For a complete list of course offerings in Property, Real Estate, and Trusts & Estates, including full descriptions and faculty who will be teaching the offerings in 2008-2009, refer to the online  Curriculum Guide. 

The foundational course in Property feeds into a number of other courses and areas of study in law.  Real estate law is covered most directly by Real Estate Finance and Real Estate Transactions.  Real Estate Finance studies the various ways in which money is raised for real estate projects and investments and provides a basic grounding in the techniques used in assessing the potential returns from particular real estate projects.  Real Estate Transactions follows the basic steps in the modern real estate transaction, including negotiating the contract of sale, obtaining financing, doing a title search, securing title insurance, drafting appropriate deeds and the closing.  Students interested in the study of real estate law should also consider Land Use Planning, Local Government Law and Environmental Law.

Property is also centrally involved in family wealth transactions, which are studied in the course Trusts, Estates and Estate Planning.  The course consideres both the family planning aspects involved in structuring the disposition of wealth to survivors and future generations through drafting appropriate wills and trusts as well as the tax planning dimensions.