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Real Estate Investment Fundamentals

The commercial logic of property — yield, cash flow, financing and risk — for professionals who advise investors.

Taught byOmar NashedFaculty Lead — Investment & Valuation

About this course

An agent who cannot read an investment case is a tour guide. This course teaches the financial fundamentals of property investment from the perspective of the professional advising the investor: how yield is calculated and misrepresented, what a cash flow really looks like across a hold period, how leverage changes both return and risk, and how to tell an investor something they do not want to hear.

What you will be able to do

  • Calculate gross yield, net yield and cash-on-cash return correctly
  • Build a simple hold-period cash flow for a residential or commercial asset
  • Explain how leverage amplifies both return and downside
  • Identify the assumptions in an investment case that actually carry the risk
  • Advise an investor client with defensible numbers rather than optimism

Who this is for

  • 01Consultants advising investor buyers
  • 02Brokerage staff moving into commercial or income property
  • 03Professionals who need financial literacy to be taken seriously

Curriculum

6 modules · 24 lessons

  1. 01.01Income, appreciation and the two sources of return20 min
  2. 01.02Asset classes and their behaviour23 min
  3. 01.03Liquidity, transaction cost and holding period18 min
  4. 01.04Why property comparisons to other assets mislead17 min

Your instructor

Portrait of Omar Nashed

Omar Nashed

Faculty Lead — Investment & Valuation

Omar leads the investment and valuation faculty. He teaches the financial literacy that separates a property consultant from a property adviser.

  • Investment appraisal
  • Comparative valuation
  • Market and absorption analysis
  • Financial modelling for property
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