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Real Estate Investing Course
In a shifting investment landscape, real estate remains an essential asset class for income, diversification, and long-term growth. Taught by Columbia Business School's top real estate faculty from the School's esteemed Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate, the Real Estate Investing program offers a high-level overview of the global real estate finance and investment market, helping participants understand key trends, evaluate risks and opportunities, and make more informed investment decisions.
Program Structure
Commercial Real Estate Fundamentals and Valuation: Gain an overview of commercial real estate assets and investments and learn the foundational tools used to project, model, and analyze property cash flows. Topics include real estate pro formas, capitalization rates, and other core valuation concepts. The session also examines real estate financing, including mortgage debt and alternative sources of capital for acquisitions and investments, as well as real estate taxation, a key driver of value and returns.
Real Estate Investment Opportunities and Transactions: Through a hands-on exercise, participants will model the cash flows of a real estate investment in a format comparable to real-world industry analysis. The session also explores the legal and financial dynamics of real estate transactions, including lender rights, borrower rights, and foreclosure processes, and concludes with a discussion of value investing strategies in the real estate industry.
Real Estate Development, Housing, Data Centers, and Program Summary: Analyze a hands-on case study built around a real-world real estate investment strategy. This part broadens the discussion to major themes shaping the industry today, including real estate development, housing markets and affordable housing, and the rapid growth of data centers as an emerging asset class. The program concludes by drawing connections across sectors and summarizing the key frameworks, opportunities, and risks discussed throughout the course.
- Two sessions per year, three consecutive days at Columbia Business School
- Typical cohort consists of ~40-50 professionals and executives from a range of industries, including Real Estate, Construction, Energy, Healthcare, Consulting, and Entertainment
- Latest cohort included participants from 10 different countries including Italy, Australia, Singapore, Kuwait, Turkey, Lebanon and Congo.
Real Estate Investing Strategies Course
Online (6 weeks)
Commercial property sales in the United States totaled a record US$809 billion in 2021 according to data organization Real Capital Analytics, nearly doubling that of 2020 and exceeding the previous record of about US$600 billion in 2019. Given this trend, real estate investing is seeing abundant opportunities across emerging and established sectors. However, with volatility in markets and lending rates, maximizing returns on real estate investments requires a deep understanding of the nuances, variables, and risks that drive ever-fluctuating property markets. A challenge for most traditional investors is that the real estate market is less liquid and transparent than stocks, and it's often difficult to get the necessary information all in one place to make fully informed investment decisions.
Taught by faculty from Columbia Business School's esteemed Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate, this program provides a quality hands-on learning experience in just six weeks to prepare you with the real estate valuation skills and investment methodologies to support smarter investment decisions. You will gain industry-leading skills in creating financial models, analyzing cash flows, determining values, and measuring returns of real estate investments.
- Duration: 6 Weeks, 6 modules, 4-6 hours per week