This module introduces Real Estate Students to both professional and Business Ethics ie Dos and Don'ts of Real Estate Professionals in the day to day professional and Business Dealings
After successfully completion of this course, you should understand the following:
The Course tries to describe and analyze the current land policies in Rwanda as pertaining to Real Estate. In doing so, it first establishes the general principles of land ownership and use. second, it dives into Rwandan Land policy as recently revised and Finally analyze particular provisions as pertaining to real estate.
This module introduces students to the fundamentals of real estate marketing and focuses on the concepts, principles, and practices in marketing and leasing of various types of real estate properties. It also aims to provide the student with a comprehensive introduction to key issues in and approaches to the analysis of regional commercial real estate markets and in particular to examine the functioning and principal characteristics of East Africa’s major commercial real estate sectors and markets.
Indicative Content
· Concept of rural resource development and the need for regional policy, the physical basis of rural development:
· Agro-climatology, and water resources, soils, and vegetation, rural population dynamics – sources of basic demographic data: population composition, components of population changes, settlement types, and functions. It Focuses on the social structure and organization of rural communities,
· Optimization of rural land use and sustainable development: Von Thunen Theory, Linear programming, etc.
· Rural-urban contrast/imbalance, migration, especially rural urban migration and its implication in rural development.
· Differences in socio-economic amenities in rural and urban areas and the systems approach to understanding rural problems and development.
· An overview of rural development efforts in Rwanda, the role of government, quasi-government, non-governmental institutions in rural development, strategies and various approaches and constraints to rural development in Rwanda, integrated rural development and the role of culture in rural development.
· Role of science and technology in the rural real estate environment.
- Rural Economy - poverty, Rural land titling, and collateralization, Rural remittances
- The encroachment of urban uses into rural areas eg peri-urban land problems and the issue of small towns
- Rural Real Estate problems