International Real Estate Investment and Finance - MSc
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Description
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Type
Master
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Location
Nottingham
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Duration
1 Year
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Start date
Different dates available
Our MSc International Real Estate Investment and Finance course is designed for those wishing to pursue a career in the real estate investment and finance business in international markets. It focuses on real estate markets and institutions, appraisal, finance, and investment and development valuation. It will develop the skills and abilities necessary on the advisory side as a Chartered Surveyor, or on the client side working for investors.
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About this course
Study at one of the UK's largest and most established providers of property education; NTU is ranked 5th in the UK for Building, Town and Country Planning (Guardian University Guide 2018) and our network of alumni within the property profession is extensive and wide-ranging.
Our flexible study options support part-time learners, who wish to balance employment with further study.
Study trips to live sites in the UK and abroad are included in your course fees, designed to help develop your understanding of theory in practice. Previous study trip destinations have included Budapest and Frankfurt.
Have the option of taking a professional or industrial internship, which counts towards your Masters qualification.
Learn from expert academic staff, who have established links to industry and significant industry experience.
Have the opportunity to work with an industry mentor - often an NTU alumnus. In previous years, these relationships have led to work experience and employment.
Hear from visiting industry and academic experts, some of whom are NTU alumni, who will be teaching parts of the modules, providing a ‘real life’ perspective on the topics you will be studying.
This course provides an opportunity for graduates from disciplines unrelated to real estate and construction to embark on a professional career in real estate.
This course is aimed at professionals and gradates wishing to pursue a career working internationally in the field of property investment and finance, on route to Chartered Surveyor status. It's suitable for prospective students who don't necessarily have a background in property or construction, acting as a fast-track conversion course for those with an unrelated undergraduate degree (or professional qualification) to obtain an accredited route into the industry. In addition, this course is suitable for property and construction professionals working in industry, who wish to operate in international markets.
2.2 honours degree in a subject unrelated, or partially related, to real estate or construction.
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- Commercial Property
- Appraisal
- Financial
- Construction Training
- Project
- Market
- Investment
- Real Estate
- Property
- Industry
- International
- Credit
- Construction
- Finance
- Financial Training
Course programme
contentInternational Property Markets Analysis: Mechanisms and Structures
15 credit points
Total contact hours: 36
Total non-contact hours: 114
- The growth of real estate investment internationally and the opportunities for the international investment in real estate are key factors behind the transformation of the commercial real estate industry over the past 30 years. The aim of this module is to support understanding of the institutional context within which property markets operate around the world.
- This module will examine market institutions and structures that underpin and enable the development of investable international real estate markets.
15 credit points
Total contact hours: 36
Total non-contact hours: 114
- This module will enable you to develop your knowledge, understanding and skills of valuation and appraisal of real estate. It's concerned with both existing operational and investment properties, and development opportunities focusing on commercial property.
- It will provide you with an understanding of UK valuation and appraisal theory and practice, together with an international perspective on the topic. The valuation aspect will be concerned with estimates of market value, in accordance with international valuation standards. Investment and development appraisals will be concerned with the notion of investment value - value to the investor or developer.
- In this context, appraisal encompasses a thorough consideration of financial performance and risk analysis, and includes the application of a range of valuation and appraisal techniques.
15 credit points
Total contact hours: 36
Total non-contact hours: 114
- The aim on of this module is to analyse the performance of international property markets considering their interaction with the wider economy of individual cities and countries, and what this implies for real estate investment decision making.
- Policy impacts on performance will also be considered from environmental legislation to housing policy.
15 credit points
Total contact hours: 36
Total non-contact hours: 114
- This module will enable you to evaluate economic theory within the context of real estate and construction markets, and where necessary to propose the creation and application of alternative approaches to market analysis and evaluation.
- This module will also develop your ability to evaluate and analyse how the real estate and construction professions operate and interact within the industries.
- After studying this module, you will be able to identify and analyse industry-wide problems based on an understanding of the market structure, performance, and behaviour of the industry.
15 credit points
Total contact hours: 36
Total non-contact hours: 114
- This module provides an introduction to the principles, procedures and practices of commercial estate management, property agency, and Landlord & Tenant law. It will allow you to develop an awareness of the interrelationship between property, agents, asset managers and their various clients, and to consider the implications and application of leases within the property industry.
- You will gain an understanding of the content and structure of typical commercial and residential leases, how to write a lease synopsis, and the operation and interpretation of lease clauses.The module content will familiarise you with the key areas of property management, including rent reviews, lease renewals, dilapidations, remedies for default, service charge administration, business rating, landlord's consent, and record keeping.
- You will learn how to negotiate commercial property transactions and how to document an agreement in Heads of Terms. You will also learn how to place a property on the market, manage an agency instruction, and comply with relevant legislation.
