Spring 2027

Private Real Estate Equity Investment Iii: Guidelines, Governance, and Portfolios

Private real estate equity investment course focusing on building investment pipelines, underwriting private placements, governance structures, and benchmarking fund returns.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Paul Melkus

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.68 GPA, 80.6% A/AB (n=31 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.80 GPA, 92.9% A/AB (n=28 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.90 GPA, 96.2% A/AB (n=26 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Build a pipeline of potential investment opportunities

  • Underwrite private equity offering equity memoranda

  • Evaluate the viability of the real estate investment manager (sponsor)

  • Present offering memoranda analysis and underwriting to the Fund Investment Board

  • Benchmark Fund investments against industry standards

  • Understand the private equity organization’s roles and responsibilities, the investment guidelines, and governance structures

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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REAL EST 851

REALEST 852

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.90 GPA, 96.2% A/AB (n=26 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

PAUL MELKUS is recorded teaching in Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.68 GPA, 80.6% A/AB (n=31 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.80 GPA, 92.9% A/AB (n=28 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.90 GPA, 96.2% A/AB (n=26 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Building an investment pipeline for potential real estate opportunities
  • Analyzing and underwriting new real estate private placement investments
  • Private equity organization roles, investment guidelines, and governance structures
  • Benchmarking fund investment returns against industry standards
  • Evaluating the viability of real estate investment managers or sponsors
  • Presenting offering memoranda analysis and underwriting to investment committees

Skills

  • Building an investment pipeline for potential real estate opportunities
  • Analyzing and underwriting new real estate private placement investments
  • Understanding private equity organization roles, investment guidelines, and governance structures
  • Benchmarking fund investment returns against industry standards
  • Evaluating the viability of real estate investment managers or sponsors
  • Presenting offering memoranda analysis and underwriting to investment committees

Grades

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REALEST 852 · Spring 2027

Private Real Estate Equity Investment III: Guidelines, Governance, and Portfolios

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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