FIN 484 - Sustainable Real Estate Development

Units: 3
Analysis of sustainability applying to real estate development including resources and costs of rehabilitation and construction of green building technology. Topics include building sustainable infrastructure, financial impacts, developer’s costs, and returns on “green” projects.

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:

Identify communities within cities/places that can benefit from sustainable real estate development.
Identify Census demographic data to best address development revitalization specific to a city’s characteristics.
Describe the correlations between a city’s industry and its sustainable real estate development decision-making.
Identify time value of money (TVM), IRR and NPV concepts which apply to real estate development.
Discuss land use mistakes and development opportunities.
Construct a sensitivity analysis table based upon a sustainable real estate development project by following the LEED system (see http://www.usgbc.org/ ).
Apply MARR to NPV model for a sustainable real estate development project.
Evaluate and critique sustainable building concepts to write a sustainable real estate development case study with a solution.