Real Estate as an Asset for Investment
Real estate – whether commercial or residential – is an asset. The vast majority of the net wealth of the world’s citizens is in the form of property, principally housing. This household wealth underpins spending in the economy, promotes stability and contributes to the transfer of wealth from generation to generation. Private Equity Investors, Venture Capital Funds, Pension funds, insurance companies and professional investors hold major portfolios of real estate in developed countries, a phenomenon now also visible in the Indian property market. Companies use their real estate assets to raise capital to fund their business activities. The spectrum of property investment vehicles has increased dramatically in recent years as new products and vehicles have transformed the market and allowed many more individuals to invest in real estate. Real estate provides an alternative investment to equities and bonds; bringing property into a portfolio may reduce the risks faced by investors. Real estate investment is increasingly international in nature: just as firms operate on a global stage, so do property investors, constructing real estate portfolios that stretch across countries and continents.

Real Estate as a Career Choice
As a result of the heightened complexities in and the nascent stage of Indian Property Market, the study of real estate draws on many disciplines: Real Estate appraisal & valuation, project analysis and due diligence, economics; finance and investment, geography, business management, property laws, planning & zoning, marketing & leasing etc, applying insights from these subjects to help understand how property markets function. Real Estate Professionals with this mix of skills are vital if real estate markets are to operate efficiently and deliver the range of objectives required by real estate users, investors and developers. The IDS-NIREM postgraduate diploma programmes are designed to provide graduates with the necessary skills and knowledge to develop careers in the real estate industry in its many facets. The real estate industry offers a wide range of career paths. Our programmes aim to provide the maximum flexibility and choice for individual students while building a core set of skills and knowledge.

Our programmes cater for both students with no prior knowledge of the real estate industry and those who have already worked in property market – and wish to earn a degree in real estate in order to expand and accelerate their career prospects in the fast growing real estate sector. New entrants to the industry would be benefited by the broadest choice of subjects and width of knowledge that our programmes provide. Those who are already working in the sector will be benefited by the core courses such as Real Estate Development, Real Estate Valuation and Analysis, Appraisal of investment proposals, Analysis of risks & returns, Market and Feasibility Analysis, Marketing and Leasing of Properties among others that this course offers. Therefore, whether it is analysis of commercial and residential real estate markets for the purpose of tapping prospective property buyers or it is formulation of commercial real estate investment strategy to present before institutional investors, you gain expertise in all important aspects of real estate during our PG Diploma Programmes in real estate, which ultimately open up many options for employment in the real estate industry around the world.