APPLIED REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRACK (AREIT) II

REALEST 852

Focuses heavily on building the investment pipeline, analyzing and underwriting new real estate private placement investments, understanding the governance structures, and benchmarking Fund investment returns to industry standards. Investments opportunities that meet investment criteria expectations will be presented to an external Investment Committee of the Wisconsin Real Estate Alumni Association.

REALEST 540

Understanding and applying both investment and real estate concepts to the Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) market. Emphasis is on applying investment and real estate concepts to a specific REIT.

REALEST 841

Focuses on investment processes, guidelines, governance, underwriting, company valuation, sector analysis and portfolio analysis. Allows selected students to function as portfolio managers by investing real money (endowment to the real estate program) in listed real estate companies, primarily real estate investment trusts (REITs).

REALEST 530

A capstone focused on comprehensively underwriting commercial real estate. Investment analysis will be performed for a variety of real estate property types from the perspective of various real estate professionals, such as the property/asset manager, finance professional, leasing broker, acquisitions specialist, portfolio manager, and investment legal/risk team. The investment analysis will emphasize the importance of value-creation through capital investment and effective income and expense management.

REALEST 851

Focuses on the real estate private equity organization through constructing investment criteria statements, vetting investment opportunities, implementing investment processes, and presenting the opportunities to the WREAA Fund Investment Committee.