Pathway
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.
Courses in this pathway
10 courses
Asset-Class Studios
Residential Studio: Market, Product & Sales
Apply the core toolkit to residential: reading residential demand, designing product and unit mix to demand, running an off-plan launch with pricing, payment plans and absorption, and then the decisions that follow — build-to-rent, the affordability and mortgage constraints that decide who can buy, and the development appraisal that settles whether the scheme happens at all.
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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, how to read regional office markets from Riyadh's RHQ-driven Grade-A shortage to Cairo and the wider GCC, and then the owner's side — diagnosing and repositioning an underperforming building, judging flexible space and operational income, and underwriting an acquisition.
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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.
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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.
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Mixed-Use & Master-Planned Studio
Apply the toolkit to mixed-use and master-planned schemes across seven modules: why uses are mixed and at what scale, master-planning, phasing and movement, development agreements and governance, feasibility and value, the ground plane that decides whether the scheme works as a place, how residential, hotel and workspace behave inside a mix, and the ownership structure and exit that determine what it is worth afterwards.
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Land & Development Sites Studio
A studio on land as an asset: how it is valued, how a site is assessed, what use it should take, and how deals over it are structured, controlled and exited. You will build a residual land valuation and test it against comparables on a buildable basis, read a site on foot against the desk record, run highest-and-best-use analysis and test it against absorption, secure land through options, promotion agreements and assemblies, price the servicing gap and the abnormal costs that come off land value one for one, and manage a land bank as a pipeline through the cycle — with emerging-market realism across Egypt off-plan land and developer land banks, GCC master-planned land, and African title and tenure risk.
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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.
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Healthcare & Life Sciences Real Estate Studio
Apply the toolkit to healthcare and life-sciences real estate across seven modules: the care settings and what each demands of a building, demographic and payer demand alongside the supply and competition analysis that is usually missing, operator covenant and lease structures including multi-tenant medical office, developing and delivering clinical space against the licensing clock, the life sciences building and what decides its tenant market, and how healthcare assets are priced, underwritten and exited.
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Living Sectors Studio: Student, Co-Living & Senior
A studio on the operational living sectors — student accommodation, co-living, senior living and serviced apartments — where services, not space, drive the income. You will separate the formats and what regulation permits each, test demand against affordability rather than need, build a per-bed model and the accommodation P&L, configure the building itself against bed count, amenity and the back-of-house operations depend on, run the asset through lease-up, pricing and retention, hold an operator to account, and underwrite and exit an operator-backed income — with emerging-market realism across the Gulf and Egypt.
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Tourism & Leisure Destinations Studio
A studio on tourism and leisure destinations — resorts, entertainment districts and integrated giga-projects where the demand is manufactured rather than captured. You will read a destination thesis against source markets and a competitive set defined by substitution, structure the master developer, operator and public-sector relationships, sequence phasing, cross-subsidy and enabling infrastructure, size and structure the hotel component, build the visitor economy around dwell time and per-visitor spend rather than visitor numbers, and plan how the capital comes back out — with emerging-market realism across the Gulf, Egypt and the Red Sea.