Menka Sethi

Menka Sethi is an accomplished consultant and professor in the field of real estate development and finance. Menka has managed mixed-use, residential, and office development, new construction and leasing projects that ranged from $5 million to $100 million in size, and involved complex entitlement processes, and at times the use of tax credit equity. Menka’s recent experience also includes management responsibility for a $230 million leased commercial real estate portfolio for U.S. General Services Administration. Menka is an adjunct faculty member at California Polytechnic University where she teaches Real Estate Finance in the Orfalea School of Business. She is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and Columbia University from which she holds Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Business Administration degrees, respectively. Menka is also a licensed architect.

Courses taught by Menka Sethi

Multi-Family Property Valuation Case Study for Planners

This course will take planners through a case study multi-family property valuation. The course will build upon previous course topics of time discounting, internal rate of return, net operating income, lease structures, debt payments, and risk assessment.

67 Mins

AICP CM

CNU-A

Office Property Valuation Case Study for Planners

This course offers a case study of office property valuation, building upon topics from previous courses, including time discounting, internal rate of return, net operating income, lease structures, debt payments, and risk assessment.

83 Mins

AICP CM

CNU-A

Property Cash Flow Analysis for Planners

This course will introduce planners to property cash flow analysis, which provides the foundation for real estate pro forma analysis.

72 Mins

AICP CM

CNU-A

Property Valuation for Planners

This course builds on topics covered in the previous two courses from this series, time value of money and property cash flow, to undertake a discounted cash flow analysis of property value.

54 Mins

AICP CM

CNU-A

Real Estate Debt for Planners

This course introduces planners to basic concepts of real estate debt, including metrics used in obtaining a mortgage and other concepts like borrowing capacity, and amortization analysis.

73 Mins

AICP CM

CNU-A

Time Value of Money for Planners

This course will introduce planners to the concept of time value of money that will provide the foundation for real estate pro forma analysis.

80 Mins

AICP CM

CNU-A