Asset-Class Studios
Logistics & Industrial Studio: The Last-Mile Engine
Apply the toolkit to logistics and industrial real estate across seven modules: the demand drivers behind take-up including cold chain and specialist uses, the building typologies and specification that decide suitability, leasing, covenant and the review mechanisms that capture growth, the regional markets of the GCC, KSA, UAE and Egypt, developing logistics space from site to delivery, automation and the occupier cost stack, and pricing, underwriting and exit.
The promise
Analyse logistics and industrial real estate end to end - demand drivers, typology and specification, leasing and growth capture, regional markets, development, occupier economics, and the exit.
By the end you can
- Read the demand drivers behind take-up, including cold chain and specialist uses
- Match specification and typology to the operation an occupier will actually run
- Analyse leasing, covenant and the review mechanisms that decide who captures growth
- Appraise a logistics development from site assembly through to delivery
- Underwrite an acquisition and design the exit at the point of purchase
Where this course takes you
This course is part of 1 role track, which ends in a professional deliverable.
Curriculum
Demand Drivers
What actually generates logistics take-up: e-commerce and 3PLs, manufacturing, re-export and free zones, and how to read demand for a location.
The Building & Location
The physical specifications and location attributes that make a logistics asset lettable and durable: clear height, floor loading, docks, yard, access, and obsolescence.
Leasing & Covenant
How logistics space is leased and how to assess income security: leases and rent, covenant and WAULT, and sale-and-leaseback and built-to-suit structures.
Regional Logistics Markets
Reading regional logistics markets: KSA and the Vision-2030 logistics ambition, UAE re-export and the wider Gulf, and Egypt, ports and free zones.
Developing Logistics Space
Getting a shed built: finding and securing land, the utilities and consents that actually govern the programme, choosing between speculative and pre-let delivery, and appraising a logistics development.
Automation, Operations & Occupier Economics
What the occupier is actually doing inside the shed, how automation changes the building, and why rent is a small part of the total cost that decides where they go.
Investment, Pricing & Exit in Logistics
What actually drives a logistics yield, how to underwrite an acquisition without hiding behind the covenant, and what scale and exit really deliver.
Course assessment
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The capstone project
This course ends in a real professional deliverable. Use the brief and the five criteria below to check your own work against the standard a competent professional would be held to.
Your final deliverable
Logistics Strategy Capstone: The Acquisition Recommendation
Check your work against five criteria
- Method & rigour: The right framework, applied correctly, with the working shown — not just an answer.
- Data honesty: Every figure is sourced, triangulated, or explicitly flagged “requires local market data”. Nothing is invented.
- Analysis & judgment: Assumptions are explicit, at least one alternative is weighed, and the key risks are quantified.
- Recommendation: A clear, decision-useful conclusion a professional could act on — with the conditions that qualify it.
- Communication: Structured, concise, and client-ready — the argument lands.
When it's ready
Your deliverable is ready when it meets the bar on all five criteria — work a competent professional could put in front of a client or committee.
Revising your work
The capstone is self-directed: you check your own work against the rubric. Where a criterion isn't met yet, revise that part and check it again — as many times as you need.
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