Why can’t we achieve better outcomes from developers in the built environment?
Real Estate Finance lies at the crux of many issues facing the built environment today. It is both the problem and the solution. When improperly utilized, capital can act as the largest impediment toward progress. However, when financial incentives are properly structured, they can be one of the most powerful and rapid agents of change. Many of the negative outcomes we observe in the built environment are the result of a lack of understanding of finance. By understanding the lexicon of finance, students will be armed with a new toolkit to better address the challenges of tomorrow.
In this workshop, students will learn the basic components of finance through Microsoft Excel. The program will start as a series of workshops where they act as developer and have to problem-solve by analyzing a project and understanding the use of financial incentives. Armed with these skills, students will form small groups and select one of the questions (below) as a topic for their final proposal.
Issues in Real Estate:
NOTE: Sessions will likely take place during the evenings of Monday, Wednesday and Friday of each week (likely 5-8pm or 6-9pm, once space is confirmed). You do not have to intern to be accepted to this workshop but the schedule is set to support those students who do intern. The Developer Conversations (i.e. meetings with industry participants) will likely occur during one day, in which case students would be required to take that day off. Please see ATTACHED PDF for the preliminary schedule. Updates to this PDF will be made as speakers and times are confirmed.
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