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- Effective Term:
- Summer 2014 through Summer 2016
- Course Number:
- RE 250
- Course Title:
- Real Estate Investments I
- Credit Hours:
- 3
- Lecture Hours:
- 30
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Addendum to Course Description
Introduction to various aspects of personal real estate investments. Discussion of the basic strategies of real estate investment, including the relationship between risk and return. Introduces important considerations for potential investors when purchasing, holding and selling investment property.
Intended Outcomes for the course
- Apply the basic strategies of investing to real estate
- Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship of risk and return and leverage
- Apply and demonstrate a real estate investment analysis, including the impact of income taxes
Outcome Assessment Strategies
Students will be assessed by any combination of the following:
- Active participation in class
- Contextual written tasks (in or outside of class) to assess reading
- Homework assignments
- Oral responses to in class hypothetical
- Request for real life applications of course material
- In class, interactive student role-plays
- Exams and quizzes
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
Include all or most of the following:
1. Investment strategies
2. Investment terminology and concepts
3. Real estate cycles
4. Inflation/deflation
5. Leverage
6. Real estate markets
7. Earnest money agreements (purchase and sale agreements)
8. Investment analysis
9. Financing
10. Income tax (including tax-deferred exchanges)
11. Investment math
The primary purpose of the Course Content and Outcome Guide is to provide