Real Estate Management: Online Course with Internship Agreement
The Real Estate Management course teaches the junior work of international lettings and property management. It covers running a tenancy, building and checking a rent roll, chasing arrears, reconciling system data, handling international clients, licensing, AML/KYC, EPBD energy rules, valuation basics and property correspondence in English. It runs for 180 days, 100 % online, at your own pace. An internship agreement is included. Price: €200.
- 180 days of access
- 100 % online, at your own pace
- Level: beginner · No prior experience required
- Assessment: 10 quizzes (50 questions) and a final project
- Internship agreement included
- Certificate with a verifiable QR code
- Languages: Spanish, English, French
- Price: €200
Who it is for
- Newcomers aiming for a junior property administrator or lettings role
- People wanting to work in property management for international owners and investors
- Professionals moving into real estate who need to work in English across countries
- Anyone who must check licence, AML and energy rules before working in a new country
What do you need to start?
Prior knowledge
- No prior knowledge of real estate is needed
- Basic arithmetic for percentages and rent calculations
- A working level of written English, as the course uses English property and legal terms
Software and equipment
- A computer with an internet connection
- A spreadsheet program for rent rolls and reconciliation checks
- No specific property management platform is required; the course teaches the records and data model common to all of them
What you'll be able to do
- Work out, for a job advert in any country, whether a licence is needed, who must hold it and where it is registered
- Run a tenancy through its ten operational steps and name the document each one produces
- Build a rent roll and calculate void loss, unpaid rent and arrears against the correct denominators
- Triage a reported fault by urgency and, separately, by who bears the cost
- Reconcile a rent roll against the asset register, the previous month and the bank before it is sent
- Sort client requests into answer, refer or decline, and write replies with a fact, referral and next date
- State which EPBD obligations apply to a building, on what date and under which national law
- Move an enquiry from lead to offer in English, with traceable listing claims and a one-page client report
Skills you will practise
- Rent roll
- Arrears management
- Tenancy lifecycle
- Data reconciliation
- Property management systems
- AML/KYC
- Sanctions screening
- EPBD
- Valuation standards
- Business English correspondence
Syllabus
- The industry and where juniors start — Who pays a property manager and on what basis, and which entry-level roles exist in management and transaction teams.
- Do I need a licence? — How to identify the regulator, firm versus individual licences, protected titles, public registers and renewal, using Ireland, Belgium, France and Spain.
- Tenure, title and the transaction in English — Freehold, leasehold, ground rent and service charges, and why English-law terms must be checked against the property's jurisdiction.
- Lettings and property management operations — The tenancy lifecycle, rent rolls, arrears steps from day two, fair referencing, repair triage, check-out deductions and deposits.
- Systems: how the work actually gets done — The five record types in a property management system, three reconciliation checks, and tracing report errors back to their source records.
- Working with international clients — Answering, referring or declining requests, honest remote viewings, and sharing personal data only as far as needed through controlled channels.
- Valuation fundamentals and international standards — Why an online estimate is not a valuation: what is being valued, where the figure comes from and who may sign it.
- Buildings, energy and the EU rulebook — Reading an energy certificate and determining which Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) obligations actually apply to a given building under national law.
- AML, KYC and sanctions — Customer due diligence, beneficial ownership and sanctions checks in property deals, and the supervisor's role, with the Irish PSRA as example.
- Professional communication and the commercial process in English — Handling leads, viewings, offers and negotiations in writing, with traceable listings, four-part emails, client reports and same-day refusals.
Internship agreement
An intern with this course could support a lettings or property management team: updating tenancy records, preparing and reconciling rent rolls, logging arrears actions and triaging maintenance requests. Other suitable tasks include drafting client emails and reports, organising viewings or assisting with KYC document collection. You find the host company yourself, and the school issues the internship agreement.
The internship can run at the same time as the course, within the 180 days of access.
Frequently asked questions
What job does the Real Estate Management course prepare me for, and does it give me a licence?
The Real Estate Management course prepares you for junior work in lettings and property management, such as property administrator tasks in tenancies, rent rolls, arrears, systems and client correspondence. It does not give you a licence to practise. It shows you how to find out whether the country you work in requires one, and whether employees need their own. It does not set out the qualifications the Irish PSRA requires for each licence category. Signing a valuation is a separate permission.
What could I actually do during the internship, and who finds the company?
You find the host company yourself, for example a letting agency, property manager or residential block owner. The school then issues the internship agreement and its annex. The company signs electronically, usually within one or two working days. Relevant tasks from the course include keeping tenancy and contact records accurate, building and checking rent rolls, following up arrears and handling maintenance requests. You could also draft viewing follow-ups and client reports in English.
Which rules, standards and methods does the course cover?
The course covers licensing regimes and public registers in several European countries, including Ireland's PSRA and Catalonia's AICAT register. It explains the EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) and how it reaches owners through national law. It also covers anti-money-laundering, customer identification (KYC) and sanctions duties, including Ireland's Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010. On the practical side, it teaches rent roll arithmetic, reconciliation checks, data minimisation and international valuation fundamentals.
Do I need experience with a specific property management software to get started in this field?
No. The course argues that employability rests on understanding the records behind every report: property, unit, tenancy, contact and transaction. These are the same in every product, whereas a named platform is not what makes you employable. Spanish and French job adverts for this work often ask for a driving licence rather than a named platform, and agencies often train new staff on their own system after hiring. The course teaches the data model and the checks that transfer between tools.
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Content updated: 07/10/2026