
SUSTAINABLE URBAN FUTURES (10)

**Real Estate Finance and Investment**
INTERNATIONAL REAL ESTATE MARKETS
STRATEGIC REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT

Subjects

• Estate agency
• Construction
• Property