We will explore how to predict and capitalize on both expansions and recessions, how to prepare our projects for the next cycle, and how to anticipate and outmaneuver our competitors. We will also learn how to assess, measure, and mitigate risks when entering a new market, whether in our own country or abroad.

We will discuss externalities – factors unrelated to real estate that could affect our projects either positively or negatively, 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 various negotiation tactics and strategies, common mistakes, understanding your counterparty’s position, and the Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement (BATNA), as well as the unique challenges that cross-border negotiations present. 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 practice newly learned negotiation tools.

• Participants will learn how to protect investments – their own and those of 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 to anticipate its behavior and make rational investment and design decisions.
• Understand the various external factors that can impact real estate investments globally.
• 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, investors, lenders, and all stakeholders in large-scale real estate projects who seek to understand real estate strategy better.

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 most significant challenges together with a network of developers and real estate practitioners from all over the world.