The course uses the financial tools the students have used during their undergraduate studies so as to properly assess the potential alternatives of various financial tools for investments in real estate (mortgages, leasing etc), This course also offers fresh knowledge on how rents can be determined 9especially in commercial real estate), as well as it describes the available methods that evaluate the fair and correct price of a real estate unit. Finally, the course offers some special methodologies suitable for specific classes of real estate, such as distressed buildings. The above knowledge is expected to offer to students the necessary tools that will help them to form their professional career status in the real estate sector. 

After the successful completion of the course, students will be sufficiently capable of:

• Comprehending the financial methods through which real estate investments can receive the necessary funding (mortgage loans, leasing, factoring etc).
• Comprehending the tools and the methods that determine the appropriate price of a real estate unit (house, building etc,),
• Comprehending the efficient distribution of rents across tenants and owners, as well as the corresponding distribution of operational expenses across tenants.
• Comprehending how investors can increase their wealth through real estate portfolio mechanisms.
• Collaborating with their partners in class to efficiently describe real cases in the real estate sector in relevance to finance and investments decisions, so as they can advance their career in the relevant job market.