Courses in Property Development
Venue: Miller Workspaces, 50 Miller Street, NORTH SYDNEY, NSW 2060
The key objective of our Property Development Course outline is straightforward — equipping you with the knowledge, skills, and tools to supercharge your property potential.
Presented by leading industry experts, our in-depth seminars guide you diligently through maximising profit and mitigating risk — allowing you to succeed in residential, commercial, mixed-use, and industrial development projects.
After the course, you will be able to:
- Source and evaluate potentially lucrative development opportunities.
- Structure, strategise, and manage profitable projects from concept to completion.
- Mitigate your risks.
- Maximise your return on investment.
- Understand vital development concepts, terms, and regulations
Running just twice a year, highly in demand, and with limited places on our in-person (six attendees) and online (four participants) courses — it’s important to guarantee your spot early!
Please Note: The series course outline, lecture course, and industry speaker presentations may change without prior notice. This may vary according to availability and the lecturer’s discretion.
Empowering Your Property Development Potential
Our Property and Development Courses — whether attended in-person or virtually — empower you to achieve your property investment goals.
Meticulously and thoughtfully structured, the seminars gradually build and refine your knowledge of the risks, concepts, and opportunities in real estate development — with proven property professionals explaining how to avoid, mitigate, or exploit these factors.
During the property development training, you gain crucial knowledge of:
- Market trends — property market movement and demand.
- Acquisition strategies — discovering and purchasing potential development sites.
- Market research — pre-purchase viability exploration and site due diligence.
- Appointments — sourcing experienced professional consultants.
- Project design — mastering the development and design approvals system.
- Finance — raising equity, loan structuring, securing debt, and understanding leverage.
- Building and development — construction and trade procurement options.
- Branding — managing, marketing, and optimising your sales and/or leasing process.
Our Property and Development Courses Syllabus
- Introduction to course and objectives.
- Graduate attributes.
- Recommended reading.
- Resources.
- Overview of pertinent economic factors and indicators.
- Overview of the Australian property sector.
- Passive investment and development.
- Review of current development opportunities in:
- Residential property market and trends.
- Industrial property sector and trends.
- Office property sector and trends.
- Retail property sector and trends.
- Mixed-use sector and trends including childcare centres, health, gym and fitness, medical and vet centres, and the aged care sector.
- Case studies supporting various vital processes.
It includes an analysis of the current opportunities within various market cycles and trends — while providing an overview of key property development components, processes and milestones — as well as identification of location and growth areas.
Acquisition Process (Part 1)
- Greenfields, brownfields and income–processing assets.
- Development site identification.
- Appointment and management of professional consultants.
- Site assembly.
- Initial short-list process.
- Initial market due diligence.
- Highest and best-use analysis.
- Case studies.
- Course project briefing (optional assignment).
Explores land contamination and HAZMAT (hazardous materials), with an industry expert reviewing current issues illustrated by various case studies.
Acquisition Process (Part 2)
- Contaminated land and current legislation.
- Initial technical due diligence.
- Appointment and management of professional consultants.
- Acquisition strategies.
- Negotiation and competitive tension.
- Option structures.
- Acquisition case studies.
- Course project review (optional).
An industry talk by the managing director and an experienced property expert from a boutique, independent valuation firm — exploring valuing property development sites and projects.
- Value and price concepts — assessing value and potential value.
- Property market analysis and pertinent factors.
- Industrial site acquisition and value case studies.
- Property transfer process.
- Planning overview and pertinent issues:
- State Environmental Planning Policies (SEPPs).
- Local Environmental Plans (LEPs).
- Development Control Plans (DCPs).
- White papers and draft plans.
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- Engagement with stakeholders:
- Various scenarios.
- Process to follow.
- Engagement with stakeholders:
- Industry presentation by debt and equity advisor pertinent to development projects:
- Debt funding process
- Raising equity funding
- Lender requirements
- Property location identification and market due diligence:
- Population trends and forecasts
- Current and forecast supporting infrastructure
- Technical due diligence process and expert consultant requirements
- Appointing and managing professional consultant
- Concept design and design development
- Council engagement
- Authorities engagement
- Project management process
- Case studies
- Preliminary feasibility studies.
- Course workshop — viability cash flow calculations based on project examples.
- Commercial projects case studies.
- Raising equity funding.
- Debt funding process and lenders requirements.
- Cost estimates and cost plans.
- Early contractor involvement process.
- Methods of delivery building contracts.
- Holding and operating costs.
- Development applications and submission process.
- Joint Regional Planning Panel.
- Council RFIs.
- Section 4.55 (S.96) approval processes.
- Construction certificate approval process.
- Managing risk within the development process.
- Project management process.
- Case studies.
Note: The series course outline, lecture course content and industry speaker presentations may change without notice and vary according to the industry guest speakers and course lecturer’s availability and programme.
Structures and agreements are crucial to successful development entities. This session includes a presentation by a highly experienced commercial lawyer with expertise in development funding.
- Legal contracts and agreements.
- Incorporation.
- Various trust and unit trust structures.
- Shareholders agreements.
- Finance for development due diligence.
- Funding agreements and pitfalls.
- Case studies.
- Early contractor involvement process.
- Tender process and documentation.
- Project commissioning process.
- Strata subdivision process and documentation.
- Project branding process:
- Consultants and resources.
- Marketing tools and techniques.
- Soft marketing and EOI processes.
- Pre-sales and pre-lease.
- Appointing and managing sales and leasing agents.
- Selling and leasing directly to the market.
- Moderating product supply.
- Case studies.
- Review of project and course assignment due (optional).
Build the Skills To Become a Successful Developer — Enrol Today!
Forget outdated theories and unproven concepts — our Property Development Course is a powerfully interactive programme designed to propel you confidently into real estate success.
Taught by industry veterans — not lifelong academics who have never completed a deal — you enjoy and benefit from the knowledge and insight of top-tier professionals.
Equipped with practical skills, expert knowledge, and property astuteness — you’ll be ready to thrive in the thrilling world of property development.
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