Real Estate

Structure

The course will be delivered through a series of lectures, interactive teaching sessions, smaller group tutorials, visiting lecturers from professional real estate practice, practical sessions, study visits, and real live case studies.

Modules are assessed through a range of coursework, often based on case studies which help you to see the practical application of the subjects you are studying. There are timed, unseen examinations at the end of each year.

The Research Project is an integral part of the course. It provides the opportunity to study in-depth a subject of specific interest or of direct relevance to employment aspirations.

Modules

You will study eight modules each year. As you progresses to the final year, core modules increasingly overlap and integrate.

Year one

• Building Technology
• Law 1
• Valuation 1
• Property Transactions
• Introduction to Property Economics
• Business Finance
• Professional Practice
• Surveying

Year two

• Building Management
• Law 2
• Planning and Development
• Valuation 2
• Business and Property Finance and Taxation
• Property Market Analysis
• Property Management
• Property Agency

Year three

In the third year you will complete a research dissertation on a subject of your choosing, and select two elective modules to suit your specialist areas of interest.

• Integrating Project
• Contemporary Issues in Property and Society
• Practice Management
• Property Investment Finance and Valuation
• Dissertation

Plus choice of TWO electives selected from a broad range, including:

• Commercial Property Management
• Game & Deer Management
• Rural Business Diversification
• Marketing Communication
• Management Accounting
• Corporate Finance
• Urban Design and Development
• Heritage Property
• Consumer Behaviour
• Entrepreneurship
• Wine Industry
• Advanced Residential Agency

Course modules are subject to change.

Work experience

Our staff support individual students in finding first and second year work experience placements and internships during the holidays. This work experience is invaluable to enable students to make their own contacts in the profession and gain an understanding of the diverse nature of professional work so that they can decide on the type of work that they would most enjoy. Many students will gain work experience in residential, commercial and leisure property, but some may decide to broaden their horizons to include the rural sector, as well.

If they so wish, students are free to take a year out of their studies after the successful completion of the 2nd year in order to commence the first year of their Assessment of Professional Competence (APC). In such circumstances, students would be required to find their own employment and apply individually to the RICS for the work to qualify for the APC. They would then be permitted to return to complete the final year of the degree.