Master in Real Estate, Urbanism, Environment and Smart Cities
Program director:
Dña. Rosa Mª Vidal Monferrer
Campus:
Online
Date:
September 2026
LANGUAGE:
Spanish
Shape the future of cities by combining law, innovation, and sustainability.
The Master’s Degree in Real Estate, Urban Planning, Environment, and Smart Cities offers advanced, integrated training to understand and manage the legal challenges of contemporary urban environments. This program prepares you to act with judgment in projects that require a multidisciplinary perspective—from urban planning and environmental sustainability to infrastructure management and the implementation of smart solutions that transform city life.
Through a practical, case-based approach, you will develop key competencies that enable you to advise on real estate development, urban regulatory compliance, environmental strategies, and smart city projects. This training elevates your professional profile to operate effectively in specialized law firms, consultancies, public institutions, and companies driving innovation and the transformation of the cities of the future.
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Introduction and objectives
This master’s degree offers a broad and in-depth learning of all the legal, economic, strategic and financial elements that make up town planning and the real estate world.
Due to its current and future importance, it also pays special attention to environmental and technological aspects, which are essential in the new city model.
The aim is to train experts with a global knowledge of the sector, whose technical knowledge is translated into those skills that distinguish successful professionals.
To achieve this goal, the student will have a methodology aimed at practice and a faculty formed by excellent professionals in the sector, with extensive and well accredited experience in the same.
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Structure, location and calendar
CAMPUS: Madrid
START: September
DURATION: one academic year
This master’s program is composed of five different expert courses. It can be completed in its entirety to obtain the master’s degree or taken partially, focusing only on the courses of particular interest for specialization or deeper knowledge.
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Expert Course in Urban Planning and Urban Discipline (Modules I and II)
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Expert Course in Real Estate (Module III)
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Expert Course in Building and Housing (Module IV)
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Expert Course in Environment (Module V)
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Expert Course in Smart Cities (Module VI)
The online training is complemented by the following in-person workshops:
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Urban Planning Workshop
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Licensing Workshop
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Project Analysis and Feasibility Workshop
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Environmental Impact Assessment Workshop
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Smart Cities Workshop
Upon enrollment, access will be granted to the introductory course materials on accounting and business finance.
Career Opportunities
The Master in Real Estate, Urban Planning, Environment and Smart Cities is designed to train experts, from a multidisciplinary and practical approach, providing them with a global knowledge of the economy and a recognized and differentiated technical dimension of the sector.
After obtaining the qualification of this master, you will be able to practice in a wide range of professional opportunities, in organizations such as:
- National and international law firms, in areas such as real estate, urban planning and environmental law with technological application.
- International consultants specialized in environment and Real Estate.
- Legal advice to companies.
- Engineering and construction companies.
- Land management and real estate development entities.
ACADEMIC PROGRAM
BASIC PRINCIPLES OF LAND-USE PLANNING
- Constitutional principles governing territorial and urban development
- General principles of urban planning
- Distribution of powers between the State and the Autonomous Communities
- Current legislation
- Catalogue of citizens’ rights and duties in territorial and urban development
- Foundations of land-use regulation
- Public land assets
URBAN PLANNING
- Urban planning
- Comparative study of the Autonomous Communities
- Plans: processing, approval, and validity
- General Urban Development Plan (PGOU)
- Partial Plans
- Special Plans
- Interior Reform Plans
- Plans and actions on Non-Developable Land
- Catalogues and Detailed Studies
- Suprarregional territorial actions
- Territorial Planning Justification Document
- Out-of-planning regime: semi-consolidated areas
URBAN MANAGEMENT
- Urban management: basic concepts
- Urban planning obligations in urban transformation actions
- Implementation systems in Spanish urban planning law
- Equal distribution techniques
- Implementation systems
- Urban planning agreements
- Registration of urban planning actions in the Land Registry
- Integrated Action Programs: legal, technical, and economic aspects
- Processing of Integrated Action Programs
- Development rights and allocation areas: economic valuation
- Building uses and typologies: weighting coefficients
- Isolated Action Program (PAA)
- Duty to build and compulsory development
- Notarial intervention in urban planning activity
- Urban action and the Land Registry in expropriation and land readjustment
