Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice

The Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice is the primary focal point for interaction with the real estate community.

The center will create and establish a leading interdisciplinary resource that inspires and fosters excellence in real estate education, research and service.  The center will be designed, developed and guided with the advice, insight and leadership of Arizona’s and the nation’s real estate community.  Academics from multiple disciplines and leading industry experts will collaborate on research that transcends the traditional capabilities of more narrowly focused enterprises. The center’s scholars will excel as the nation’s thought leaders in real estate as they:

• Create compelling research agendas with applications that help create, transform and sustain the environments in which we live and work.
• Take a leading role in addressing the wide range of social, political and economic issues that revolve around real estate. These may include rapid urbanization, financing mechanisms, home ownership affordability, environmental sustainability and new financial vehicles for real estate companies.
• Conduct research that results in data and knowledge essential to informed discussions that shape public policies about issues vital to the real estate industry.
• Establish a Real Estate Roundtable, bringing together members who are industry leaders dedicated to world-class professional execution.
• Deliver cutting-edge certificate programs and executive education courses that bring together leading practitioners and the nation’s best scholars.
• Assemble and host a board of advisors, made up of respected leaders from around the globe and based in one of the world’s great desert-city environments, that will enhance the center’s education, research and service missions.
• Facilitate knowledge exchange among real estate academics, researchers, students and practitioners through extraordinary seminars and conferences that provide unparalleled opportunities to meet industry leaders.
• Involve accomplished and respected practitioners in the classroom to inspire the next generation of sophisticated professionals and leaders.
• Direct students as they apply their classroom knowledge and innovation to real-world industry opportunities.

The center’s programs will create knowledge that improves the quality of life and transforms communities.  Thought leaders and practitioners will be influential in planning our cities and ensuring that our communities are sustainable.  We will raise the level of knowledge and dialogue surrounding such topics as design, construction, portfolio strategies and public/private initiatives.