Georgetown University Real Estate Club

01/30/2018

Hi everyone we have a couple exciting events this week, check them out below!

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01/26/2017

Come join the Georgetown University Real Estate Club this spring to tour some of DC's premiere properties with the nations' best real estate companies and network with top professionals in the industry. All you have to do is fill out the registration sheet below by Sunday (January 29) by midnight and join us for our first general body meeting next Wednesday (February 1) at 7:00 pm in MSB 150.

Georgetown University Real Estate Club

10/28/2016

http://www.thehoya.com/new-real-estate-fund-secures-100k-aims-higher/

In partnership with Georgetown University’s Steers Center for Global Real Estate, the Georgetown University Public Real Estate Fund launched this semester and has so far raised $100,000. GUPREF is a student-run investment fund that manages money on behalf of the university’s endowment and invests in...

09/14/2016

We are having our information session this Thursday (9/15) at 6:30 PM in the Lohrfink Auditorium. It will be a brief introduction to the club and some of the events that we hold. The application will be released following the information session. If you are already in the club there is no need to attend. If you cannot attend but would like to receive the application link, please contact [email protected].

Following the information session, Professor Cypher will be giving "The Fundamentals of Real Estate" training session at 7 PM. We will have food following the training session.

05/18/2016

If anyone is looking for some real estate summer reading, the ULI (Urban Land Institute) released a great publication earlier this year that gives an easy-to-understand overview of the industry and trends affecting it. Here is the link:http://uli.org/wp-content/uploads/ULI-Documents/Emerging-Trends-in-Real-Estate-United-States-and-Canada-2016.pdf

05/12/2016

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-condo-boom-is-ending-in-manhattan-1462893798?mod=e2fb

Demand in Manhattan’s super-high-end condo market has dried up amid global economic jitters, just as the market has been flooded with supply.

05/03/2016

http://www.thehoya.com/real-estate-titans-talk-investing/

The Steers Center for Global Real Estate held its annual Real Estate Luminaries Series event April 21, convening industry leaders to discuss the history of the real estate market, its current volatility and the future of investing. The event featured a conversation with Tom Barrack Jr., founder an…

04/26/2016

http://www.wsj.com/articles/in-reit-industry-shift-veteran-investors-lose-clout-1461699750

Asset managers who shaped the world of real-estate investment trusts for years are losing influence as passive index funds attract more money and a wider array of investors pours money into the stocks.

04/25/2016

Interesting article some retail REITs need to be cautious of and take into account.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/department-stores-need-to-cull-hundreds-of-sites-study-says-1461520952

U.S. department-store chains need to close hundreds of locations if they want to regain the productivity they had a decade ago, according to real-estate research firm Green Street Advisors.

04/22/2016

Thank you to everyone who attended the Luminaries event this evening. We hope you all enjoyed it and learned a lot about some of the different facets of the real estate industry!

04/20/2016

https://www.businessreport.com/article/emerging-baton-rouge-commercial-real-estate-firm-quadrupled-size-roughly-18-months

In the roughly 18 months since Ben Graham, Justin Langlois and Steve Legendre joined together to form Sperry Van Ness I Graham, Langlois & Legendre, the commercial real estate firm has quadrupled in size. In the first quarter of this year, the firm saw its gross commission income rise 30% over its G…

04/12/2016

http://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-developers-aim-to-expand-in-canada-1459871887?cb=logged0.11932556424289942

Chinese residential developers are widening their beachheads in Canada as demand for homes grows in part from people of Chinese descent.