URBAN VALUATIONS
- Technical perspective
- Legal perspective
PROPERTY LIABILITY
URBAN CONTROL, PROMOTION AND DISCIPLINE: LICENSES, INFRINGEMENTS, PROCEDURES
- Urban planning licenses: acts subject to licensing
- Authority, procedure, and effects of urban planning licenses
- Sector-specific licenses and their processing
- Licenses for public events and activities
- Protection of urban legality. Urban inspection
- Urban planning infringements and sanctions
- Criminal infringements and sanctions
- Protection and restoration of urban legality
- Issues related to enforcement of judgments in urban matters
- Urban discipline. Sanctioning procedures in urban matters
- Judicial bodies, jurisdiction and standing in administrative litigation. Parties’ claims
- Administrative litigation procedure: single or first instance; expedited procedure
- Appeals regime
- Enforcement of judgments and special proceedings
GENERAL BLOCK
- Economic environment
- Real estate sector
- Finance
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- Capital markets
- General concepts of real estate valuation
- Investment analysis
- Financial models
- Stakeholders in the real estate market
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- Developers
- Investors
- SOCIMIs
- Financiers
- Capital markets
- Servicers, technicians and consultancies
- New technologies in Real Estate
- E-commerce: impact on the real estate sector
- Blockchain and the real estate market
- Online agencies
REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT
- Negotiation and conflict management in the real estate business
- Urban planning and Public Administration
- Due diligence: essential legal and technical aspects in the acquisition of real estate assets
- Real estate marketing and commercialization
- Servicing and NPLs in the real estate market
- The real estate development business:
- Conceptualization
- Execution: coordination between technical teams, project and construction
- Financing: developer loans, mortgage financing
- Types of development: residential, tertiary, industrial
- Management through housing cooperatives
- Exit and divestment
- Practical cases
- Residential rental market
- International real estate investment:
- Europe
- America
- Asset repositioning and urban regeneration
- Construction: principles, trends, fundamentals and design
- Sustainability and trends in the real estate market
- Project management: timelines and project management
- Income-generating asset management:
- Offices
- Retail
- Hotels
- Logistics
REGULATION OF BUILDING
- The building process: stakeholders, responsibilities, guarantees. Legal aspects
- The building process: basic requirements. Technical Building Code. Technical aspects
- The technical project: basic and execution projects. Quality control. Building logbook
- Technical professionals involved: project and site management. Responsibilities
- Municipal ordinances: infringements
- The right to build in Spanish urban planning
- Requirements: compliance with urban duties, basic land situations, serviced plot status, license
- Subjective competence
- Legal title to build: ownership, assignment, change of works, surface rights, overbuilding rights and administrative concessions
- Breach of duty: discipline and sanctions, substitute execution
- Infrastructure: water, electricity, telecommunications, gas, photovoltaic energy
- Processing of construction, urbanization and installation projects
- Intermediation in real estate contracting: consumer protection
- Horizontal property regime: common and private elements. Owners’ associations
URBAN REHABILITATION AND REGENERATION
REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT
- REAL ESTATE CONTRACTING
- Typical contracts
- New contracts
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL
- Evolution of environmental policy. Environmental law
- Environmental competences and liabilities
- Prior environmental intervention
- International framework: environment within the EU
- Administrative environmental intervention instruments. Environmental licensing regime
- Introduction: types of pollution
- Impact assessment and types of impact
- Environmental control in non-developable land
- Environmental control in facilities
- Environmental regulation of facilities
- Technical Commission for environmental planning
- Issues related to sharing
- Coastal Law, Roads Law
- Civil aviation regulations
- Fire prevention regulations
- Environmental pollution prevention law
- Water regulations: water cycle, water quality, water management and sanitation
- Waste: classification, management, regulation
- Waste reuse and recycling systems
- Air pollution: chemical air pollution
- Treatment and purification systems. Emissions management
- Noise pollution
- Prevention systems and infringements
- Soil contamination: groundwater
- Technology and control: regulation
- Energy efficiency: regulatory framework
- Renewable energy
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
- Environmental health: occupational risk prevention
- Current regulations on occupational risks: administrative competences
TERRITORIAL PLANNING: NON-DEVELOPABLE LAND
- Special plans on non-developable land: practical cases
- Environmental Impact Study: technical aspects
- SPAs and SCIs: technical and legal aspects
- Special studies on non-developable land: flood risk, erosion, management plans
- Landscape studies: technical and legal aspects
- Public participation plan
- Illegal uses and buildings on non-developable land: regularization options
- Practical issues in municipal management of non-developable land
- Protected non-developable land
- Landscape restoration and integration: dismantling program
- Requests for sectoral reports: archaeology, water authorities, etc.
