Real Estate Department Faculty at The Wharton School

Primary Real Estate Faculty

Fernando Ferreira
Assistant Professor of Real Estate
Research interests: urban economics and real estate; public economics; labor economics

Joseph Gyourko
Martin Bucksbaum Professor of Real Estate and Finance
Director, Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center
Chair, Real Estate Department
Research interests: Real estate finance; urban and real estate economics; housing markets

Peter D. Linneman
Albert Sussman Professor of Real Estate
Professor of Finance and Business and Public Policy
Research interests: Real estate finance and strategy; mergers and acquisitions

Georgette C. Phillips
David B. Ford Professor of Real Estate
Professor of Legal Studies and Law
Vice Dean, Wharton Undergraduate Division
Research interests: Real estate law; urban and regional planning; housing

Albert Saiz
Assistant Professor of Real Estate
Research interests: Real estate economics; urban economic development; local public finance

Todd Sinai
Associate Professor of Real Estate
Research interests: Risk and pricing in housing markets; taxation of real estate and capital gains; commercial real estate and real estate investment trusts; air traffic delays; real estate and public economics

Susan M. Wachter
Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management
Professor of Real Estate, Finance and City and Regional Planning
Research interests: Real estate economics; urban economics; housing finance

Grace Wong Bucchianeri
Assistant Professor of Real Estate
Research interests: Applied micro-economics; real estate economics; Asian housing markets; living conditions and health

Maisy Wong
Assistant Professor of Real Estate
Research interests: Real estate economics; public economics; development economics

Secondary Real Estate Faculty

Robert Inman
Richard King Mellon Professor of Finance;
Professor of Finance and Economics, Business and Public Policy, Law and Economics (Law School), Real Estate
Vice Dean and Director, Doctoral Programs; Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Research interests: Public finance, political economy, urban fiscal policy

Michael S. Knoll
Theodore K. Warner Professor of Law
Professor of Real Estate
Research Interests: Corporate finance; corporate and financial law; finance; income taxation; international trade; real estate transactions; tax law; tax policy; application of finance to law

Janice F. Madden
Robert C. Daniels Foundation Term Professor of Urban Studies, Regional Science, Sociology and Real Estate
Research interests: Urban and regional economics; labor market analysis

Janet R. Pack
Professor of Business and Public Policy and Real Estate
Research interests: Fiscal federalism and intergovernmental relations; political economy of economic policy; urban and regional economic development; foreign aid; privatization

Witold Rybczynski
Martin & Margy Meyerson Professor of Urbanism
Professor of Real Estate
Research interests: Architecture; urban design; urbanism; housing

Emeritus Real Estate Faculty

Anita A. Summers
Emeritus Professor of Public Policy and Management, Real Estate, and Education
Research interests: Urban economic development; urban public finance; educational finance

Adjunct Real Estate Faculty

Marja Hoek-Smit
Director, International Housing Program
Executive Director, Housing Finance Information Network
Research interests: Housing policy and housing finance for emerging and developing economies

Asuka Nakahara
Lecturer in Real Estate
Associate Director, Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center


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