Lecture Notes

Lecture note slideshows are available for each week of this course.


WEEK # LEC # TOPICS
1 1 The Real Estate Sector: The Capital and Property Markets (PDF)

1. Review of Economic Concepts
2 Micro and Macro Economic Analysis
2 3 Location and Rents: The Indifference Principle, Submarkets and Land Use Segregation (PDF)
4 Urban Growth, Rents and Prices
3 5 The Highest Use for Residential Development (PDF)

Location, Land Use and Density
6 Land Use Transition between Land Uses (Gentrification)
4 7 Historical Development and Changing Technology (PDF)

Transportation, and Shipping Costs

Tax and Public Policy Effects
5 8 The Office Market, and the Labor Market (PDF)
9 Theories of Multiple Centered Cities

1. Agglomeration and Clustering

2. The Commercial Land Market
6 10 Retail Travel Patterns and the Distribution of Stores (PDF)

Pricing and Spatial Competition
11 Shopping Centers and Store Clustering
Midterm Exam
7 12 Property Taxes, Public Expenditure, and Local Services, Community Choice, "Capitalization", and Income Segregation (PDF)
13 The Fiscal Incentives for Land Use Regulation
8 14 Public Goods and "Neighborhood" Effects (PDF)

Internalizing External Effects through Government or Contracts
15 Congestion, Transportation Infrastructure and Planning Development
9 16 Units, Households and Tenure Choice (PDF)

1. Demographic Influences
17 Housing Appreciation, Mortgages and the Cost of Owning
10 18 The Operation of Non-residential Markets (PDF)

1. Vacancy, Absorption, and Market Frictions

2. Leasing, Tenure, and Tenant "Synergy"
11 19 Long Term Trends in Space Usage and Demand

Herd Behavior and Development "Games"
20 The Time-series Properties of Housing and Commercial Space Markets (PDF)
12 21 Stock-flow Theory and Real Estate Cycles
22 Expectations, Information, and "Efficient Markets"

The Issue: Can markets be forecast?
13 23 The Determinants of Metropolitan Growth (PDF)

1. Export Demand and Industrial Development

2. Birth Rates, Migration and Wages
24 A Model Analyzing Metropolitan Growth

1. Demand, and Supply Shocks, Real Estate, and the Cost of Living
Final Exam