MSc Real Estate

This module looks at how real estate surveyors optimise the value of real estate, firstly through the effective management of property on a day-to-day basis, maintaining landlord and tenant relationships; and then more strategically by the management of property as a financial investment and maximising returns.

Property management of commercial real estate covers issues relating to planned maintenance, health and safety, landlord and tenant relationships, and service charges.

In general, any matter associated with the smooth running of a property. Asset management of commercial real estate considers property from an investment point of view, to maximise financial returns and includes the management of portfolios of property.

You will look at matters such as lease restructuring, valuation, refurbishment programmes, obsolescence, redevelopment and adaption.

You will learn about data collection and analysis and the importance of a dynamic management strategy identifying risks and future trends, to retain asset values.

This module examines the built environment sector, markets, and organisations at a local, national, and international level and the impact of government economic policy and globalisation on the sector.

It examines the principles underlying the relationship between economic theory and the built environment sector.

You will study how the sector makes effective use of resources and how, in the move towards decarbonising our economies, the environment can be afforded protection through embedding sustainable principles in our practice.

This module brings together your knowledge of economics, valuation, and development. You will consider property as an investment, study approaches to risk and returns, and explore various financial models for property development and ownership.

You will compare property against other investment classes and appreciate the types of property investors, including the role of institutional investors in the market.

This module is about the process of commercial real estate development and its commercial drivers.

An understanding of planning and development is essential to those working in the commercial real estate sector and increasingly growing into a specialist area of practice.

Surveyors can play a vital role in promoting effective land use as a primary driver of sustainable development.

Valuation is an essential skill for commercial real estate professionals and forms the basis of financing decisions, transactional and development advice, dispute resolution and statutory applications.

This module develops students’ skills in valuing commercial property applying traditional and contemporary methods of valuation over a range of contexts.

The module focuses on the drivers of real estate value, the standard methods of valuation and the appropriate situations for their use, together with introducing innovations in valuation methods.

You will learn the importance of market data in valuation, the sources of this data and how to validate and interpret it. Throughout the module there is an emphasis on the importance of following professional standards in this area of work and of ethical behaviour.

You will be presented with authentic scenarios and examples to help with your understanding.

The module aims to develop a critical awareness of the background and drivers for sustainable development.

It will explore the development of the sustainability agenda, different approaches to sustainable development and the key trends in society that affect, and are affected by, the built environment.

It will consider how climate change, urbanisation and other factors are placing pressure on the built environment across the globe to deliver agile and appropriate responses to challenges such as accelerated climate change, extreme weather and societal change.

The module will provide students with the opportunity to undertake an in-depth study of a subject which is of personal and subject interest in the field of the built environment.

Students may focus their research upon a topic or problem relevant to their current programme of study and based upon an academic subject of interest, their current work practice or recent work experience or placement.

The submission will take the form of a dissertation.