Real Estate PPP & Land Value Capture Training Course

The Real Estate PPP & Land Value Capture Training Course equips government entities, municipalities, and public land owners with the knowledge needed to turn public land and public investment into lasting value through well-structured partnerships with the private sector. The course is written from the public side of the table. It serves officials in ministries, municipalities, and land and housing authorities across the Gulf and Africa who hold valuable land, face heavy demands on public budgets, and must show that any deal with a developer protects the public interest over a long period. Participants begin by treating public land as a portfolio that can be inventoried, assessed, and managed. They then compare the partnership structures used in real estate, including ground leases, build-operate-transfer arrangements, development rights agreements, land contribution joint ventures, and land swaps. The course explains how these differ from conventional infrastructure PPPs, since a real estate partnership usually relies on market demand and sales or rental income rather than on availability payments from government. Land value capture receives equal attention. Participants study how public investment and planning decisions raise land values, and how instruments such as betterment levies, developer contributions, the sale of development rights, air rights over transit stations, joint development around stations, land readjustment, and land auctions can return a share of that uplift to the public. They examine what each instrument needs in the way of legal authority, land records, valuation capacity, and administrative strength. The course also covers value for money, risk allocation, transparent tendering, unsolicited proposals, contract monitoring, and renegotiation, with reference to the World Bank PPP Reference Guide and the OECD Principles for Public Governance of PPPs. It is delivered through public-sector case studies, structuring exercises, a tender evaluation simulation, and a final workshop. Participants leave with a public land screening tool, a structure selection matrix, a value capture options assessment, a tender and evaluation outline, and a contract monitoring plan.