Course catalog
Courses built like consulting engagements
Practical, market-specific courses across valuation, investment, development, and the regional markets you work in.
Not sure where to start? Follow a role track for a sequenced, job-first path through these courses.
Real Estate Foundations
Understand what real estate markets are, how asset classes behave, and how to read a market the way a consultant does. The essential grounding for every other pathway.
What Real Estate Markets Actually Are
A precise mental model of real estate markets: what trades, why prices move, and why local knowledge matters so much in opaque markets.
Asset Classes and Demand Drivers
How residential, retail, office, industrial, and hospitality assets behave, and the demand drivers behind each.
Professional Ethics & Conduct in Real Estate
The ethical judgment institutional real-estate work actually demands: managing conflicts of interest, disclosing honestly, using market data with integrity, and handling client money and bribery pressure in emerging-market practice.
Real Estate Market Research & Consulting
Master supply mapping, demand analysis, competitive benchmarking, primary research, and pricing and absorption — the core of advisory-quality market work.
Market Research Fundamentals
Supply mapping, demand analysis, competitive benchmarking, and pricing and absorption — the toolkit of real estate advisory.
Advanced Market Research & Feasibility Studies
Run a full commissioned market and feasibility study end-to-end: advanced demand modelling, absorption and pricing under uncertainty, highest-and-best-use within a study, and producing a defensible study in a thin-data market.
Consulting & Client Advisory
The skills that separate a good analyst from a trusted adviser — scoping and pricing engagements, presenting findings, defending assumptions under challenge, and managing the client relationship.
Valuation, Feasibility & Highest and Best Use
Work through highest and best use, unit mix, revenue and cost assumptions, phasing, absorption, and residual land value.
Highest and Best Use in Practice
Determine the use that is legally permissible, physically possible, financially feasible, and maximally productive.
Financial Feasibility & Financial Modelling
Build and defend a real estate feasibility model from first principles: revenue and cost assumptions, residual land value, the time value of money (NPV, IRR, DCF), financing, and sensitivity. Every quantitative idea is taught with an interactive calculator you can drive yourself.
Valuation Essentials
How professionals estimate market value and defend it: bases of value, the comparable, income, residual and cost approaches, and writing and reviewing a valuation, with emphasis on thin-data emerging markets.
Development Management
Managing a real estate development from land to delivery: the project lifecycle, the go/no-go feasibility gate, design and approvals, procurement, cost and programme control, construction-phase risk, and handover. This is the delivery complement to the feasibility courses — how a development manager actually orchestrates people, money, consultants, and contractors to turn an appraisal into a built, sold, and operating asset.
Real Estate Investment & Asset Management
From investment analysis and underwriting to portfolio strategy and asset management in volatile markets.
Investment Analysis Essentials
Underwriting fundamentals: cash flows, cap rates, and returns under uncertainty.
Asset Management & Value Creation
The owner-side discipline of growing an asset's income and value - business plans, NOI growth, leasing strategy, capex and repositioning, ESG, reporting, and the hold-vs-sell decision. This course takes the perspective of the asset manager acting for an owner or fund, translating an investment thesis into a live business plan and executing the value levers that move net operating income and, through it, capital value.
Real Estate Due Diligence
How to investigate a real estate acquisition before you commit. This course teaches the due diligence framework and red-flag thinking across the three core workstreams -- legal/title, financial/commercial, and technical/physical -- and shows how to turn findings into conditions, price chips, or a walk-away. Built for emerging-market realism, where title and registration risk is acute and thin data makes physical and commercial verification decisive.
Capital Markets, Debt & REITs
How real estate is financed and how capital is raised — the capital stack, debt, equity structures, REITs and listed real estate, and capital raising through the cycle, with emerging-market capital realities.
ESG & Sustainability in Real Estate
What ESG means for real estate value and how to act on it — energy and carbon, certifications, social and governance factors, and building the business case for sustainable and retrofit investment, with Gulf and emerging-market realities.
Hospitality & Tourism Real Estate
Demand generators, key performance metrics, operator structures, and feasibility for hospitality and tourism assets.
Hospitality Feasibility Foundations
Demand generators, KPIs, and operator structures for hotels and resorts.
Hotel Operations & Asset Management
How a hotel actually makes money and how owners protect and grow that value — the operating P&L, revenue management, cost and profit, the owner-operator relationship, and repositioning for value.
Branded Residences & Mixed-Use Hospitality
The economics and structuring of branded residences and mixed-use hospitality — why brands command a premium, how deals are structured, and how to appraise them, with a Gulf and emerging-market focus.
Retail, Offices & Commercial Real Estate
Leasing, tenant mix, covenant strength, and the drivers of value across retail and office markets.
Commercial Leasing & Value
How leases, tenant mix, and covenant strength drive commercial value.
Occupier & Tenant Representation
Advising occupiers and representing tenants: reading the occupier's business need, defining requirements, comparing stay-vs-go and lease-vs-own, and negotiating on the tenant's behalf.
Winning Business: Lead Generation & Client Development
Build a durable business development system for commercial brokerage: define a patch and own it, prospect with market insight rather than pleas, grow referrals and professional reputation, and convert interest into signed mandates.
Urban Economics & Economic Development
Urban economics, demand forecasting, industrial and logistics zones, and policy-linked real estate analysis for public-sector work.
