FIN 486 - Real Estate Markets and Housing Policies

Units: 3
Study of real estate markets, regulations, housing policies, and related topics.

Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Explain housing research by following a step-by-step approach to identify a housing question/issue/motivation, provide a literature review, collect and discuss data (including descriptive statistics), discuss and use a specific methodology to analyze data, summarize results, and provide a conclusion which includes policy implication(s).
Apply and discuss the hedonic methodology to estimate the value of housing characteristics such as a bedroom as well as the overall value of house prices.
Critique advanced topics which pertain to real estate markets.