Global Real Estate Policy

This course provides a comprehensive overview of real estate finance and policy. After developing a framework to analyze the global financial crisis, we will cover current issues. The study of the post-crisis period will focus on changes in preferences, technology, and the factors that brought the current housing affordability crisis. While the course will initially focus on the U.S. we will provide a thorough international perspective that will analyze both advanced and less developed countries (with particular attention paid to China and India). We will conclude the course discussing how global real estate asset flows may be a key source of international tension.