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MIT SA+P: Real Estate Financial Analytics

Learn how to leverage quantitative analytical techniques and financial modeling to inform real estate investment decisions and risk.

Learn how to leverage quantitative analytical techniques and financial modeling to inform real estate investment decisions and risk.

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6 weeks
7–8 hours per week
Starts Apr 16, 2025
Enroll by Apr 22, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

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6 weeks
7–8 hours per week
Starts Apr 16, 2025
Enroll by Apr 22, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

About this Course

Changing tenant expectations, sustainability concerns, and where people choose to live due to work-from-home protocols are reshaping the commercial and residential real estate markets. It requires data and quantitative analysis skills to predict the full impact of this on the property sector, and investment and development decisions.

The Real Estate Financial Analytics online short course from the MIT School of Architecture and Planning (MIT SA+P) will enable you to transform uncertainty (‘unknown unknowns’) into risk (‘known unknowns’). You’ll gain the technical skills and tools to assess the viability of residential and commercial real estate investments using rigorous analysis techniques, simulation modeling, and financial modeling. This six-week program introduces real estate price dynamics and teaches you to quantitatively model them using Microsoft Excel, in order to understand some of the challenges of real estate price indexing. It also explores the lure and limitations of forecasting and how to make more accurate predictions using Monte Carlo simulation.

In addition, you’ll explore how flexibility in the context of uncertainty can add value to investments, as well as assess the quantitative and qualitative value of real estate investment decision flexibility using simulation modeling. With guidance from MIT academics and industry experts, you’ll discover the potential for new financial engineering tools based on real estate price indexing.

This program is designed to help equip finance and built environment professionals with the knowledge and techniques to navigate real estate investment decisions successfully. Whether for personal investment management or in a professional capacity, this course aims to provide you with the skills and tools to make better recommendations and projections, identify high-return investments, and build an enduringly strong portfolio.

Business leaders, financial executives, real estate entrepreneurs, developers, and fund managers and advisers will build on their current skill set, and gain insight into the latest investment trends and structures. Analysts — especially those looking to hone in-demand, specialist real estate expertise — will benefit from the expert thought leadership in areas such as property price dynamics and valuation in the capital market. Due to the technical nature of this course, it’s best suited to those with existing knowledge of finance or economic analysis and experience using Microsoft Excel.

Course curriculum

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Gain robust analytical skills and learn how to apply them in your property investment decision-making process as you work through the weekly modules of this online short course.

Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1: Real estate price dynamics

Module 2: Tracking real estate prices: Indexes and performance

Module 3: The forecast is ‘always’ wrong

Module 4: Simulation modeling for real estate investment

Module 5: Valuing flexibility in real estate

Module 6: The real estate financial analytics frontier: The case of index-based derivatives

About the certificate

Acquire the expertise to analyze the financial risks and identify opportunities within the real estate marketplace, and earn an official MIT SA+P certificate.

Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with a digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the course.

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you digitally upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements.

Some facts about the subject

Top 10

Business analysis and analytical reasoning are among the top 10 hard skills modern companies need most.

LinkedIn (Jan, 2020).

>50%

By 2022, more than half of major new business systems will incorporate continuous intelligence that uses real-time data to improve decisions.

Gartner (Feb, 2019).

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