CUREM, Center for Urban & Real Estate Management ñ Zurich offers the only RICS-accredited real estate programme in Switzerland ñ the Master of Science in Real Estate (MSc Real Estate). Our Scientific Director is Prof. Dr. Karl-Werner Schulte (IREBS: International Real Estate Business School...

In the real estate development process are several key actors involved who have different conceptions of how and which kind of value within real estate projects is to be obtained. Architects focus on the aesthetic quality of buildings and define value as contribution to the cultural uniqueness...

The increasing diffusion of the 4-quadrant approach (private equity, public equity, private debt, public debt) in the real estate investment opens up new questions to the theory and practise of asset allocation. Within the common top-down approach of asset allocation the question whether quoted...

Unlike the usual ímarket valueî, the íBest-Owner principleî proposes to tie the value of a direct real estate investment ñ seen as a business unit ñ to its owner. In this model the decision whether to add an asset to a portfolio depends on the ownerís ability to extract additional value...