- Infringements on non-developable land
- Crimes related to land-use planning and protection of heritage and the environment: real cases
SUSTAINABILITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
- General concepts and global analysis
- Elements of sustainability
- Sustainability applied to productive sectors
- Sustainability and public policies
- International institutions and organizations
- Sustainability applied to business
- Project financing and international project development
- Efficiency and business opportunities
- Local development and sustainable development: Agenda 21
- Municipal sustainability strategy
- Citizen participation and local government
- Transparency
- Integration of School Agenda 21 into Local Agenda 21 initiatives
- Management of natural areas and planning for sustainability
- Energy sustainability
CONCEPT AND REGULATION
- Smart City concept. National Smart Cities Plan
- Digital Agenda for Spain
- Public Business Entity Red.es
- Smart city standards (SETSI): standards linked to Committee AEN/CTN 178/SC1
- Smart dimensions
- The process of building a Smart City
- Implementation of Smart City projects in the European Union
SMART CITY FINANCING
- Public subsidies
- European funds: ERDF funds and Integrated Sustainable Urban Development Strategy (EDUSI)
- Equity financing
- Generation of urban capital gains. Urban regeneration
- Public policies: creation of public companies for urban development
- Financing borne by landowners
- Special focus on land readjustment projects, expropriation projects and Compensation Boards
- Financing through investment funds, especially foreign capital funds
TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT OF SMART CITIES
- Introduction to technological solutions and projects for Smart Cities
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- 2D and 3D solutions
- Building Information Modeling (BIM)
- City service and maintenance management. Metrics and transparency
PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SMART CITIES (PPP)
- Public Sector Contracts Law: principles and new features
- Structural elements of contracts. Contract preparation
- Contract award: procurement techniques
- Effects, modification and termination of contracts
- Works contracts
- Public works concession contracts
- Service and service management contracts
- Supply contracts
- Analysis of Directives 2014/23/EU and 2014/24/EU of 26 February 2014
ADDITIONAL MODULE: REAL ESTATE AGENT OF CATALONIA. MODULE TO BE CONTRACTED SEPARATELY FOR THOSE WISHING TO ACCESS THE CATALONIA AGENTS REGISTER.
- Real Estate Agent and Property Management
- Right to property. Right to housing
- Real estate law
Legislation on urban leases
- Mortgage law
- Urban planning and housing law
- Real estate valuation
- Real estate development
- Marketing and commercialization
- Professional real estate law. Professional practice
- Code of ethics
- Catalonia Real Estate Agents Register
- Consumer law: consumers’ rights in the purchase and rental of housing
FACULTY
- Alberto Palomar Olmeda – Partner, Public Law Area. BROSETA
- Alberto Rodríguez Galvez – Altamira Asset Management
- Álvaro Gámez Serracarbassa – Partner, Insolvency Area. Broseta
- Amparo Canillas García – Partner, Litigation and Arbitration Area. BROSETA
- Ángel Labrador Martínez – Compliance Team Manager – BROSETA
- Ángel Valero Fernández-Reyes – Property Registrar of Madrid
- Antonio Díaz-Barceló Caffarena – President of Euroconsulting
- Carlos Soucase Furió – Compliance Team Director – BROSETA
- Carmen Moreno Balboa – Head of Urban Planning of Villanueva del Pardillo. Municipal Architect. Head of the Urban Planning and Technical Services Department
- Enrique Beaus Climent – Partner. Head of the Valencia Tax Department. Broseta
- Enrique Hervas Micolau – Broseta
- Felipe Iglesias González – Consultant at Uría Menéndez. Tenured Professor in the Public Law Area, Autonomous University of Madrid
- Fermín Muñoz Muñoz
- Fernando Cacho Barbeira – Partner, Public Law Area. BROSETA
- Francisco Agustín Ribes Revuelto – Key Accounts Manager, FAMA SYSTEMS, S.A.
