Enhance your ability to analyze the financial risks and opportunities of today's real estate marketplace by leveraging quantitative analytics techniques taught in popular MIT graduate courses. Over the course of two accelerated days, you’ll master common real estate financial analysis methods, acquire new approaches for financial modeling, and assess cutting-edge quantitative tools for managing portfolio risk. 
Want to get ahead in real estate finance? Get back to the basics with MIT. In this critically important two-day course, you’ll join accomplished global peers to enhance your foundational knowledge of the crucial factors shaping real estate finance today. Through real-world case studies, you’ll explore the financial infrastructures that underpin real estate development and improve your ability to make smart decisions related to financial feasibility.
Property technology—or “proptech”—is revolutionizing the global real estate industry. In this high-impact one-day course, you’ll dive into today’s dynamic proptech ecosystem and explore the technologies—from machine learning to data analytics tools—that are transforming the way real estate professionals buy, rent, sell, manage, construct, and design properties.

Steve Weikal is a lecturer, researcher, and Industry Chair of the Center’s Real Estate Technology Hub, which explores innovative new technologies and business models that are reinventing traditional ways of developing, transacting and managing real estate. He is also the Managing Partner of MET Fund II, which invests in early-stage startups that have an MIT connection and focus on solutions for the coming built environment transformation. 

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James Robert Scott is a lecturer and research scientist of the Real Estate Technology Hub at MIT’s Center for Real Estate, with a primary focus on real estate automation and technology. He works with stakeholders across the Proptech sector to identify technologies that will make buildings more energy efficient, more competitive, and better for the end user. 

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Property technology—or “proptech”—is revolutionizing the global real estate industry. In this high-impact one-day course, you’ll dive into today’s dynamic proptech ecosystem and explore the technologies—from machine learning to data analytics tools—that are transforming the way real estate professionals buy, rent, sell, manage, construct, and design properties.
Recent global developments, coupled with economic conditions, have demonstrated that one cannot understand financial markets and the economy without understanding real estate markets and underwriting real estate risk. The Professional Certificate in Real Estate Finance & Development provides an unparalleled opportunity for professionals and executives to obtain state-of-the-art insights and skills about the key factors and investment strategies driving real estate markets. By joining our professional program, you will further your understanding of the real estate development process. Our real estate professional courses will provide real value to a global audience of executives and knowledge-thirsty professionals, and will provide training opportunities for large organizations seeking to educate and inspire their most talented employees.
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Zhengzhen Tan

Zhengzhen Tan is a Lecturer in MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning, Executive Director of the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab, and Director of the China Future City Program. Her research and teaching is focused on sustainable urban development, digital innovation, and entrepreneurship. She is the editor of “Towards Urban Vibrancy: Patterns and Practices of Asia’s New Cities” (MIT SA+P Press, 2020), and the author of the digital cities chapter in this book. Prior to joining MIT, she worked as an urban planner and urban designer with extensive practice in both the public and private sectors in Shanghai, Singapore, London, and Vancouver. 
 

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Professor Siqi Zheng is the STL Champion Professor of Urban and Real Estate Sustainability at MIT and Faculty Director of both the MIT Center for Real Estate and MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab. Her research focuses on urban and environmental economics, urban development, and real estate markets, with a special focus on China. She is widely published in both English and Chinese language journals and serves as Associated Editor of Journal of Economic Surveys, an editorial board member of Journal of Housing Economics and International Real Estate Review, and the Vice General Secretary of the Global Chinese Real Estate Congress. Prior to joining MIT, she was a professor and director of Hang Lung Center for Real Estate at Tsinghua University, China.

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