RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: ( REAL EST 410 and 415 ) or declared in the Business Exchange program Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify features of the built environment that distinguish real estate from other asset classes. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Summarize the development process from project conception and financing to asset disposition, with a particular focus on the role of the developer as the strategic coordinator of many disciplines and manager of risk analysis. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Identify and illustrate the “Land Ethic”, and that real estate is a social enterprise as well as private business and, therefore, that external benefits, ethical considerations, and sustainability are important criteria for real estate decisions alongside traditional measures of profitability. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Analyze how to network and cooperate with local, state, and national professionals to obtain insights and information needed for the development process, share market data and, perspectives, discuss investment ideas and identify sources of material and financial resources. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Differentiate and apply market, linkage, and macroeconomic data for the purpose of forecasting real estate trends, appraising value, and making prudent and sustainable investment decisions, and prepare a real estate development analysis, financing, and valuation principles. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify features of the built environment that distinguish real estate from other asset classes. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Summarize the development process from project conception and financing to asset disposition, with a particular focus on the role of the developer as the strategic coordinator of many disciplines and manager of risk analysis. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Identify and illustrate the “Land Ethic”, and that real estate is a social enterprise as well as private business and, therefore, that external benefits, ethical considerations, and sustainability are important criteria for real estate decisions alongside traditional measures of profitability. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Analyze how to network and cooperate with local, state, and national professionals to obtain insights and information needed for the development process, share market data and, perspectives, discuss investment ideas and identify sources of material and financial resources. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Differentiate and apply market, linkage, and macroeconomic data for the purpose of forecasting real estate trends, appraising value, and making prudent and sustainable investment decisions, and prepare a real estate development analysis, financing, and valuation principles. Audience: Graduate