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Property Investment and Finance
(25 credits)
This course covers the following: mathematics of finance;
property investment decision-making; capital budgeting;
financing decision and capital structure; capital markets;
sources and flows of capital for property investments;
financial debt structures; equity capital markets (REITs);
debt capital markets (asset-backed securities, mortgagebacked securities, collateralised debt obligations); the
development of property investment portfolios by
applying the concepts underpinned by the Capital Asset
Pricing Model (CAPM).
Property and Facilities Management
(25 credits)
This course covers the essential principles and objectives
of property and facilities management and the role of the
property/facilities manager within the property sector
in leveraging maximum value from property assets.
The course focuses on the principles and management
theories of strategic property and facilities management
in the integration of “space, place, people, process and
technology.
Research Methodology
(20 credits)
This course covers the following: ontology and
epistemology (positivism, critical realism, constructivism,
pragmatism); theory in knowledge production; research
approaches (deductive, inductive, retroductive,
abductive); research strategies (experiment, survey, case
study, action research, grounded theory, ethnography,
archival research); research choices (quantitative,
qualitative, mixed methods); research design; data
collection, analysis and reporting; and ethics issues.
