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Lowest historical GPA first. At least 100 letter grades over the five years through the selected term. Grades reflect past outcomes, not workload or a guaranteed result.
18 courses
Ranked courses have at least 100 recorded letter grades.
Real Estate Finance covers fundamentals of real estate finance and investment, including qualitative and quantitative characteristics of commercial real estate, cash flow projections, valuation approaches, and debt and equity investor.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Covers real estate valuation techniques including property, market, and legal analysis, highest and best use, and the sales comparison, income, and cost approaches applied to commercial property types.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026This course covers financing and leverage in real estate investment, alternative financing types, financial structure valuation, equity sources, and mortgage securitization.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Introduction to building real estate models for acquisition and development transactions in residential and commercial sectors using Excel.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2023–Spring 2026Focuses on the study of the allocation of scarce resources across space. Uses economic methods to analyze urban real estate. Topics covered include the determinants of real estate values, the location decisions of households and firms, land use, urban growth and agglomeration, real estate pricing, cycles, development, housing market and policies, and sustainable development.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Stephen Malpezzi, Yongheng Deng
One student found the class very easy, while another reported some assignments were difficult. Instructors went over homework in class, which helped make those challenging tasks much easier to complete.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Covers real estate valuation techniques including highest and best use, market comparison, discounted cash flow, income capitalization, cost approaches, and appraisal ethics.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Introduction to real estate modeling using ARGUS for building models of acquisition transactions for office and retail mall properties.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2023–Spring 2026Capstone course in real estate investment analysis focusing on underwriting commercial real estate across multiple property types and professional perspectives.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026An introduction to real estate private equity investment covering analysis, terms, return metrics, and structures for investment decisions.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026Analyzes current issues in real estate law focusing on acquisition, leasing, financing, and development of US projects.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Commercial Property Development covers creating industrial, office, retail, and hotel properties through strategy, feasibility analysis, site planning, capital costs, construction, and financial structuring, emphasizing case studies.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Real Estate Capital Markets examines the structure and pricing of MBS and REITs, along with strategic considerations for institutional investors in real estate.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025A real-world capstone focusing on real estate investment analysis and presentation, covering the process from project conception to asset disposition.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Urban Economics analyzes spatial relationships in the urban economy, covering land, labor, and housing markets, transport, governance, and regional models with an interdisciplinary focus.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Private real estate equity investment course focusing on building investment pipelines, underwriting private placements, governance structures, and benchmarking fund returns.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026A practical guide to real estate law analyzing current issues in acquisition, leasing, financing, and development within specific US project contexts.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026An introductory overview of the real estate process covering development, permitting, transactions, economics, financing, valuation, leasing, and management.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · David Gevers
Grades are based on a few short papers and two exams; the exams were extremely easy, and the papers required little effort to complete.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Contemporary Topics explores advanced subject areas possibly to be introduced into the business curriculum.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026