Profitability and return on investment in real estate management
Making investment decisions with confidence
Contents
Interface to real estate portfolio management
- Alternative courses of action for existing properties: purchase, new construction, sale or portfolio management, modernization, revitalization and refurbishment.
- Investment process and investment styles; diversification and risk spreading; derivation of suitable strategies and development of competitive advantages.
- Real estate value chain.
Real estate life cycle management
- Economic efficiency in the individual life cycle phases: Planning, financing, construction, use, maintenance, restructuring, sale.
- Adjustment of the real estate portfolio to changes in location.
- Measuring and maintaining the profitability of a portfolio with suitable key figures.
Investment calculation for real estate
- Among other things, refreshing the necessary math skills, cash flow modeling as a starting point for profitability assessment, determining a risk-adjusted interest rate, qualitative decision criteria.
Profitability/profitability calculation
- Including determination of the "cap rate" (net initial yield) of a building to assess the appropriateness of purchase price claims.
- Use of "Total Return" for ongoing performance measurement.
Dynamic methods of investment calculation in the life cycle
- With a focus on the net present value method, overview of alternative methods (e.g. internal rate of return method and complete financial plans) for assessing the profitability of different alternative courses of action.
Consideration of risk and uncertainty
- To assess the risks of your investment project: critical values and scenarios.
Learning environment
In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.
Your benefit
- You will be able to make sound professional judgments about whether and when a particular investment or divestment project is worthwhile in the life cycle of the property and where its opportunities and risks lie.
- You contribute to ongoing portfolio optimization and improve the earning power of your properties.
- You will be able to carry out investment, profitability and return on investment calculations and learn to select a suitable method depending on the requirements of the property. You will gain methodological confidence.
- You deal professionally with opportunities and risks.
- You can use suitable calculation methods for controlling purposes and portfolio optimization.
Methods
trainer, case studies, individual/group work, discussion, exchange of experiences.
Recommended for
Specialists/executives from the housing/real estate industry, employees from insurance companies/banks, facility managers, asset, portfolio and investment managers, employees of private equity firms, transaction managers who prepare investment decisions or have to decide on investments and divestments. Previous knowledge of basic financial mathematics (discounting of payments and payment series) is an advantage.
Further recommendations for "Profitability and return on investment in real estate management"
7570
Start dates and details
Monday, 20.04.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 21.04.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 11.06.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 12.06.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 20.10.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, 21.10.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, 11.11.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 12.11.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Wednesday, 24.02.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 25.02.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
FAQs: Frequently asked questions about training and returns in real estate management
You will learn the common methods for assessing economic efficiency, profitability, and investment calculations, including dynamic methods such as net present value and internal rate of return, as well as specific key figures such as cap rate and total return. This will enable you to make informed decisions on investment or divestment projects, evaluate opportunities and risks, and find economically stable solutions in real estate management.
The key figures training in training will help you evaluate individual properties within a portfolio and analyze alternative courses of action such as purchase, new construction, modernization, or sale. You can use these values to improve profitability and justify investment decisions in a comprehensible manner.
Because real estate is used over many years or decades, cost and income structures change over time. The training you how to make economically sound decisions at every stage of the life cycle, from planning and use to revitalization or sale, enabling you to better assess risks.
You will gain a clear overview of common risk and uncertainty factors, learn how to analyze scenarios, and identify critical decision-making parameters. This will enable you to better quantify risks and manage them in a well-founded manner, rather than just making gut decisions.
The training a refresher on the necessary mathematical basics, such as discounting and cash flow modeling, and supports you step by step in building your methodological confidence so that you can apply the calculation methods with confidence.
In future, you will be able to analyze challenging investment or profitability issues independently and explain them in a comprehensible manner. This will strengthen your role as a decision-maker and increase the confidence your colleagues and superiors have in you, especially when it comes to capital commitment or portfolio optimization.
After the training , you training able to use key figures such as cap rate or total return to evaluate purchase or sale prices and compare different investment alternatives mathematically.
Experienced professionals also benefit because the training teaches training methods of economic analysis, practical case studies, and life cycle perspectives that can be used to further professionalize established thinking and decision-making processes.
Immediately after the training , you training perform investment calculations, compare scenarios, and support decisions with clear economic arguments, e.g., in meetings with asset or portfolio teams or in consultation withowners.
By learning to realistically assess economic potential and make sound return forecasts, you will help shape the strategic direction of your real estate portfolio and contribute to the long-term competitiveness and profitability of the company.
