We will explore how to take advantage of both expansions and recessions, how to prepare our projects for the next cycle, and how to anticipate and outmaneuver competitors. We will also learn how to assess, measure, and mitigate the risks when we enter a new market, either in our own country or abroad.

We will discuss externalities – factors unrelated to real estate that could affect our projects either in a negative or a positive way, including market transparency and corruption, governmental intervention, inflation, currency exchange risks, political and economic risks, interest rate fluctuations, and demographic changes. As real estate practitioners we need to understand this entire picture to design and implement the right project for a particular market.

In the second part of the program, we will address best practices for negotiating international deals, including different negotiation tactics and strategies, common mistakes, understanding your counterparty’s position and Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement (BATNA), and the unique challenges that cross-border negotiations pose. We will learn about the three layers of negotiation: rational, emotional, and identity. The participants will engage in several interactive negotiation exercises where they will be able to practice newly learned negotiation tools.

• Participants will learn how to protect investments – theirs and their clients – from risks while discussing: currency and inflation hedging; leverage; cross border portfolios; and the most efficient investment structures.
• Understand how to create and contribute to a successful real estate investment strategic plan in local as well as international markets.
• Learn the theory behind the real estate cycle in order to anticipate its behavior and make rational investment and design decisions.
• Understand the different external factors that can affect real estate investments around the world.
• Learn how to protect investments from risks while discussing inflation hedging techniques, currency hedging, leverage, cross-border portfolio, and the most efficient investment structures.
• Understand negotiation dynamics to prepare yourself, your organization, or on behalf of your client to understand parties’ respective interests, claim and create value, and resolve differences to close a deal.
• Create your own strategic plan to be ready when you are sitting down at the negotiation table.
• Understand how different cultural environments can shape the design and development process of our projects.

Developers, architects, lenders and all stakeholders on large-scale real estate projects seeking to better understand real estate strategy.

In an advanced international real estate program, you can expect to learn alongside and connect with a diverse group of global real estate professionals. Solve your biggest challenges together with a network of developers and real estate practitioners from all over the world.