Explore Study and Career Options in Real Estate!
Enhance your college portfolio and learn how real estate really works at Fordham's Real Estate Institute at Lincoln Center NYC.
Choose one, or all three courses this summer!

Non-credit

Online, live

Accepts International Students

This summer, get a behind-the-scenes look at the many facets of the New York City real estate industry and learn what it takes to succeed in this fast-paced, high-income field. The Fordham Real Estate Institute offers high school students the opportunity to learn how real estate—the built environment in which we all live, work, and play—is designed, constructed, and developed.
Through a mix of live lectures, hands-on exercises, and examinations of prominent New York City properties, students gain a unique perspective into the numerous college study and career options that the field of real estate offers. All courses are taught by experienced industry professionals from Fordham's Real Estate Institute.

Summer 2023 Courses:
Real Estate Development in NYC: Principles and Process
Gain an understanding of the phases, procedures, and complexities of developing and redeveloping various property types including multifamily, office, and mixed-use real estate. Topics covered include an overview of the real estate development process; assembling the team; project stakeholders; market analysis and site selection; environmental review; marketability and design considerations; and more. Students will receive a certificate of attendance.

Real Estate Development in NYC: Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Explore the personal skills, organizational challenges, and market factors that influence the success of an entrepreneurial business and learn to solve problems that matter for entrepreneurial ventures focused on the business of real estate. Discuss and analyze issues that real estate startups face and work towards delivering workable solutions. Coursework will entail working in teams to devise a business idea or cutting-edge real estate business opportunity and develop a business model with the goal of attracting angel investors. At the conclusion of the course, students will have enhanced insight and skills to undertake an entrepreneurial real estate business either now or at some future point in their careers. Students will receive a certificate of attendance.

Real Estate Development in NYC: A Real-World Challenge
Students in this interactive, hands-on course gain invaluable practical insight into the fundamental forces that influence the decision-making process for a proposed real estate development project. This course presents a real-world scenario where students working in teams analyze an actual real estate project and render a recommendation. Students learn how supply and demand, the availability of funding, regulatory matters, building codes, zoning, politics, and community needs impact the final decision to develop a particular property type. Students will receive a certificate of attendance.

Certificate in Real Estate Development in NYC.
This certificate is awarded to students who complete a minimum of two summer courses. Choose one, two or all three courses this summer.

Real Estate Development in NYC: Principles and Process

Jul 10 - Jul 13

0 week

Online

995 USD

Real Estate Development in NYC: Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Jul 17 - Jul 20

0 week

Online

995 USD

Real Estate Development in NYC: A Real-World Challenge

Jul 24 - Jul 27

0 week

Online

995 USD

Students are eligible for a 100% tuition refund if they withdraw from the course before the official start date. If the intensive has already started, the refund schedule is as follows: 50% refund if the student withdraws before the third scheduled session. No refund thereafter.