Best Real Estate Finance Course Online?

I am looking to get into real estate development but have a minimal knowledge in real estate finance. I am aware that in order to enter the field a satisfactory knowledge of real estate finance is necessary. What is the best course I can take online that will provide me the necessary real estate finance information to be successful in the real estate development field? And what finance concepts in particular are necessary for real estate development if I was to just do research on my own?

 

I tried Brueggeman & Fischer and it's nearly impossible to read, it's so verbose. I think Property Metrics is the best place to start, give Adventures in CRE a good effort, and just Google terms as they come to mind, i.e. NPV, IRR, Cash on Cash, Cap Rate, MOIC, EGR, refinancing, LIBOR/BTFR....

Approach learning in a bottom up fashion rather than trying to read a whole textbook.

 
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True. Brueggeman is extremely verbose.

Property Metrics & Adventures in CRE are both awesome. Also, having a decent mastery of financial modeling should be a part of your repertoire. A lot of good sources for that, but some that come to mind are: Adventures in CRE, GetREFM.com, and even some of the practice models that are thrown around in this forum.

 
gpaone97:
I am looking to get into real estate development but have a minimal knowledge in real estate finance. I am aware that in order to enter the field a satisfactory knowledge of real estate finance is necessary. What is the best course I can take online that will provide me the necessary real estate finance information to be successful in the real estate development field? And what finance concepts in particular are necessary for real estate development if I was to just do research on my own?

You may want to try the [Real Estate Finance and Investment Fundamentals ](https://www.extension.harvard.edu/academics/courses/real-estate-finance… from Harvard University Extension School. You can take it as a single course or as part of the four course Real Estate Investment certificate.

Here is a link to a download of the syllabus for the course.

 

What do you guys think would be the best program, certification or test to test my future knowledge in real estate finance so that I may put it on my resume in order to show potential job prospects I have a good knowledge of real estate finance?

 

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