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Overview
Real Estate investment MSc Who is it for?
The postgraduate degree in Real Estate Investment is your gateway to a successful career across the multidisciplinary real estate profession or the broader investment and finance environment. Choose this course if you’re looking for roles and a career in real estate investment strategy, capital markets and fund management, real estate finance but also in all areas of real estate including professional services.
You are a graduate with the equivalent of a UK upper second degree with a good background in quantitative techniques. You may be looking to boost your real estate career, or just starting out – either way, you already have an interest in real estate and you’re ready to develop strong analytical and practical skills that are in high demand across the real estate profession.
Accreditation
Accredited by The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and recognised by the Investment Property Forum.
Why choose this course?
- Focus on investment strategy, finance, fund management, risk analysis, financial modelling
- Connect with professionals and employers from London’s thriving real estate industry via seminars, events, guest speakers and the Bayes Real Estate Club
- Comprehensive academic learning for innovative thinking and a thorough, grounded knowledge, ready to apply in industry
- Utilise the exceptional Business School resources to realise your potential for top-quality professional skills.
Course objectives
On the Bayes MSc in Real Estate Investment, you’ll learn at a fast pace and a good understanding of basic quantitative methods, or have work experience within the industry will be helpful. Ahead of enrolling on the programme we work on improving your basic quantitative skills though pre-study material and exercises.
You’ll start with the core skills of valuation, financial modelling, development appraisal, market analysis of core and alternative real estate sectors, statistical applications to the real estate market and investment and acquire knowledge of investment decisions in practice. You’ll then take on advanced methods in financial modelling, portfolio construction and diversification, debt finance and investments, forecasting, and examine in more detail the investment markets created by Real Estate Investment Trusts, unlisted property funds, securitised debt new forms of investment.
You’ll learn in a robust framework of financial and real estate market theory, financial modelling and quantitative methods in investment analysis. You will receive hands-on training on up-to-date industry techniques and practical tools in our extensive computer lab programme.
MSc Real Estate equips you for roles across all types of real estate business and is open to those with previous degrees or work experience in disciplines involving basic quantitative analysis and with career interest in investment and finance.
Teaching staff
Your Course Director will be Professor Sotiris Tsolacos, who is an academic with years of practical experience. Previously he was with Henley Business School and held posts at JLL and Property Portfolio Research/Costar from 1999 to 2013. He is working closely with property service providers, investment managers and private equity firms on a range of topical real estate themes. He is co-author of the standard textbooks Applied Quantitative Analysis for Real Estate and Real Estate Modelling and Forecasting. He is the recipient of the European Real Estate Society’s Achievement Award.
Professor Sotiris Tsolacos teaches on the Applied Statistics module, Applied Financial Analysis module, Economics and Market Analysis module and Debt Finance and Investment module.
Other teaching staff and moduels they teach on
Professor David Blake is Head of The Pensions Institute and an investment expert.
- Investment Markets module.
Christopher Bourn has more than 25 years' real estate experience, which includes private equity, investment banks and property company investor developers, with coverage in the UK and Pan European markets.
- Appraisal and Financial Modelling
- ARGUS software training
- Debt Finance and Investments
Stephen Lee is an internationally recognised academic, who sits on the boards of the European Real Estate Society and the International Real Estate Society. He has published over 100 papers.
- Appraisal and Financial Modellng
- Portfolios and Asset Allocation
Alex is Course Director for the MSc Real Estate programme and the Director of the Real Estate Research Centre at Bayes. He has previously held senior roles with Macquarie, Apax Partners, CSFB and BZW. He is currently Chairman of the Research Committee of the European Public Real Estate Association and runs a consultancy business advising institutions on their listed real estate strategies. He has authored numerous industry publications and academic papers. Alex is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
- Investment Vehicles
Accreditation details
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) accredits the course, enabling graduates to enter the RICS Assessment of Professional Competence (APC).
The Investment Property Forum (IPF) in the UK recognises the programme as a gateway to the real estate investment field. The successful completion of the programme provides fast-track membership, providing that the candidate has two years of relevant professional experience. As a student on the programme, you can take the IPF Student membership for free for the duration of your studies to access IPF’s extensive seminar programme, research reports and the online Resource Library.