Putting a defensible number on an asset or a project, and knowing which method the situation calls for. The concept layer under every feasibility, DPR and appraisal deliverable — what the numbers mean, before any spreadsheet.
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A board is reviewing a proposal to acquire and refurbish an income-producing property, and wants to know both what it is worth and whether the project is worth doing. Are those the same question?
No — one is a value for the asset, the other a return on the money spent, and they use different machinery. The value comes from an income approach: a discounted cash flow of net operating income, cross-checked against what a cap rate on that income implies and against comparable transactions adjusted for how they differ from this building. The return comes from the project's own cash flows netted against the outlay — NPV at a discount rate built from the actual cost of debt and equity, IRR read against the hurdle rate, and payback quoted only with the caveat that it ignores everything happening after it.
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Course outline
Concept 1
Concept 1 · What valuation is, and why two valuers differ
Concept 2
Discounting arithmetic worked step by step on rupee figures.
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Concept 3
After: time-value-of-money
The rate built up from risk-adjusted expected return and the split between debt and equity cost.
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Concept 4
After: discount-rate
A multi-year series discounted year by year, netted against the outlay, with the decision rule stated.
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Concept 5
After: npv
A calculated IRR set against a required hurdle rate, and the decision that follows from the gap.
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Concept 6
After: irr-and-hurdle
Cash flows added after the payback date — NPV and IRR move, payback does not.
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Concept 7
After: discount-rate
WACC computed across sources of capital, including the tax shield on debt.
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Concept 8
After: npv, cost-of-capital-wacc
Property cash flows discounted to a present value, with formulas and numbers on screen.
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Concept 9
After: dcf-valuation
The rent yield formula applied to typical Indian residential and commercial yields.
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Concept 10
After: what-valuation-is
Feature-level adjustments computed from comparable sales and applied one comp at a time.
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Concept 11
After: what-valuation-is
Land value plus improvements minus depreciation, each component defined in turn.
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Concept 12
After: npv
Private financial return contrasted against the costs and benefits that fall on society.
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Concept 13
After: dcf-valuation, cap-rate-and-yield, comparable-method, cost-method
Six methods and the specific conditions under which each one is the right choice.
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Working for developers, land/real-estate advisory firms (JLL, CBRE, Knight Frank, Anarock) and in-house development teams on feasibility, market research, land use, and project planning. A natural fit for a planning + real-estate lens. Specialisation tags: Urban, Housing, Infrastructure.
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Explore path →Real-estate-focused finance and investment research at REITs, PE/RE funds, and bank/NBFC real-estate desks — where a planner's land-use/feasibility lens is an asset alongside finance skills. Direct entry is realistic mainly with deliberate finance up-skilling, CFA/RICS/valuation exposure, or specialized real-estate education. Specialisation tags: Urban, Housing, Infrastructure.
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Explore path →Consultancy work preparing master plans, development plans, town-planning schemes, and area development for government clients and authorities — from boutique planning houses to large multidisciplinary consultancies (incl. L&T and the planning divisions of global engineering firms). The default private destination; campus-recruited. Specialisation tags: Urban, Regional, Urban Design.
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Explore path →Urban, transport, and infrastructure work at the multilateral banks — project preparation, technical assistance, and analytics, usually entered via consultant/STC contracts or (rarely, very competitively) the Young Professionals Program. Specialisation tags: Urban, Infrastructure, Transport.
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