News & Research in Real Estate
News and Headlines
- PSU Real Estate Students Win 2009 NAIOP Competition in Seattle, WA - March, 2009
- PSU Associate Director and Adjunct Professor, Will Macht, wins ULI Leadership of Distinction Award - September, 2008
Research
"Center for Real Estate Quarterly, " Vol. 2, No. 4
by Will Macht, Greg LeBlanc and Elizabeth Warren, November, 2008.
"Center for Real Estate Quarterly, "Vol. 2, No. 3
by Will Macht, Greg LeBlanc and Elizabeth Warren, August, 2008.
"Center for Real Estate Quarterly," Vol. 2, No. 2
by Will Macht, Karen Thalhammer, and Greg LeBlanc, May, 2008.
"Center for Real Estate Quarterly," Vol. 2, No. 1
by Will Macht, Karen Thalhammer, and Greg LeBlanc, February, 2008.
"Center for Real Estate Quarterly," Vol. 1, No. 4
by Will Macht, Gerard C.S. Mildner, and Karen Thalhammer, November, 2007.
"Quarterly Real Estate Report," Vol. 1, No. 3; Map 1 Map 2
by Gerard C.S. Mildner, Erica Christensen, and Karen Thalhammer, August, 2007.
"Quarterly Real Estate Report," Vol. 1, No. 2
by Gerard C.S. Mildner and Erica Christensen, April, 2007.
"Quarterly Real Estate Report," Vol. 1, No. 1
by Gerard C.S. Mildner and Erica Christensen, January, 2007.
PSU's Center for Real Estate produces a Quarterly Real Estate Report, highlighting the current trends in real estate as well as an economic forecast of the real estate market. This report is made possible thanks to a donation by OAR (Oregon Association of Realtors). PSU's Center for Real Estate thanks the following organization for their generous participation in this report: Oregon Association of Realtors, Oregon RMLS, Norris Beggs & Simpson, Johnson Gardner, L.LC., Cushman & Wakefield, Wells Fargo, and Willamette Valley Multiple Listing Service.
"Trends in Vacant Single Family Land Values - Portland, Oregon 1990-2005" by John L. Hall and Gerard C.S. Mildner, May, 2006.
- In a recently completed study, a Portland State University research team has determined that the price for vacant residential land in the Portland metropolitan region rose 500% between 1990 and 2005. The study was conducted by researcher John L. Hall and Dr. Gerard C.S. Mildner, Director of the Center for Real Estate at Portland State University.
Real Estate Development Workshop Projects
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Six students from PSU's Real Estate Development Certificate program presented their redevelopment proposal for the Lincoln High School site
to over 130 local professionals at the October 2009 Business Briefing Breakfast. |
Several graduate real estate students participate in PSU's Real Estate Development Workshop course. In this class students form a real estate development team and produce an original development plan, including the development concept, the market analysis, the conceptual design, economic analysis, capital and operations budget, and management plan. The students' plan demonstrates and applies mastery of the development concepts and tools learned through their real estate certificate coursework.
During winter, this course is sponsored by NAIOP and students travel to Seattle, WA, to present their plan to over 300 persons, competing against 3 other real estate teams from various universities in the northwest. During spring term, the course is sponsored by the Building and Ownsers Management Association (BOMA) and students make their presentation to the local BOMA members at their membership meeting. Copies of the students' workshop projects can be found at the following links:
- Lincoln High School Redevelopment, Summer 2009
- Yale Blocks, NAIOP workshop, Spring 2008
- University Place, BOMA workshop, Spring 2007
- University Place, BOMA workshop, Spring 2007 (powerpoint presentation)
Real Estate Development Dissertation Topics
Housing
Land Use
International
Housing
An Impact Evaluation of Home Improvement Loans on Neighborhood Decline: The Case of Portland, Oregon. Geraldine Larkin,1979/80.
Housing the Low-Income, Urban Elderly: A Role for the Single Room Occupancy Hotel. Mary A. Burki, 1981/82.
Impacts of Environmental Design on Residential Crowding. Tieh-Yeu Huang, 1981/82.
Development of an Operational System for Monitoring Changes in Subarea Residential Housing Status. Harold C. Mba, 1981/82.
Fringe Area Growth in Metropolitan Portland: An Analysis of Space-Time Variations in Residential Housing and Land Conversion, 1970-1980. Sheku Gibril Kamara, 1983/84.
Economic Determinants of Residential Mortgage Choice. Marvin J. Horowitz, 1984/85.
Residential Mobility and Revitalization in Portland Between 1970 and 1980: A Study of the Urban Structural Impacts on Neighborhood Revitalization. Sheka G. Kamara, 1991-92.
Analyzing the Effect of Urban Growth Boundaries on Housing Prices. Abdullah Alkadi, 1995-96.
New Urbanism and the Elderly in Urban and Suburban Neighborhoods. Patricia Patterson, 1996-97.
Cohousing: A Qualitative Study of Practices in the Pacific Northwest. Nader Azab, 1997-98.
Movers and Stayers in Portland, Oregon's Central Eastside Industrial District. Peter Fry, 1998-99.
Re-Presenting the Post-Industrial Neighborhood: Planning and Redevelopment in Portland's Pearl District. Robert Jones, 1998-99.
Land Use
Evaluating Urban Containment Programs. Arthur C. Nelson, 1983/84.
Spatial Clustering of Sector Linked Industry in an Urban Economy. Colleen Greer Acres, 1984/85.
The Transformation of Urban Form: A Study of the Interaction Between Policy, Urban Form, and Change in a Small City. Elton H. Schatz, 1990-91.
Determining the Property Value Impact of Landfill. Okwuchukwu G. Uba, 1993-94.
Spatial Patterns of Urban Service Activities: An Empirical Study. Wonseon Kyung, 1994-95.
Determining the Effects of Environmental Disclosures Within Commercial Property Transactions. Gregory Madson, 1997-98.
Evolution of State Sponsored Land Use Planning. Jerry Weitz, 1998-99.
International
A Tale of Two Cities: Public Housing and Municipal Revenue Policy Making in San Jose, Costa Rica and San Salvador, El salvador. Barrett MacDougall, 1978/79.
Urban Housing Policy Evaluation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Tarek A. Fadaak, 1983/84.
The Spacial Distribution of Peri-Urban Agriculture in Developed Countries with Special Emphasis on United States SMSAs. Ibrahim Amin Asad Abdel-Karim, 1987/88.
Explorations into the Characteristics, the Determinants of Production, and the Impact of Land Policies on the Informal Housing Sector in Alexandria, Egypt. Mostafa M. El Araby, 1992-93.
Performance of the Housing Market in Abudhabi City and the Government Housing Policies. Nasser Almansoori, 1995-96.
