Real Estate
Over the past two decades institutional investors have experienced increased allocation to “alternative” private‐market assets like commercial real estate (CRE). Indeed, CRE comprises an estimated at $23 trillion in total value in the United States alone with roughly $8 trillion considered to be of institutional investment quality. With the growing allocations to CRE, investment professionals increasingly need access to quantitative tools and transparency on par with the other portfolio asset classes.
The Commercial Real Estate Data Alliance (CREDA) is a consortium of academics and industry professionals dedicated to achieving data parity with other major asset classes. Specifically, we believe that improved access to and understanding of available data in commercial real estate is key to fostering higher quality research and interactions between academia and industry, to the benefit of the entire CRE community.
CREDA is currently leading several new research data initiatives:
1. Launching a data merging methodology initiative based on the Unique Building ID (UBID) concept by the Department of Energy. Open source code is available here and a video describing the project is available here.
2. Studying the impact of climate risk on CRE debt underwriting partnering with LightBox, FirstStreet.Org, and UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.
Further details on CREDA’s efforts are available in the report “Commercial Real Estate Data: Towards Parity with Other Asset Classes”. More
Latest Real Estate Research
Leverage in Private Equity Real Estate
This paper reviews the scant academic literature on the use of leverage in institutional private equity real estate (PERE) investments and summarize a number of stylized facts. The bulk of available evidence supports the view that leverage, as used by high-risk PERE funds, does not adequately compensate limited partners for the risk that it adds. More
Investment with Social Impact: Evidence from Commercial Real Estate Investment by Public Pension Funds
This paper studies whether and how investments by public pension funds result in a different social impact, measured by employment growth, relative to investments by other large investors. Using commercial real estate (CRE) investments as a laboratory, I compare direct pension fund CRE investments to a counterfactual of real estate private equity (REPE) CRE investments. More
The Work-at-Home Technology Boon and its Consequences
We study the impact of widespread adoption of work-from-home (WFH) technology using an equilibrium model where people choose where to live, how to allocate their time between working at home and at the office, and how much space to use in production. More
Advisory Board
Jeffrey Fisher
David Geltner
David Ling
Rossen Valkanov
Nancy Wallace
Affiliates
Tom Arnold, University of Florida
Itzhak (Zahi) Ben-David, Ohio State University
Shaun Bond, University of Cincinnati
Andrea Chegut, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jim Clayton, York University
Bob Connolly, University of Miami
Dragana Cvijanovic, Warwick Business School, the University of Warwick
John Duca, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas & Oberlin College
Mike Eriksen, University of Cincinnati
Elyas Fermand, Santa Clara University
Jeffrey Fisher, Indiana University
Andra Ghent, University of Utah
Arpit Gupta, NYU Stern School of Business
Jonathan Robert Levin Halket, Texas A&M University
Lu Han, University of Toronto
David Hartzell, University of NC - Chapel Hill
Preetesh Kantak, Indiana University
Constantine Kontokosta, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John Krainer, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Crocker Liu, Cornell University
Peng Liu, Cornell University
Lara Loewenstein, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Greg MacKinnon, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Stanimira Milcheva, University College London
Tobias Mühlhofer, University of Miami
Joseph Nichols, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Joseph Pagliari, University of Chicago
Tomasz (Tomek) Piskorski, Columbia University
Michael Reher, University of California at San Diego
Tim Riddiough, University of Wisconsin
Spenser Robinson, Central Michigan University
Mauricio Rodriguez, Texas Christian University
Jacob Sagi, University of NC - Chapel Hill
Andrew Sanderford, University of Virginia
Eva Steiner, Penn State University
Alexei Tchistyi, Cornell University
Sheridan Titman, University of Texas - Austin
Alexander van de Minne, University of Connecticut
Susan Wachter, University of Pennsylvania