Program Overview

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Real Estate Management MSc

Overview

Develop your career in managing real estate portfolios, including natural and built environments, with our professionally-driven Master's in Real Estate Management. You'll learn to use industry-standard software, apply managerial skills and report your findings accurately, all in a university with one of the longest-standing Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) accreditations in the world.

You'll work with complex problems drawn from live real estate activity, produce reports to industry specifications throughout your assessments, and put your skills to work locally by taking part in community practice. Your teaching staff will include chartered surveyors, architects, civil engineers, economists, town planners, lawyers and environmentalists, with wide publication records and project management histories worth billions across the UK and Europe. You'll attend guest lectures given by RICS professionals from companies, such as Savilles, and from local government or other public sector organisations.

When you graduate, you'll have the knowledge and skills to build a career in real estate management. You'll also be eligible to begin the process of recognition as a Chartered Surveyor, or to enter research into the field.

Eligibility

This course accepts UK, EU, and International students.

Course Highlights

• Master real estate management skills, industry software and reporting methods, as you grapple with contemporary issues in the industry
• Build the necessary knowledge and experience to apply for Chartered Surveyor status
• Learn from practising real estate professionals, both as teaching staff and visiting lecturers, and use local case studies and community projects to develop your learning
• Study at one of the longest-established Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)-accredited centres in the world
• Plan and deliver a Master's project that follows your interest in real estate issues, such as investment, property development trends, corporate assets or planning
• Find your route into a property career from a wide range of academic backgrounds

Accreditation

RICS Accredited Course

Accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

Entry Requirements

Eligibility

This course accepts UK, EU, and International students.

September 2025 / January 2026 start

• A second-class honours degree or equivalent in any discipline. Business Studies, Social Sciences, Humanities and Liberal Arts, Geography, Economics or Law are examples, but any applicant with demonstrable commitment to, enthusiasm for or experience in the field with a good standard of literacy will also be considered.

Equivalent professional experience and/or qualifications will also be considered, such as previous study, employment, voluntary work and training courses, including courses and qualifications you didn't complete. Learn more about our Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).

Non-UK qualifications

If you're applying as an international student with a non-UK degree, you’ll need to show you meet the UK entry requirements listed above.

To find out if your non-UK degree or other qualification is accepted, please visit our page for your country and view the UK equivalent of your qualification.

English language requirements

• English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.0 (or equivalent) with no component score below 5.5.

You do not need an IELTS or equivalent certification if:

• you have a UK degree
• you have a degree from a majority English speaking country (not taught by Distance Learning)
• you are a national of a majority English speaking country

Degrees taught solely in English from non-majority English speaking countries will be considered on a case by case basis. Find out more about our English language requirements.

If you do not meet the English language requirements yet, you can achieve the level you need by successfully completing a pre-sessional English programme before you start your course.

Costs and Funding

Tuition fees

• UK, Channel Islands and Isle of Man students:
  • Full-time: £10,900 (may be subject to annual increase)
  • Part-time: £5,450 per year (may be subject to annual increase)
• EU students (including Transition Scholarship):
  • Full-time: £10,900 (may be subject to annual increase)
  • Part-time: £5,450 per year (may be subject to annual increase)
• International students:
  • Full-time: £19,200 (may be subject to annual increase)
  • Part-time: £9,600 per year (may be subject to annual increase)

University of Portsmouth graduates may receive a 20% alumni tuition fee discount.

Fees are subject to annual increase. Read our tuition fees terms and conditions.

You'll be able to pay your fees in instalments. Find out how to pay your tuition fees.

Modules

Full-time

• Dissertation - 60 credits
• Development Project - Inspection and Appraisal - 20 credits
• Construction Technology - 20 credits
• International Estate Management - 20 credits
• Investment, Wealth Management and Economics - 20 credits
• Real Estate and Planning Law and Practice - 20 credits
• Valuation and Appraisal - 20 credits

Part-time

Year 1

• Construction Technology - 20 credits
• International Estate Management - 20 credits
• Valuation and Appraisal - 20 credits

Year 2

• Dissertation - 60 credits
• Development Project - Inspection and Appraisal - 20 credits
• Investment, Wealth Management and Economics - 20 credits
• Real Estate and Planning Law and Practice - 20 credits

How You'll Spend Your Time

We recognise that you'll probably be juggling more demands when you do your Master's degree, as you may be working or you may have family responsibilities.

We'll give you as much indication here as we can of how much time you'll need to be on campus and how many hours you can expect to spend in self-directed study, but please note that these indications are always subject to change. You should receive your full timetable several weeks before you start with us.

Course structure

This Master's degree will take 12 months (full-time study) or 2 years (part-time study).

In the full-time course you can expect:

• 10 hours of teaching time every week. We do our best to keep all teaching within two days, leaving you the rest of the week for work experience or self-guided study. Currently full-time students attend teaching on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
• 20 hours of independent study each week

In the part-time course you can expect:

• 5 hours of teaching time every week. We do our best to keep all teaching within one day for part-time study, leaving you the rest of the week for work experience or self-guided study.
• 10 hours of independent study each week

In the last 3 months of the course you'll be focusing on your research project.

Career Development

Careers this Master's prepares you for

You'll graduate with the real estate management skills and knowledge to put your learning to work immediately. As a RICS-accredited professional, you are well-placed for senior roles in the industry – you'll know the software used in the industry, you'll have experience in producing industry-standard reports, and you'll have had the opportunity to build your professional contacts through site visits and university events.

And, according to the recent Digital Front Line report from Causeway Construction, you'll be entering a sector as it bounces back from lockdown with government investment and a commitment to its own digital reinvention.

Graduates of this course have gone onto roles such as:

• Property development
• Planning permissions
• Valuation
• Building methods
• Project management
• Consultancy

Graduates of this course have gone on to work for companies such as:

• AECOM
• Savills
• Gleeds

Supporting You

Master's study is more focused on independent learning than undergraduate study, but you'll get lots of support via video, phone and face-to-face from teaching and support staff to enhance your learning experience and help you succeed. You can build your personalised network of support from the following people and services:

Types of support

• Personal tutor
• Learning support tutors
• Laboratory support
• Academic skills support
• Wellbeing and mental health support
• Disability advice and additional support
• Library support
• Mathematics and stats support
• Support with English

Teaching Staff

These are some of the expert staff who'll teach you on this course:

• Mr Stephen Neale
• Dr Mark Danso-Amoako

Term Dates

September start

The Master's academic year runs from September to the following September. There are breaks at Christmas and Easter. Over the summer you'll be writing your project/dissertation.

See key dates

Joining us as an international student

You'll feel at home in our international community and our diverse city. You'll be joining over 5,000 international students from more than 150 countries who are studying with us.

Learn more about international student life and how we can help you with visas, applications, arrival and settling in.

Information for international students

Changes to Course Content

We use the best and most current research and professional practice alongside feedback from our students to make sure course content is relevant to your future career or further studies.

Therefore, some course content may change over time to reflect changes in the discipline or industry. If a module doesn't run, we'll let you know as soon as possible and help you choose an alternative module.