Bachelor's level
FF250A Real Estate Science: Real Estate Entrepreneurship (Fastighetsvetenskap: Fastighetsföretagande) 7,5 credits
F252A Management Control in Real Estate Organisations (Ekonomistyrning i fastighetsföretag) 7,5 credits
FF253E Real Estate Science: Service Management and Innovation 7,5 credits
FF256E Real Estate Science: Facility Management and Organisation 7,5 credits
FF260A Real Estate Science: Real Estate Management (Fastighetsvetenskap: Fastighetsförvaltning) 15 credits
FF261A Real Estate Science: Real Estate and Business Development (Fastighetsvetenskap: Fastighets- och affärsutveckling) 15 credits
Or corresponding
KSFAE Real Estate Science, KSFÖE Business Administration
G2F / First cycle, has at least 60 credits in first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
The course belongs to the main field of Real Estate Science at the level of 61- 90 credits and is mandatory for the Bachelor's degree in Real Estate Science - Specialization in Real Estate Management
The aim of the course is to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of strategic and change management principles and practices in real estate management organisations. It explores how the companies grow, innovate and change. It helps students to gain knowledge and competences to shape, implement and communicate strategies for sustainable real estate management in a fast-changing business environment.
Theme 1: Strategic positioning. This theme explains how to analyse the position of real estate organisations in relation to the macro and sectoral environment as well as the internal resources and capabilities.
Theme 2: Strategic choices. This theme introduces the potential strategic options for achieving the desired strategic position of different types of real estate organisations. It includes corporate and business strategies; entrepreneurship and innovation strategies; and sustainability strategies.
Theme 3: Strategy in action. This theme explains the process that give rise to strategies, actors involved in the strategy development, and methods to manage strategic work.
Theme 4: Change for sustainability. This theme focuses on strategic change in real estate organisations toward sustainability. It introduces methods for analysing the context, organising the process, and evaluating the impact of strategic change.
After completing the course, the student shall be able to:
Knowledge and understanding
1. account for concepts, models, theories and perspectives in strategic management and change management in both practice and research with a focus on sustainable real estate.
Competence and skills
2. analyse the external environment and internal resources and capabilities to identify strategic opportunities and challenges toward sustainable real estate.
3. develop strategies and implementation plans for real estate management organizations.
4. develop change management strategies and plans to facilitate successful organizational change in a technologically changing society.
Judgement and approach
5. examine and critically evaluate strategic alternatives for business development and sustainability-oriented change in real estate organizations by applying theoretical knowledge and scientific methods.
The course is carried out in the form of blended learning, which means that the student independently takes part in course material and activities both before, during and after scheduled activities and works with tasks both independently and in collaboration with others.
Individual examination (5 credits) (A-E, U) (Learning outcomes: 1, 2, 3, 4)
Group-based seminars including written and oral presentation/ reporting (2,5 credits) (UG) (Learning outcomes: 2, 3, 4, 5)
All learning outcomes are individually assessed
To pass the course in its entirety, a passing grade is required for each examination. The final grade (A-E) for the course is determined by the grade on the individual examination.
- Haynes, B.P., Nunnington, N. & Eccles, T. (latest edition) Corporate real estate asset management: strategy and implementation. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London.
- Whittington, R., Regnér, P., Angwin, D., Johnson, G., & Scholes, K. (latest edition). Exploring strategy. Pearson UK.
Supplementary scientific articles will be provided electronically.
Malmö University provides students who participate in, or who have completed a course, with the opportunity to express their opinions and describe their experiences of the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The University will compile and summarise the results of course evaluations. The University will also inform participants of the results and any decisions relating to measures taken in response to the course evaluations. The results will be made available to the students (HF 1:14).
If a course is no longer offered, or has undergone significant changes, the students must be offered two opportunities for re-examination based on the syllabus that applied at the time of registration, for a period of one year after the changes have been implemented.
If a student has a Learning support decision, the examiner has the right to provide the student with an adapted test, or to allow the student to take the exam in a different format. The syllabus is a translation of a Swedish source text.