Undergraduate Certificate in Real Estate Management

This course is an introduction to the terminology, concepts, career opportunities, and basic practices of real estate. Course topics include real estate concepts such as urban economics and market analysis, appraisal, brokerage, finance, investment analysis, and taxation.

This course examines the management and administrative activities associated with a real estate practice. The course topics include structure of leases, real estate development, negotiations, marketing, and other issues associated with the real estate practice.

This course is an investigation of institutions, instruments, and structures by which investment in real estate is financed. It reviews capital markets, the sources and use of real estate funds, and the role of government in real estate finance. The course also covers technical skills involved in real estate finance, to include risk analysis, portfolio theory and management, REITs, and capital market trends.

This course is a study of the theory and application of methods to value real property. The course topics include real estate appraisal systematic methods, valuation of residential and income producing property, influences on market value, and trends in the appraisal industry.

This course is a study of the history of property management, major functions of property managers, including their legal, maintenance, accounting and administrative responsibility in the management of various types of property.

This course is a study of real estate law, with emphasis on those portions of real estate law that are essential to the processes and functions of the real estate purchase, administration, financing, land use regulation, financial instruments, leases, and property rights.