A number of students from TU Dublin's School of Real Estate and Construction Management have travelled to Italy to take part in this year's International Real Estate Challenge (IREC) 2019.

The school's eight students study across the Property Economics and Auctioneering, Valuation and Estate Agency courses.

IREC is an international competition with student teams, both undergraduate and postgraduate, from universities and polytechnics in Italy, Slovakia, Russia, Germany, Poland and Ireland taking part.

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Two TU students got to the final round of the competition, with Cara McDowell contributing strongly on the winning Leipzig team.

The challenge began in Milan where the students were put into groups with students from the various universities. They were then given the hypothetical client strategic brief outlining their clients' requirements about real estate in the future. Each group was allocated a city, and once they had established their clients' needs, they travelled to that city to investigate the real estate options available for their client. There they inspected three buildings and had presentations from an international firm of Chartered Surveyors.

The final stage of the challenge involved the student groups returning to Milan to pitch their allocated city and real estate choices to experts from the Italian business and real estate world.

(CM/JG)