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QB5039: ADVANCED VALUATION AND DEVELOPMENT (2024-2025)

Last modified: 23 Jul 2024 11:01


Course Overview

This course applies the principles of valuation to more complex real world examples. Topics covered include rent reviews, compulsory purchase, property investment and property development. Students are encouraged to critique traditional approaches to valuation and to consider contemporary alternatives. Numeracy and analytical skills are further developed along with expertise in the use of Excel.  In addition, the course also covers professional surveying practice, including ethics, and stimulates discussion on contemporary issues and debates in the real estate industry.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term First Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Offshore Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Professor Norman E. Hutchison

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

Computer spreadsheets and valuation; DCF appraisal model and calculations of worth/investment value; premiums and surrender and renewal of leases; valuation of over-rented property; valuation of development properties; valuation of licensed premises; valuation standards; rateable occupation and the unit of valuation; comparative method of valuation; contractor's basis of valuation; receipts and expenditure method; the revaluation cycle/alteration of the Roll; appeal system; international comparison.


Contact Teaching Time

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Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

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Individual report or group work depending on topic/market conditions

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Resit Assessments

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