The subject of this course is commercial real estate law: legal ownership interests, choice of entity, sales and closings, and lease, note, and deed of trust analysis, among other topics.

Methods and techniques used in maximizing the productive potential of a development site. Emphasis is placed on analyzing the opportunities and challenges inherent in every property, and through efficient infrastructure and product design and construction, creating a product that meets or exceeds development expectations.

This course focuses on the management of the land development project from land acquisition through project dissolution. Emphasis is placed on both office and field operations during the pre-development, development construction, and post development phases.

Techniques and data sources for market analysis for development; analysis for housing development; trade area analysis and market analysis for retail development; analysis for office, industrial parks and for specialized development.

Interface between the physical and financial dimensions in the design and development process to achieve building and project economics; creating a physical product and a financial venture that responds to social and environmental concerns and to market economy and feasibility analysis.

Strategies, methods and techniques used in residential land development including: residential land development business organizations and ownership structures, single family lot deal structuring, feasibility, financing and financial analysis, planning and design.

Commercial land development program identification, implementation and completion strategies utilized to produce socially acceptable, environmentally sustainable and financially feasible properties. Emphasis is placed on site evaluation, financial feasibility, and investment analysis.

Professional practice under approved arrangement with public or private land or real estate development agencies in the United States or abroad.

Creation of an online portfolio demonstrating the knowledge and competencies obtained in the Master of Land and Property Development coursework. Undertaken as the terminal requirement for the Master of Land and Property Development degree.

Selected residential and income property development projects and case studies are analyzed with respect to the following due diligence determinations: financial feasibility; legal, social and entitlement feasibility; physical feasibility including site analysis; and product design.

Plans and venture structures for selected residential and non-residential development projects of varying size analyzed by student multidisciplinary teams with respect to the following; economic feasibility and cash flow and site and design plans and costs.

In-depth analysis of the four stages of entrepreneurial enterprise in the areas of land and property development including: the process of opportunity identification, building a business model, leveraging resources and relationships and developing an exit strategy; analysis of the four main specialization areas within the development process model including: planning, building, managing and operating properties from both the investor’s and tenant’s perspectives.

Provides foundational understanding of economic and financial analytical techniques used to evaluate income-producing real estate. Students learn the mathematics of present value analysis, then they apply the techniques to estimate market values and investment values to evaluate the financial feasibility of real estate projects.