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.
Every pathway ends in a capstone project — a real deliverable, not a multiple-choice test.
Curriculum
5 courses
Investment & Acquisitions Analyst
Investment Analysis Essentials
Analyse a real estate investment the way an investment committee will read it: the two engines of return, cash flows and cap rates, NPV, IRR and the equity multiple, debt and leverage, defensible underwriting and scenario analysis in emerging markets, and the exit and hold decisions that drive most of the answer. Ends with a recommendation you can defend — including the decision to decline — and an applied toolkit of memo, model, calculator and scenario templates.
Investment & Acquisitions Analyst
Asset Management & Value Creation
Run an income-producing asset the way an owner needs it run: an evidenced business plan, the income and cost levers that actually move NOI, leasing and repositioning decisions tested against the alternative of doing nothing, the loan that constrains what the plan may attempt, performance reporting an owner can act on, and how to manage when conditions turn against you.
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, how to scope and sequence an investigation under a real timetable, and the workstreams that decide the answer — legal and title, financial and commercial including the covenant behind the income, technical and physical including statutory and fire safety compliance, and the entity, counterparty and tax questions that arise when you buy a company rather than a building. It ends with how findings become conditions, price chips, indemnities or a walk-away, how advisers are instructed and relied on, and what happens after the report. 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 actually financed and how capital reaches it: the capital stack and what each layer buys, senior debt and what the documents really control, equity structures and waterfalls, REITs and the debt capital markets, structured capital between senior and equity, portfolio construction and allocation, and raising capital across a cycle.
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, the business case for retrofit, climate and transition risk at asset level, water and embodied carbon, and ESG in the transaction and across a portfolio, with Gulf and emerging-market realities.