Role track
Public-Sector Real Estate Advisor
Brief land and development with an economic case.
Required sequence
Do these in orderUrban Economics for Real Estate
Why cities concentrate activity and where value moves next — agglomeration and subcentres, planning and value capture, accessibility and infrastructure timing, housing and affordability, and how to turn all of it into advice about one site.
Public-Sector Real Estate Advisory
Advising the public sector on real estate and economic development: understanding the government client and the fiscal reality that constrains it, forecasting demand for authorities, appraising economic zones, tourism and giga-projects including the ways they underperform, structuring PPPs and managing the contract across the decades that follow, releasing public land and capturing the value public action creates, writing the public-sector strategy note, and turning it into an implementation plan with the institutional capacity, measurement and integrity safeguards it requires.
Market Research Fundamentals
Run a real estate market study end to end — from question to defensible recommendation. Framing the study around the decision it serves, mapping supply and weighting a pipeline by evidence of progress, building top-down and bottom-up demand and reconciling them when they diverge, pricing, absorption and benchmarking, primary research and triangulating weak data, and reading where the market sits in its cycle so a forecast carries a basis, a horizon and a falsifier. Ends with an applied toolkit of templates and two worked market studies.
Optional depth
Add these to specialise once the core sequence is done.
Highest and Best Use in Practice
Determine the use that is legally permissible, physically possible, financially feasible and maximally productive — then price it, compare it against real alternatives, and write a recommendation that survives challenge.
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.
What you produce
Final project
A public-sector strategy note — a site or district brief, the economic rationale, delivery options, and stakeholder considerations.
Add your market. Pair any track with a Regional Market Structure course (Egypt, KSA, UAE & GCC, Morocco, Africa, MENA, or UK & Europe) so the skills land in the market you actually work in.
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