Career pathway
Investment & Acquisitions Analyst
Screen deals, build investment memos, analyse returns, and present to an investment committee.
Who it's for
Acquisition and investment teams.
The capability you build
Screen deals, build investment memos, analyse returns, and present to an investment committee.
Capstone deliverable
An investment-committee memo for a proposed acquisition or development deal.
Finish the pathway — including its capstone project — and your certificate is issued automatically, with a verifiable ID employers can check.
Curriculum
5 courses
Investment & Acquisitions Analyst
Investment Analysis Essentials
Underwriting fundamentals: cash flows, cap rates, and returns under uncertainty.
Investment & Acquisitions Analyst
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.
Investment & Acquisitions Analyst
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.
Investment & Acquisitions Analyst
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.
Investment & Acquisitions Analyst
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.