Teaching And Research Interests In Real Estate

Abstract

This paper presents the findings of an investigation aimed at determining teaching and research interests of U.S. finance faculty regarding the academic discipline of real estate.  The paper focuses on two groups of finance faculty from six academic years spanning the 1994-2005 period.  While one group consists of an exhaustive roster of titled professors of finance as per the Hasselback directories, the other consists of randomly selected samples of finance educators from over 800 U.S. colleges and universities.  On average, about 1 in 14 titled professors and 1 and 13 randomly selected finance professors had noted real estate as an area of teaching interest.  Approximately 5 percent of all reported teaching interests were in real estate for both groups of faculty.  The study also reveals that about 1 in 11 titled professors and 1 in 12 sampled faculty had an interest in conducting research in the real estate field.  Among the randomly selected finance faculty who wanted to teach or perform research in real estate, less than 20 percent were assistant professors, 30 percent were associate professors and more than 40 percent were full professors.