MIT Center for Real Estate

MIT Center for Real Estate The MIT Center for Real Estate has a rich, 33-year history of advancing the art and science of international real estate.

Envisioning the industry’s integrated stewardship of its land and products, MIT CRE provides tomorrow’s practitioners with the means to transform an ever more vital, complex and global market. Our pioneering research investigates the real estate transaction from initial concept to market reality, allowing us to provide thought leadership that helps organizations around the globe capitalize on today’s dynamic markets and technologies.

09/04/2026

MSRED Orientation is complete! Welcome to MIT class of 2027! Make the most of the academic year!
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CRE alumnae Tamara Knox and Natasha Sadikin's firm won Small Lots, Big Impacts LA Private Land RFI this summer. The awar...
08/27/2026

CRE alumnae Tamara Knox and Natasha Sadikin's firm won Small Lots, Big Impacts LA Private Land RFI this summer.

The award makes their firm, Frolic Community, eligible for financing to develop a pilot project for attainable missing middle homeownership on privately-owned land in Los Angeles.

Frolic's projects are financed and sold as co-ops, drawing design inspiration from Danish co-housing. Developments are going up in Seattle, the Bay Area and soon – Los Angeles.

Learn more: https://www.frolic.community/approach

The RED Studio course focuses on the synthesis of urban, mixed-use real estate projects, including the integration of ph...
08/11/2026

The RED Studio course focuses on the synthesis of urban, mixed-use real estate projects, including the integration of physical design and programming with finance and marketing.

Interdisciplinary student teams analyze how to maximize value across multiple dimensions.

Introducing Wellspring Fort Point, by team Sophia Chou, Sean Lee, Isabelle Turri, and Sophia Campbell (MCP Dual)

Build site details: 2M sf mixed-use development
Master plan concept: 770 condominiums, 1000 hotel keys, 70k sf medical offices, 110k sf spa/fitness/food & beverage
Special features: $150M+ public benefits: affordable housing payout, active park funding, community health clinic, urban farming, wellness services job training

Principal Research Scientist, Fábio Duarte's paper "Urban motifs associated with population health" is published in Natu...
07/28/2026

Principal Research Scientist, Fábio Duarte's paper "Urban motifs associated with population health" is published in Nature Health.

Fábio and coauthors find that urban design is a powerful driver of public health. Analyzing more than 28,000 U.S. census tracts and over 8 million street-view images, researchers found that walkable neighborhoods with well-connected blocks, mixed-use streets, abundant greenery, and access to cultural and commercial amenities are strongly associated with better physical and mental health outcomes independent of socioeconomic factors.

Smart urban planning may be one of the most cost-effective tools available for reducing health disparities and easing the burden on health care systems.

MIT News coverage → https://news.mit.edu/2026/how-urban-design-leads-to-better-wellness-0701

MIT/CRE alumna Elaheh Demirchelie was recently honored by the San Francisco Business Times as one of the Most Influenti...
07/23/2026

MIT/CRE alumna Elaheh Demirchelie was recently honored by the San Francisco Business Times as one of the Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business 2026. The recognition celebrates her contributions to the Bay Area’s built environment, spanning her roles at Mark Cavagnero Associates, Greystar Real Estate Partners, and Demirchelie LLC.

Elaheh is a real estate developer and architect currently serving as Director at Greystar, where she leads ground-up mixed-use, master-planned, and multifamily developments. She earned her Master of Science in Real Estate Development from MIT/CRE alongside graduate and undergraduate degrees in architecture from Georgia Tech.

Read more: https://sites.mit.edu/cre/news-insights/a-career-built-on-impact-cre-alumna-elaheh-demirchelie-named-among-bay-areas-most-influential-women/

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💡 Join the upcoming research workshop "Asian Urban Futures: Technology, Development, and Local Economies" on July 29, at...
07/14/2026

💡 Join the upcoming research workshop "Asian Urban Futures: Technology, Development, and Local Economies" on July 29, at CRE co-organized by the MIT Asia Real Estate Initiative & Research Center for Small Business Ecosystem at Inha University 인하대학교 (Korea).

🗓️ Wednesday, July 29, @ 10 am
📍 Building 9, CRE Lecture Hall (9-354)

This workshop explores emerging research trends and key debates on urban change and development in Asia. Through invited talks and discussions, it will examine how technology, economic transformation, and local development are reshaping Asian cities, and how these changes are being understood across different scholarly approaches.

Attendance is open to the public, but registration is required.

🔗 Sign up: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdUDab4KvPm812H5vMzGKXOezTtOda1o76gXWljcqavjvAb8Q/viewform

MIT School of Architecture + Planning

07/11/2026

In the SEASON FINALE of season 3, Eric Plesman, President & CEO of Oxford Properties, challenges prevailing narratives on institutional real estate investing. MSRED Cherry Tang digs into whether permanent pension capital changes investment decisions, what separates trophy office from secular decline, and why patient capital makes you behave differently than investors operating on defined timelines...

Listen now: https://cre.mit.edu/podcast/

The American Real Estate Society (ARES) has awarded Professor Albert Saiz the David Ricardo Medal, the organization’s hi...
07/07/2026

The American Real Estate Society (ARES) has awarded Professor Albert Saiz the David Ricardo Medal, the organization’s highest honor for scholarly achievement. For more than two decades, Albert Saiz, the Daniel Rose Professor of Urban Economics and Real Estate at MIT, Director of the Urban Economics Lab and former Director of MIT Center for Real Estate (CRE), has helped shape how scholars, policymakers, and practitioners understand housing markets, land-use regulation, and the forces that drive urban growth.

In recognition of that work, presented at the annual ARES conference in March 2026, the medal recognizes researchers whose published work has made sustained and influential contributions to the real estate field over at least 20 years.

Learn more: https://cre.mit.edu/news-insights/albert-saiz-awarded-2026-david-ricardo-medal/

06/30/2026

Celebrating the 40th Anniversary one year ago - the event brought together a MIT/CRE leadership panel which included the founders and current leadership. Listen to the founders share their vision for the first US real estate development masters program (including Bill Wheaton's) and how that has been the basis for real estate programs across the US.

💡 We're sharing the highlights through the end of June!

📺 Watch: https://youtu.be/qkQ-57d5HpU?si=6IBy7T5M5Ogm5dyb
🔗 Full 40th Anniversary Playlist: https://lnkd.in/dM4tT7Bh

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