Bachelor of Land and Property Management

Summary

Nourish your interest in land and property and expand your career opportunities with one of the most comprehensive property business and management degrees in Australasia. Then take your pick from an expanding range of careers.

Demand for both urban and rural property is outstripping supply. That creates a stream of openings for graduates of Lincoln University’s admired Bachelor of Land and Property Management. Study then pick your niche in valuation, investment, management, sales or another specialisation. You can even do a semester overseas.

How you’ll grow

• By studying urban or rural property, then adding a specialisation major like accounting, investment, finance or environmental management.
• You’ll position yourself strongly in New Zealand’s largest industry by economic contribution, and the country’s fourth largest sector by employment.
• With Accreditation by the Property Institute of New Zealand, Valuers Registration Board, Institute of Valuers, Real Estate Agents Authority and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
• A huge range of career options paired with a 100% employment rate.
• Be taught by specialists in the field with international experience, and up-to-date insights into the industry.

Career opportunities

This degree opens doors in New Zealand and overseas for roles in Valuation, Property Management, Facilities and Asset Management, Property Development, Investment and Portfolio Analysis, Real Estate Sales and Brokerage, Rural Valuation, Agricultural Banking and Finance, Farm Consultancy and more.

Practical work

You'll need to complete practical work for both majors (urban and rural).

Urban Major

The Urban major requires you to complete 12 weeks practical work. This must include six consecutive weeks to be carried out with one employer.

Rural Major

The Rural major requires an additional 18 weeks practical work experience in Primary Production and Allied Industries.

Download the Practical Work Handbook (PDF 1800 KB) for this degree.

For more information, please practicalwork@lincoln.ac.nz or phone +64 3 423 0061.

The field trips were a chance to see how the property industry works first-hand. And some of the lecturers are also full-time valuers and real estate agents.

Henry Finnis

Bachelor of Land and Property Management

Graduate Attributes

Graduate Attributes refer to the knowledge, skills, and values that you gain from completing your qualification. These high-level qualities will prepare you for career success, further study or research and making a valuable contribution to society in your chosen field.

Knowledge

• A comprehensive and well-founded knowledge in Valuation and Property Management.
• An understanding of how other disciplines relate to Valuation and Property Management.
• An understanding of the different approaches to valuation, management and investment analysis, and asset management and their applicability in particular situations.
• Appreciate the impact of legislation, legal precedent and case law as it applies to property.
• Explain the forces acting to affect property market supply, demand, and pricing.
• Apply the tools, techniques and methods by which practitioners use to manage and / or evaluate property investment and development projects.

Skills

• Engage in independent and reflective learning about the study of valuation and property management and investment.
• Ability to find and use the most relevant information from a variety of reputable sources, and synthesise this information in order to reach sound conclusions and facilitate appropriate decisions.
• Rigorously analyse, critique and reflect on policy, institutions and practices influencing property valuation, investment, development, and related professional practice.
• Apply appropriate approaches, methods and tools to analyse, evaluate and solve problems related to valuation, investment and property management practice.
• Engage and communicate with peers from diverse professional backgrounds.

Values

• An understanding of the role, responsibilities and ethical and professional practice in relation to the management, valuation and investment analysis of property.
• Ability to act competently, strictly independently and with objectivity and impartiality in the performance of duties.
• Develop an ability to work in a timely manner in accordance with applicable legal requirements, technical and professional standards.
• Appreciate the cultural, economic, social and environmental complexity of issues.
• Establish a basis for independent, life-long learning.