Real Estate Development Course

This course provides a thorough exploration of the real estate development process, from initial conception to final execution. It encompasses the fundamentals of real estate markets, investment strategies, project management, and the critical legal, financial, and environmental considerations involved in real estate development.

At the end of the course participants will have better knowledge to:

• Learn how to calculate land and profit residuals.
• Learn how to structure a full development cash flow, including phased sales, S-curve and straight-line cost functions.
• Learn how to find maximum bidding prices for site development and building refurbishments.
• Understanding development financing considerations and learn how to optimise financing.
• Analyse financial and project completion risks
• Employ best practice and find solutions to common modelling problems.

Content

• Gross versus Net Yields, calculating Net Development Value (NDV)
• Profit residual, with and without financing.
• Site residual, how to calculate profit without knowing your costs.
• Introducing financing to site residual calculations
• Purchase price and acquisition costs.
• Phased Sales, marketing, and disposal costs.
• Modelling construction costs using straight line basis, fixed costs, variable costs, incidental costs, and construction fees.
• Professional fees
• Income and expenditure project functions
• Logic functions, logic tables and array formulae
• Multiple IRRs, competing projects, scoping and linear programming, maximising performance.
• Return metrics: Equity profit ratio (EPR), Costs paid out of proceeds (POP), Profit on cost ratio (PCR)
• Alternative site calculation, Net present value (NPV),
• Modelling construction costs using S-curve, variable costs, incidental costs, and construction fees.
• Switching between scenarios
• Introduction to Development financing, Pari Passu versus Equity First Financing
• Debt scheduling: brought forward and carried forward method.
• Consideration of the impact of development finance interest, fees, and covenants

Training Methodology

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.