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During 16 weeks students work in groups towards a long-term policy plan for a housing management organization. They take a role of a consultant who is asked to write this long term policy plan. The main question is: How should the housing portfolio develop in the coming years, taking into account the current situation, the regional housing market prospects, as well as the goals, strengths and weaknesses of the organization.

Each group receives a region and a key performance indicator for their virtual organization.
In the first week groups set up their housing management organization, including the portfolio, mission and vision. In the following weeks they work on different parts of the policy plan including:

• Analysis of the current situation: Strengths, Weaknesses of the portfolio and the organization, Opportunities and Threats, competitors and stakeholders.
• Identification of strategic issues and development of the long-term strategy.
• Financial planning: cash flows, valuation of the housing stock, borrowing capacity, net present value of the investments, financial risks.

The project combines insights from management, economics, finance, statistics, in application to housing real estate. It makes use of the active learning. Every week students get instructions in which main concepts, theories and techniques are explained, and receive individual and group assignments. Individual assignments train technical skills. In group assignments students apply the theories and concepts to their specific case. Students get weekly feedback on the assignments.

• Previous USRE (bachelor) projects
• (bachelor) Urban Projects & Finance

• No specific courses