CONCENTRATION IN REAL ESTATE FINANCE AND INVESTMENT
This concentration is designed for students with a career interest in one of the five specializations in real estate: management and operations; finance and transactions; urban planning and management of public sector enterprises research; market analysis and decision support; development and entrepreneurship. Students typically take four to six courses for their concentration. In order to provide flexibility, the concentration requires only two of the current Finance department offerings in real estate and then permits students to select the remaining courses in their concentration plus their electives from a list of Economics, Finance, Marketing, Law, Public Policy, Sociology, and Geography courses.
Required Courses:
FIN 530 Real Estate Investment and Finance
FIN 531 Real Estate Finance
Select Two or More of the Following to Complete the Concentration and Electives:
BLW 798 Legal Issues in Real Estate
ECO 550 Regional and Urban Economics
FIN 533 Real Estate Valuation
FIN 535 Real Estate Investment
FIN 596 Real Estate Seminar (variable topic course, may be taken more than once)
CONCENTRATION IN REAL ESTATE CONTINUED
FIN 798 Special Topics in Real Estate (variable topic course, may be taken more than once)
GEO 476 Geo-demographics
LAW 444 Environmental Law
LAW 459 Real Estate Finance and Commercial Development
LAW 487 Housing and Urban Development Law
LAW 488 Land Use Planning
MKT 529 Segmentation and Targeting
MPS 571 Metropolitan Planning with Geodemographic Systems
MPS 573 Urban and Community Analysis
SOC 420 Urban Sociology
SOC 421 Urban Anthropology
SOC 424 Sociology of Housing
In general, the optional courses are offered once a year and students should plan accordingly. The FIN 798 and FIN 596 topics vary each year, one or two of each will be offered each year. The Law School courses listed above are offered infrequently. The Law School courses will be available to students selecting the concentration with permission of the Director of the Real Estate Center and with Business Law 500 as a prerequisite.
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