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Our professorial contributors illuminate the latest academic research in real estate and economic policy

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Valuations and Write-Downs: Notes from a recent private meeting of USA real estate investors, thinkers and operators

by Norm Miller | May 24, 2024

Background: The Hoyt Institute is an invite only think tank based in North Palm Beach, Florida, where industry research leaders and academics partake in a few days of in-depth discussions on topics of interest to the commercial real estate industry and housing analysts. Fractional ownership,...

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Humans v AI

by Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian, Fabio Cuzzolin and Wojtek Buczyn | Feb 17, 2022

Here’s who’s better at making money in financial markets. Artificial intelligence (AI) has now closely matched or even surpassed humans in what were previously considered...

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Finding value in co-living space

by David Higgins and Peter Wood | Feb 14, 2022

There is more than one way to inhabit a city,say these authors. As the future of work is changing, we now find ourselves at a stage where demand for quality, convenience and...

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Death by inflation or by interest rate hikes?

by Daniel Fernández | Feb 10, 2022

Inflation is skyrocketing in practically the entire world. Central banks are getting scared and beginning to announce the end of expansionary measures, also known...

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Breathe easier

by Chyi Lin Lee and Jianing Wang | Feb 9, 2022

Does air quality enhancement lead to higher house prices and rents? Our recent study, which is published by Energy Policy (this article is a media summary of the full article of...

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The distorted market for woke capitalism

by Samuel Gregg | Feb 3, 2022

Originally published October 2021. The founder of modern economics, Adam Smith, was no fan of the merchants of his time. He regarded them as among the most responsible for how...

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Offices 3.0

by Tom Duncan | Feb 3, 2022

We are in the midst of the next evolutionary cycle. Enforced mass home-working caused by the pandemic has viscerally demonstrated that in today’s tech-infused world,...