Corporate Real Estate Finance MCR Required Seminer

Corporate Real Estate Finance MCR Required Seminer

You already realize that financial risk is inherent in corporate real estate. Why not take this awareness further and increase your value as a corporate real estate (CRE) Professional by deepening your understanding of finance principles and their application to corporate real estate decision-making and management?

As one of the core, required seminars in the CoreNet Global Master of Corporate Real Estate (MCR) program, Corporate Real Estate Finance provides a comprehensive overview of financial analysis and management in a corporate real estate context.

The seminar starts with a review of fundamental corporate finance principals such as risk and return, cost of capital, net present value, and discount rate selection. Using case studies, these concepts are applied to the analysis of alternative lease structures, lease buyouts, and buy vs. lease decisions. The real estate investor’s perspective on these issues is also explored.

What You Will Learn:

• How to identify financial risk in corporate real estate portfolios and evaluate its impact on shareholder value
• A better understanding of the real estate investor’s viewpoint
• Risk management, including an overview of duration matching, a methodology used to manage risk
• All about lease types: operating, capital and synthetic leases
• Improve your ability to perform or oversee financial analysis for corporate real estate transactions
• Strengthen your ability to intelligently discuss financial issues with the finance group or CFO
• Increase capacity to develop business cases founded on sound corporate finance principles
• Identify financial risks within the corporate real estate portfolio and develop risk mitigation strategies
• Increase understanding of the financial management process, and application to corporate real estate