Investment 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.

Valuation Essentials

How professionals estimate market value and defend it: bases of value, measurement and the unit of comparison, the comparable, income, residual and cost approaches, hope value and planning risk, operational and specialised property where the business is the value, and how purpose changes the work — valuation for lending, for financial reporting and for disputes, with the independence, uncertainty and reporting discipline that a signed figure requires. Written with emphasis on thin-data emerging markets.

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.

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.

Financial Feasibility & Financial Modelling

Build and defend a real estate feasibility model from first principles — and know exactly where its precision stops being real. What a model is and what it cannot tell you, revenue assumptions tested against evidence rather than hope, the cost stack and where estimates go wrong, residual land value, the time value of money, how programme and finance turn time into cost, and sensitivity and risk. Ends with an applied toolkit of model, assumptions, cost and sensitivity templates and two worked cases, including re-running a scheme when costs overrun and sales slow.

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.