Real Estate Finance: Incentivizing Capital to Create Better Outcomes in the Built Environment

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:
Understanding incentives and capital structures: Is it all about the bottom line or is it more complicated?

When government policy falls short of achieving lasting outcomes: Why should they think more about opportunity than enforcement?

Capital is one of the largest hurdles facing MWOBE and emerging developers: What solutions might exist to empower them?

Sustainability vs. Affordability: Why are these initiatives at constant odds with one another?

Changing the conversation: How can we get developers to understand the VALUE of design?

PropTech & Big Data: Why do seemingly user-friendly apartment-hunting sites actually benefit the landlord at the expense of the tenant?

NOTE: Sessions will likely take place during the evenings of Monday, Wednesday and Friday of each week for two weeks (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.