PRINCIPLES OF REAL ESTATE FINANCE AND INVESTMENT CERTIFICATE

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Earn your certificate by completing three courses! Choose from four different courses to build a certificate that is right for you and your career goals.

  • Pro Forma I: Excel Modeling: Learn to create a basic multifamily pro forma from scratch.

  • Introduction to Market Analysis: Understand the market opportunity of a particular project.

  • Introduction to Real Estate Capital Markets: Understand capital sources and their pros and cons for developers, investors, property owners and other real estate professionals.

  • Introduction to Real Estate Finance and Investment: Become acquainted with fundamental real estate finance terms and concepts, and learn to perform important real-world calculations using Excel spreadsheets.

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Instructors

Charles Tu

Daniel F. Mulvihill Endowed Chair of Real Estate, University of San Diego - Knauss School of Business

A dedicated and passionate teacher, Dr. Tu has taught many courses at the graduate, undergraduate and professional levels. His expertise is in finance-related subjects, such as real estate finance and investment, asset management, capital markets, and financial modeling. Dr. Tu produced academic research in a wide range of topics, including housing valuation, smart growth and the new urbanism, sustainable and green buildings, commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), real estate investment trusts (REITs), multifamily housing, retail shopping centers, and real estate education. He has also published with ULI. Dr. Tu received his PhD from George Washington University and earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

Mary Lynne Boorn

Associate Professor, Real Estate, USC Price College of Public Policy

Mary Lynne Boorn is currently an Associate Professor at USC’s Price College of Public Policy in the Real Estate Department. She began her career in real estate finance and spent the bulk of her career in real estate development working as Vice President of Development for Madison Marquette directing development projects nationally, Vice President of the non-profit 3CDC overseeing the redevelopment of Cincinnati’s iconic Fountain Square and finally as a consultant to multiple national firms, before pursuing her Ph.D. and moving into a career in academia. Working with both the traditional and non-profit real estate sectors, Mary Lynne brings a diverse set of perspectives to practicing and teaching real estate. Mary Lynne holds her doctoral degree from University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Art, Architecture and Planning (DAAP) in the area of Regional Development. She has an M.B.A. from UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School of Management and an M.A. from UCLA’s Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning and earned her B.A. from Princeton University.