Leaders in Real Estate Education
The Maastricht Center for Real Estate translates more than thirty years of real estate research to undergraduate and professional education. In addition to education fostering core real estate finance and investment skills, the Center levers its scientific expertise to provide practical tools that enable you to integrate environmental, social and corporate governance issues in financial analysis and investments in the real estate asset class, while contributing to more sustainable businesses and financial markets.
Global Real Estate Leaders Program
The Maastricht Center for Real Estate, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Real Estate, has developed the Global Real Estate Leaders Program—a world-class educational initiative designed to cultivate the next generation of leaders in the real estate industry.
What does it take to be a leader in the real estate industry?
The Global Real Estate Leaders Program offers experienced executives—those with a minimum of ten years in real estate, asset management, finance, and/or the built environment—the opportunity to earn a professional education certificate. The program focuses on equipping participants with the essential skills and knowledge required to lead dynamic real estate organizations, both nationally and globally.
Delivered by leading academics and industry experts, the program provides in-depth insights into investment strategies, leadership, and management. It also addresses pressing industry challenges, including sustainability and climate risk, property technology, inflation, rising interest rates, talent shortages, and technological transformation.
Participants will develop critical leadership skills, such as negotiation, entrepreneurship, high-performing team design and management, diversity and inclusion, ethics, and cultural leadership and influence.
Who should attend?
This program is aimed at individuals with considerable real estate industry experience holding / pursuing executive positions, including:
- Real estate owners and private real estate developers
- Asset managers, fund managers working for pension funds, sovereign funds or
- Lending officers, investors, REIT officers, and fund managers and advisors
- Real estate industry service providers, such as financial analysts, lawyers, architects, urban planners, and brokers
What is the format?
The format consists of four one-week modules held throughout 2024 and 2025, with each session located either in Maastricht or Cambridge, Massachusetts. The program includes faculty presentations, debates, case studies, interactive exercises, small group discussions, panel discussions, guest lectures from leaders in the real estate industry, and a number of site visits to some of the most innovative and advanced buildings and ongoing development projects in Europe and North America.
When and where is it taking place?
- Spring Module: Maastricht and London – April 6-11, 2025
- Fall Module: MIT, Boston & New York City – October 19-24, 2025
Discount for ULI, NAREIT and PREA members
As part of the collaboration with ULI Europe, PREA and NAREIT, all members of these associations will receive a 20% discount on the cost of the Global Real Estate Leaders program.
When is the application deadline?
Applications are now open. Prospective participants can apply for individual modules or the full program. The application deadline is March 1, 2025.
Further information
For further information on fees, timelines, teaching team and course content visit Global Real Estate Leaders.
Contact details
For any questions, please feel free to contact program director, Juan Palacios at: [email protected]
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Real Estate Finance & Investments
Our Master course on Real Estate Finance & Investments is part of the MSc in Sustainable Finance. The MSc in Sustainable Finance is a globally unique Msc. International Business track, organized by the Finance Department of Maastricht University. Learn about sustainable finance from internationally acclaimed scholars affiliated with the world-renowned European Center for Corporate Engagement. It is a one-year, full-time program taught entirely in English at Maastricht University. Graduates receive a Master's degree in International Business from Maastricht University with a specialization in Sustainable Finance.
Financial institutions and companies today are increasing their focus on three key elements of sustainability: environment, society and governance (ESG). The need the special know-how of a new generation of finance professionals: professionals with a strong grounding in traditional finance, who can enhance financial decision making by taking sustainability into account. The Sustainable Finance specialization enables you to understand how sustainability affects mainstream finance topics such as corporate valuation, corporate governance, (institutional) investing, and real estate finance.