Urban Economics for Real Estate
Why cities concentrate activity, and how policy shapes real estate demand.
Public-Sector Real Estate Advisory
Advising the public sector on real estate and economic development: understanding the government client, forecasting demand for authorities, appraising economic zones, tourism and giga-projects, structuring PPPs, and writing the public-sector strategy note.
Real Estate Data, AI & Geospatial Workflows
Responsible scraping, data cleaning, outlier handling, GIS mapping, and AI-assisted research for real estate.
Professional Practice, Client Management & Report Writing
Structure engagements, manage clients, and write market commentary and reports to an institutional standard.
Regional Market Structures
Market structure, transparency, financing, and demand drivers for specific regions. Real estate is not universal - this layer teaches what changes across markets.
Egypt Real Estate Market Structure
A four-module foundation in how the Egyptian real estate market actually works: its developer-led, off-plan, installment-financed structure; the geography of Greater Cairo and the coast; off-plan and developer-delivery risk; and how to gather and triangulate evidence in a low-transparency market.
KSA Real Estate Market Structure
Vision 2030 and state-led demand: giga-projects, Riyadh office shortage dynamics, housing programs, and tourism-led development.
UAE & GCC Real Estate Market Structure
Freehold zones, expat ownership, master developers, off-plan cycles, service charges, and Grade A office dynamics.
Africa Real Estate Market Structure
Data scarcity, land and title risk, infrastructure constraints, informal markets, urbanisation-led demand, and the role of DFIs.
Morocco Real Estate Market Structure
How the Moroccan real estate market works — its tourism-and-industry-led economy, the key cities, ownership and tourism real estate, and doing defensible work in a Francophone, moderately-transparent market. You will learn how the dirham and Morocco's relatively diversified economy shape demand, how to read Casablanca, Marrakech, Agadir and Tangier, how foreign ownership and titling actually function, and how to build an evidence base where data is thin.
MENA Cross-Market Comparison
Compare and choose between MENA real estate markets: a comparison framework, the demand and capital map, how sectors and risk differ by market, and deploying capital or advising across borders.
UK & Europe: The Institutional Benchmark
How a transparent institutional real estate market works — data and indices, institutional leases and valuation standards, yields and cycles — used as a calibration benchmark for analysts working in opaque emerging markets.
Emerging Markets: Method When Data Is Scarce
How the analytical toolkit changes when transparency is low — triangulation, risk premia, currency and liquidity, and defensible judgement.
Asset-Class Studios
Short, applied studios that take the research, feasibility, valuation, leasing, and asset-management toolkit and apply it to one asset class at a time — residential, office, retail, logistics, and beyond.
Residential Studio: Market, Product & Sales
Apply the core toolkit to residential: reading residential demand, designing product and unit mix to demand, and running an off-plan launch with pricing, payment plans, and absorption.
Office Studio: Occupier Demand & Grade-A Value
Apply the core real estate toolkit to the office asset class: what drives office demand, the occupier and the workplace, office leasing and value, and how to read regional office markets from Riyadh's RHQ-driven Grade-A shortage to Cairo and the wider GCC.
Retail Studio: Catchment, Tenant Mix & Turnover
Apply the core real estate toolkit to retail: catchment and demand, formats and tenant mix, turnover-based leasing, and repositioning underperforming schemes.
Logistics & Industrial Studio: The Last-Mile Engine
Apply the toolkit to logistics and industrial real estate: the demand drivers behind take-up, the building and location attributes that matter, leasing and covenant analysis, and reading regional logistics markets across the GCC, KSA's Vision-2030 logistics push, UAE re-export, and Egypt's ports and free zones.
Mixed-Use & Master-Planned Studio
Apply the toolkit to mixed-use and master-planned schemes: why uses are mixed, master-planning and phasing, development and governance, and mixed-use feasibility and value.
Land & Development Sites Studio
A studio applying the toolkit to raw and serviced land and to development sites. You will value and price land, assess a site, run highest-and-best-use analysis for land, and structure land deals — with emerging-market realism across Egypt off-plan land and developer land banks, GCC master-planned land, and African title and tenure risk.
Data Centres & Digital Infrastructure Studio
A studio that applies the real-estate toolkit to data centres and digital infrastructure — why they are real estate plus infrastructure, what drives their demand and location, how deals and leases are structured, and how to appraise the capex-intensive investment case.
Healthcare & Life Sciences Real Estate Studio
Apply the toolkit to healthcare and life-sciences real estate — hospitals, clinics and labs as operator-driven assets, the demographic demand, operator and lease structures, and the feasibility and risks.
Living Sectors Studio: Student, Co-Living & Senior
Apply the toolkit to the operational living sectors — student housing (PBSA), co-living, senior/assisted living and serviced apartments. Understand their demand drivers, operating models, and per-bed feasibility, where you count beds not units and operations drive income.
Tourism & Leisure Destinations Studio
Apply the toolkit to tourism and leisure destinations — resorts, entertainment and integrated giga-destinations — their demand thesis, how they are structured and phased, and how to appraise the destination business case.
Co-Development, Off-Plan & Collective Ownership
Understand and evaluate co-development, buyer-cooperative, SPV, and consortium structures — and the off-plan risks that sink them.
