Университет Оксфорд Брукс, MSc, Real Estate Investment Finance

The Real Estate Investment Market

This module aims to provide an understanding of the fundamentals and principles of the real estate investment market via six learning packages:

• Real estate assets, drivers and cycles
• Investment strategies and models
• Real estate lifecycles
• Real estate sectors and risks
• Real estate management – asset, fund and portfolio
• Real estate stakeholders

Applied Real Estate Valuation

This module compares and contrasts the perspectives of real estate valuer and capital market valuation when doing a valuation of real estate via the following learning packages:

• Valuation concepts and the appraisal process
• Valuation standards
• Valuation techniques
• Valuation modelling
• Sustainability and property valuations
• Due diligence

Real Estate Finance and Investment

This module provides the framework for developing an understanding of the financial and business context in which a real estate organisation functions. The learning packages include:

• Financial reporting and the property business
• Sources and costs of capital
• Investment appraisal and management of risk
• The property market and the capital markets
• Property-backed securities
• Property taxation

Legal and Regulatory Considerations

This module brings together a number of regulatory and tax principles, as well as issues that are implicit in many of the topics covered in the other modules via the following learning packages:

• Business legal structures
• Property rights and land laws
• Financial services regulatory framework
• Regulating the raising of finance
• Regulation of foreign investment and unlisted real estate funds
• Corporate social responsibility and the control of money laundering and corrupt practices

Applied Research Methods

Through the development of research skills, this module complements the overall MSc programme by providing students with the opportunity to draw on all of the core modules to inform and direct the choice of dissertation subject.