Real Estate Feasibility and Due Diligence Training Course

Participants can form market assumptions using demand, supply and transaction evidence.

• Catchment definition using drive-time, demographic, and competing-supply evidence
• Demand analysis distinguishing gross demand, effective demand, and absorption
• Comparable evidence screened for date, quality, incentives, and relevance
• Market segmentation by tenant, buyer, unit type, and price point
• Absorption schedules derived from pipeline supply and transaction velocity
• Rental and sales forecasts reconciled with comparable and macroeconomic evidence

Participants can identify legal, planning and site-control issues affecting project viability.

• Title review identifies ownership, easements, covenants, charges, and restrictions
• Land registry records matched against survey boundaries and possession
• Planning status tested against zoning, density, height, and use controls
• Environmental screening covers contamination, flood, heritage, and protected habitats
• Utilities due diligence assesses capacity, connection costs, and delivery lead times
• Access, rights-of-way, and off-site infrastructure obligations quantified

Participants can assess technical findings and their effect on design, cost and programme.

• Survey scopes distinguish desktop findings from intrusive investigation requirements
• Condition surveys assess structural defects, MEP systems, and lifecycle exposure
• Concept design tested against net-to-gross efficiency and accommodation schedules
• Quantity surveyor cost plan structured through elemental cost categories
• Construction programme identifies critical path, procurement route, and contingencies
• Climate resilience assessed for heat, flood, water, and energy risks

Participants can develop realistic cost and programme assumptions for property appraisals.

• Development budget separates land, hard costs, soft costs, finance, and contingencies
• Residual land value calculated from gross development value and target profit
• Cost estimates benchmarked by unit, area, and functional component
• Procurement routes compared for price certainty, speed, and design control
• Inflation allowances and escalation indices incorporated into phased cost forecasts
• Milestone schedule links permits, construction, sales, leasing, and cash requirements

Participants can interpret the financial outputs used to approve real estate investments.

• Unlevered discounted cash flow model built from development and operating assumptions
• Net operating income derived from rental income, vacancy, and operating expenses
• IRR, NPV, equity multiple, and yield metrics interpreted correctly
• Debt sizing tests loan-to-cost, loan-to-value, DSCR, and interest coverage
• Waterfall cash flows allocate distributions between equity partners and sponsors
• Exit value estimated using terminal yield, stabilised income, and selling costs

Participants can quantify downside exposure and assign practical risk responses.

• Base case assumptions documented with source, owner, date, and confidence rating
• One-way sensitivity tables test rents, costs, yields, timing, and interest rates
• Two-way scenarios expose combined downside from delayed delivery and weaker pricing
• Break-even analysis identifies minimum sales price, occupancy, and absorption requirements
• Monte Carlo simulation concepts distinguish probability ranges from arbitrary contingencies
• Risk register assigns likelihood, impact, mitigation, owner, and review date

Participants can manage diligence evidence, material findings and transaction conditions.

• Due diligence workplan assigns streams, evidence requests, owners, and deadlines
• Data room index controls document versions, access permissions, and audit trail
• Materiality thresholds distinguish decision-critical findings from routine observations
• Red flag reports state issue, consequence, recommendation, and unresolved evidence
• ISO 31000 risk treatment options inform acceptance, transfer, mitigation, or avoidance
• Conditions precedent and closing deliverables tracked through transaction checklists

Participants can assess valuation evidence and reconcile it with investment underwriting.

• Income approach values stabilised assets using market rent and capitalisation rates
• Sales comparison adjustments address location, tenure, condition, size, and timing
• Cost approach applies replacement cost, depreciation, and external obsolescence
• RICS Red Book principles distinguish valuation advice from feasibility conclusions
• Independent valuation assumptions challenged against underwriting and market evidence
• Acquisition price reconciled with residual value, comparables, and investment hurdles

Participants can prepare decision-ready findings, conditions and follow-up actions.

• Investment committee papers connect findings, valuation, risks, and recommended conditions
• Executive summaries distinguish facts, assumptions, uncertainties, and management actions
• Go, revise, defer, or reject decisions tied to explicit thresholds
• Negotiation priorities derived from diligence findings, valuation gaps, and risk allocation
• Post-acquisition action plan assigns remediation, permits, financing, and monitoring
• Stakeholder communications tailor evidence for lenders, boards, partners, and regulators