Elective · Real Estate
Housing, Cities and Urban Economics
Urban growth, housing affordability, infrastructure, and city-level investment strategy informing Harborstone's Sun Belt allocation thesis.
REA 406: Housing, Cities and Urban Economics
Housing, Cities and Urban Economics covers six units with twenty-four lessons in the Real Estate concentration. Harborstone Properties ($2.4B AUM, Sun Belt mixed-use investor-developer) is the anchor company across all examples, quizzes, and exercises.
How to study this course
Work unit by unit. Each lesson includes worked examples with reconciled numbers, practice problems with solutions, and prompts connecting to your applied project and Fund IV-style IC memos.
Assessment
50% applied project, 30% case work, 20% knowledge checks
Applied work
- Concentration case analysis using Harborstone or your selected asset
- Applied project memo sections per unit
- Executive brief synthesizing course themes
Assessment
50% applied project, 30% case work, 20% knowledge checks
Each unit includes a case component aligned to this weight.
Each unit includes a case component aligned to this weight.
Each unit includes a exercise component aligned to this weight.
Open any unit below to complete exercises, project tasks, and the knowledge quiz. Units auto-complete when all assessment items are submitted and you score 80%+ on the quiz.
Concentration pathway
This course is part of the Real Estate concentration. Complete at least two electives in this pathway.
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