- Francisco Javier Fuertes López – Doctor of Law. Judge
- Francisco Ruiz Risueño – BROSETA
- Gil Manuel Perea – Lawyer, Public Law Area, BROSETA
- Guillermina Yanguas Montero – Administrative Court Judge. Corresponding Academic at the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation
- Íñigo López Fernández de Mesa – Founding Partner, Duplo Abogados
- Joaquín Jalvo Mínguez – Urban Architect. Estudio Jalvo
- Jorge Pérez-Curto Menéndez – Managing Director, Domusrs
- José Antonio Granero Ramírez – Architect and Founding Partner, CGR Arquitectos and Paralelo 39 Ideas y Proyectos
- José Daniel González Torrres – Senior Lawyer, Public Law Area, BROSETA
- Juan María de Jove Mateos – Project Manager at IFS
- Juan Venegas Corrales – Managing Director, Alantra FIG
- Julián Mateos Izquierdo – Founding Partner, Duplo Abogados
- Lorenzo Peña – General Director, Construction Area, Asentis Plus, S.L.
- Lourdes Barriuso Lapresa – Regulatory & Public Affairs Officer, Sareb
- Luis Miguel Pascual Asiain – Regional Director, Central-North Delegation, METROVACESA, S.A.
- Luis Valentía Puig Fernández-Tubau – Doctor of Law and graduate in Business Administration. Lawyer and Real Estate Agent
- Manuel Amor Suárez – Co-Manager and Board Member of ABECONSA. Provincial Association of Construction Entrepreneurs of A Coruña. Chamber of Commerce of A Coruña
- María Faubel Gorrea – Lawyer, Litigation Area, BROSETA
- María Galindo García-Delgado – Manager, International & Smart City Business, DOXA INNOVA&SMART
- María López Martínez – Legal advisor in urban planning at Madrid City Council for fourteen years and for eight years as a private urban planning consultant. Specialist in expropriations and urban regeneration
- Miguel Ángel Falcón Escalona – Managing Director/Managing Partner, Colliers Servicios Técnicos, S.L.
- Mónica Arduán – National Director of Valuations, Savills Aguirre Newman
- Nuria Portell – Senior Lawyer, Administrative and Urban Planning Law Area, BROSETA
- Oscar Nacher Martí – Legal Unit of Madrid. CAJAMAR, CAJA RURAL, S.C.C.
- Paz González – Urban Consulting
- Rafael Mateu Villanueva – Partner / Head of Asset Services Spain, Cushman & Wakefield
- Ramón Terol – Associate Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Alicante. Member of the Spanish Environmental Law Association (ADAME); Reviewer for the Aranzadi Environmental Law and Environmental Legal Current Affairs Journal
- Rosa María Vidal Monferrer – Partner. Director, Public Law Area. BROSETA. Director of the Master in Urban Planning, Environment and Smart Cities ISDE – BROSETA
- Sofía Cabedo Usó – Senior Lawyer, Public Law Area, BROSETA
- Susana Evangelista – Digital Player – Account Director, BySidecar
- Venancio Gutiérrez Colomina – Secretary General of the Hon. City Council of Málaga
*Faculty is subject to change
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Once the relevant Program has concluded and ISDE has verified that the STUDENT has completed their work satisfactorily, the STUDENT will receive the corresponding Degree certificate for each PROGRAM.
In compliance with current legality and, specifically, as set forth in article 4.4 of decree 84/2004, it is noted that ISDE’s programs are professionally oriented and therefore, unless explicitly stated otherwise, they are courses that do not lead to the acquisition of a title with official value, but to that of a proprietary title from ISDE.