Real Estate Program
Faculty
The faculty at the Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban Economics at the Haas School includes some of the most accomplished, most highly regarded professors and professionals in the business.
Robert H. Edelstein, Professor, Maurice Mann Chair in Real Estate, and Fisher Center Co-Chair, studies real estate economics, finance, and property taxation; energy and environmental economics; public finance; and urban financial problems.
Robert Helsley, Professor, Haas Chair in Real Estate Development, and Fisher Center Co-Chair, studies the development of urban areas, land markets, and government tax, spending and regulatory policies.
Dwight M. Jaffee, Professor, Willis Booth Professor of Banking, Finance, and Real Estate, and Fisher Center Co-Chair, studies real estate finance, catastrophe insurance and the subprime mortgage crisis.
Atif R. Mian,
Associate Professor of Finance and Real Estate at the Haas School of Business; Associate Professor of Finance at the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley; and Fisher Center Co-Chair, studies finance and the macro economy, financial intermediation, household finance, political economy of financial markets, and development economics.
John Quigley, Professor and Director of the Berkeley Program on Housing & the Urban Economy, studies the integration of real estate, mortgage and financial markets; urban labor markets; housing; spatial economics; and local public finance.
Kenneth T. Rosen, Fisher Center Chairman, is directly responsible for revitalizing the Fisher Center. Revered for his real estate and economic forecasts, he also studies real estate securitization, REITs, commercial real estate dynamics, and real estate e-commerce.
Alexei Tchistyi, Assistant Professor, focuses on mortgages, mortgage backed securities, mortgage contract design, financial innovations, dynamic contracting, agency theory and corporate finance.
Nancy E. Wallace, Professor, Lisle and Roslyn Payne Chair in Real Estate and Capital Markets, Real Estate Group, Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy Co-Faculty Director and Fisher Center Co-Chair, studies asset-backed securitization and real estate investment analysis, strategy, and finance.
• Lecturers Arden Hall, David Nelson (Wells Fargo’s Corporate Properties Group), Dennis M. Williams (Northmarq Capital) and William Falik (Adjunct Professor, Berkeley Law) augment Haas’ Real Estate faculty group.
