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Timetables

You should use the MyTimetable system to view your timetables. You can access the MyTimetable system later this summer. Important: To help you generate an accurate timetable please read this quick guide on how to use the system first.

MSc Real Estate Induction course content

There will be 14 hours of lecture sessions or online computer labs during the induction fortnight, all delivered by our real estate academics.

The induction sessions introduce you to the real estate market and the main subjects you will study. They aim to bring everyone up to a basic level on core skills in data analysis, financial maths, statistics and Excel spreadsheets, as well introduce you to fundamental concepts in valuation and investment performance which underpin the course.

You will have introductory sessions on:

You may not have done much maths or statistics or used Excel in your previous degree. Don’t worry, the majority of your fellow students won’t have either. But looking at some primers over the summer will help you get started – there are lots of “for Dummies” style books you could buy. n addition, there will be a tutorial and a recording on performing calculations on and visualising real estate data.

Excel guide:

Please refer to the guide to the main functions you will be using in Excel written by your lecturers and a sample spreadsheet for this.

Also, try Keynote Support and also see how far you can get with our spreadsheet above. Real estate is a multidisciplinary subject area. As such, there isn’t, unfortunately, a single book which introduces and covers all elements of real estate taught in this programme. Textbooks that will be used in the first semester provide a good start to the full reading you will be given in each module.

  • For Introduction to Real Estate and Real Estate Economics : J. Harvey and E. Jowsey, Urban Land Economics, 2004, 6th edition; chapters 2 – 9. Also, M. Ball, C. Lizieri and B. MacGregor, The Economics of Commercial Property Markets, 1998; chapters 1-9 (skip statistical discussion and complex diagrammatic analysis).
  • For Appraisals and Valuation: P.Wyatt, Property Valuation, 2013, 3rd edition.
  • For Quantitative and Data Analysis applied to real estate: S. Tsolacos and M. Andrew, Applied Quantitative Analysis for Real Estate, 2020, chapters 1-3.
  • For Real Estate Investments: Moss A., and Farrelly K., Global Real Estate Capital Markets : Theory and Practice 2025

It is important that you acquaint yourselves with the nature, definitions and terminology of real estate data as early as possible. Chapter 2 in Tsolacos and Andrew, Applied Quantitative Analysis for Real Estate, provides a primer on key real estate data, the concepts behind their construction and what they are designed to measure.

For the latest trends in real estate and other capital markets    it is recommended that you sign up for a free online account with The Property Chronicle (Link here https://www.propertychronicle.com/). These are very easily digestible articles across a wide range of topics will be helpful to you.

It is also recommended that you sign up to receive notification of events being held by the Real Estate Centre at Bayes.

The academic content in the programme is supplemented by an analysis of current industry trends. The following websites give you the background on industry trends, what people in the industry are looking at, news and analyses from a practitioner’s perspective.