Sanket is such a chill guy. BTW this is Commercial Real Estate, so not flipping houses and shit. It gives you the basics for a RE interview or what you'd do in an CRE internship. The first half of the class is lecture heavy, just take good notes. Sometimes the slides uploaded aren't marked up, so you miss out on content if you don't go to lecture. The beginning is very econ heavy. Real estate is a simple subject - just understand the fundmentals of supply and demand.

The exams are in-person, no Excel, with a cheat sheet. They are more like cases. The homeworks need Excel. Make your excel sheet clean, I lost a bunch of points for messy Excels. SHOW YOUR WORK CLEARLY. Later on when you start the projects, get a good group. The excel stuff takes some time to figure out, but you NEED to know how to write clearly and for the final project how to make actually good slides. Start early and you will never drop points. Go to office hours and get clarification. The final is cumulative, but you have a cheat sheet so use that.

Talk to Sanket after class, he's a great guy, clearly very knowledgeable. The content builds on each other pretty cleanly. It's a mix of econ, finance, and qualitative factors. It gets more financey later on.

Sanket has now taught this course twice, and he has really proven himself to be an amazing professor. This year, he worked with an actual real estate private equity firm to develop a semester-long case study, which proved to be highly impactful. By the end of the course, we had developed financial models in Excel that mirror the ones actual real estate investment firms use. We covered pretty much every topic I would expect from an introductory real estate finance course, but did so through practical applications rather than just through theory. I cannot recommend this course and Sanket enough. He is one the most genuinely nice professors I have had. I hope McIntire can hold onto him for a long time!