Colombia. La Lonja de Propiedad de Raíz de Bogotá will invest $400 billion (US$190 million) in the first phase of this educational center. In the current year the academic offer has doubled. In 2013, 22 courses were given for appraisers, commission agents and real estate agents, and this year the plan has been 47.
Consequently, the Lonja de Propiedad Raíz de Bogotá, which together with Corferias organized the IX Great Real Estate Salon, will create the first real estate university in the country.
The initiative to create a university responds to the new possibilities created by Law 1673 of July 19, 2013, which seeks to formalize employment in the sector and increase the quality of real estate brokers in the country.
The plan of this organization, according to executive president Jorge Enrique Gómez, is to convert in the next 24 months its academic area into the Institute of Technical and Technological Education as a first step and later, for 2019, make the leap to professional education, which will include undergraduate degrees specialized in real estate management.
In this way, it seeks to professionalize real estate agents in Colombia and their specialization in issues such as housing for the elderly, shopping centers, ecological buildings, sales of Priority Interest Housing, among other topics.
