Professional Development

Understanding the Real Estate Market in Chicago
Identify and Profit from Inevitable Real Estate Cycles

Overview
Understanding Real Estate Markets in Chicago examines the various markets within the city, appraisals and market analysis, financial concepts and residential and commercial development.

Who Should Register for Real Estate Markets?
This course is beneficial to appraisers, business analysts, entrepreneurs, project managers, real estate agents and brokers and professionals from many other fields.

Objectives
This course begins with an economic framework for understanding real estate markets in an urban area then examines the office, industrial, commercial and residential markets in the Chicago metropolitan area. Numerous sources of data, much of them on the Web, are examined.
Topics include:

* Downtown housing booms
* Booms, bust and boom in office markets
* Edge cities
* Predicting demand for real estate
* Evaluating the impact of the sub-prime lending credit crunch

Continuing Education Credit Information
An optional exam is offered at the end of Understanding the Real Estate Market in Chicago. Participants with an Illinois real estate broker or salesperson license can earn 6 hours of continuing education elective credit towards the renewal of his/her license. Participants must earn at least a 70% or higher on the exam to earn continuing education elective credits. Passing scores are reported directly to the Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation.

Registration Fee*
$500 / $400 for University of Illinois alumni, employees or students
*Subject to change

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Section 1 (1009)
  Wednesdays, 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
October 21 - November 11, 2009
  Course Fee: $500
  Registration Deadline: Tuesday, October 20, 2009
  Instructor(s): Tom Bothen
  Location: University of Illinois at Chicago
1333 South Halsted
Chicago, Illinois 60607
Room: 221
 
 

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