15 credit points
Total contact hours: 36
Total non-contact hours: 114
- The key aims on this module are to introduce you to forms of Built Environment research and analysis whilst providing the opportunity for you to integrate and apply the professional knowledge and skills that you will develop during the course of your MSc studies in to a real or simulated task or activity.
- The assessments that you will undertake will comprise of one individual and one group based element. The first assignment will enable you to develop your research skills whilst assessment two will take the form of a reflective report based on your own research and the practice based scenario. The practice based element may be informed and supported by a period of industry placement or work based experience, or residential field activity involving industry engagement.
15 credit points
Total contact hours: 36
Total non-contact hours: 114
- In this module, you will examine the strategic management of real estate as an investment asset. This will include examination of the characteristics of real estate as an investment asset, and the operation and performance of real estate investment markets.
- Throughout the module, real estate is considered in the wider context of the characteristics of other investment assets and the operation and behaviour of investment and financial markets.
- You will examine the characteristic and operation of both commercial and residential real estate investment markets. You will have the opportunity to evaluate a pluralist approach in considering the development of theory, in particular to critically evaluate the dominant traditional finance paradigm, with reference to the development of behavioural finance.
15 credit points
Total contact hours: 36
Total non-contact hours: 114
- In this module will enable you to understand the economic issues relative to real estate funding mechanisms, the structure of capital and real estate markets, and ways these markets operate.
- This module will introduce you to economic and financial concepts, describe the economic behaviour and characteristics of real estate markets, and show the links between real estate and the economy.
- You will examine the role of funding infrastructure and apply economic concepts to an analysis of residential and commercial property markets and the relationship between the macro-economy, real estate market performance, and financial stability.
Postgraduate Dissertation/Consultancy Project
60 credit points
Total contact hours: 16
Total non-contact hours: 584
- You will be required to specify a research question, which will examine the connections between theories and principles, business or industrial practice and research in the context of your course. You'll own and manage your own significant independent academic enquiry, which will be reported in the form of a postgraduate dissertation.
- Alternatively, you may, with the agreement of the module leader, undertake a consultancy project. However, the work must still meet the learning outcomes of the module and demonstrate application of the methodological principles of research. An investigation for your consultancy project may have been pre-identified or pre-constructed in your work environment, and framed around an issue of organisational relevance. Key relevant data may be readily available within your workplace and the outcome of the enquiry may have direct relevance to your employing organisation, or to the real estate and/or construction profession. It is important to note that a consultancy project will still require a substantive critical literature review, and consideration of methodological choices and approach, and is not simply a typical commercial consultancy report that might be produced for a client.
- Normally you will implement your research proposal, which you will develop and hand in towards the start of this module. You will undertake a literature review appropriate to the selected topic and develop and apply a relevant methodology and research design. The results of your research will be described, analysed, evaluated and discussed with reference to the literature review. You will be required to draw conclusions and make recommendations for both professional practice and further research. You will not be required to make an original contribution to knowledge to succeed, but you will be required to demonstrate rigorous application of research processes to your selected topic.
- In addition to your final dissertation/consultancy project report, you will be required to prepare a critical and reflective commentary and evaluation. Your reflective commentary will encompass the experience gained throughout your research, development of your professional and academic skills arising from the dissertation/consultancy project, and assessment of your ongoing development needs; as part of this you should produce a personal professional and academic skills development plan.
60 credit points
Total contact hours: 16
Total non-contact hours: 584
- By choosing this option, you will be required to complete a period of programme relevant internship (minimum 150 hours) and an associated research-based enquiry examining connections between theories, principles and practice; business, commercial, industrial, and professional practice and research, in the context of your course and field of internship.
- You will receive support in sourcing a placement through our Employability team, however it is your responsibility to secure your internship opportunity, and availability is not guaranteed.
- Your Practice Research Enquiry will be reported in the form of a professional report; it is expected that this report will be underpinned by rigorous and critical examination of literature within the field. This enquiry may be based around a topic that has been pre-identified and possibly partly pre-constructed in your internship environment, and framed around an issue of organisational relevance to the internship provider.
- Key relevant data may be readily available from or through the internship and the outcome of the study may well have direct relevance to the internship provider (although this is not a requirement). It is important to note that this study will require a focused critical literature review, and critical consideration of methodological choices, options and approaches. You will be required to specify the nature of your research enquiry at a formative stage of the investigation through the submission of a Practice Research Enquiry Proposal.
Additional information
International Real Estate Investment and Finance - MSc
-
College for Financial Planning
Master Online£ 13,500 -
Gist People Services
Course Online£ 35 VAT inc. -
City College Norwich
Course OnlinePrice on request -
Milpark Education
Bachelor's degree OnlinePrice on request -
University of Nottingham
Postgraduate Nottinghamshire / Classroom-basedPrice on request -
University of Phoenix
Master OnlinePrice on request -
Adkins Matchett & Toy
Course OnlinePrice on request
See all