MGMT 170
Real Estate Finance and Investments
Description: Lecture, three hours. Exploration of fundamentals of residential and commercial real estate finance, investment, and development. Study of qualitative concepts and quantitative tools necessary to develop real estate decision-making skills. Analysis of variety of case studies of finance, investment, and development projects from U.S., Europe, China, and Japan that highlight opportunities, risks, challenges, and solutions that were unique to each situation. Use of specially prepared Excel models to understand and evaluate financial aspects of transactions, consideration of macroeconomic context, and discussion of its potential impact on real estate finance and investment decisions. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Fall 2021 - prof. karlan is a real estate professional and it shows. he has a lot of industry experience and i enjoyed hearing his stories, deals he'd made, and take on current market trends. the topics in this class are very applicable for people that want to go into the industry (and honestly just pretty interesting in general in my opinion). i liked the structure of lectures, which often went discussion of key terms/topics --> news article or personal experience he had with said topic --> clicker/participation question. that being said, even though i got an A in the class, i disliked how heavy an emphasis he put on learning the financial calculations and real estate computations. if you memorize how to use the 4 excel spreadsheets he gives you, you know how to do half of the problems of his tests already without using your brain.
Fall 2021 - prof. karlan is a real estate professional and it shows. he has a lot of industry experience and i enjoyed hearing his stories, deals he'd made, and take on current market trends. the topics in this class are very applicable for people that want to go into the industry (and honestly just pretty interesting in general in my opinion). i liked the structure of lectures, which often went discussion of key terms/topics --> news article or personal experience he had with said topic --> clicker/participation question. that being said, even though i got an A in the class, i disliked how heavy an emphasis he put on learning the financial calculations and real estate computations. if you memorize how to use the 4 excel spreadsheets he gives you, you know how to do half of the problems of his tests already without using your brain.
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