Course Name

Real Estate Economics

Collection
Free

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About

Suburban community filled with new houses.

New homes are quickly replacing farmland in this suburb west of Des Moines, Iowa. (Image courtesy of Lynn Betts, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.)

Instructor(s)

Prof. William Wheaton

MIT Course Number

11.433J / 15.021J

As Taught In

Fall 2008

Level

Graduate

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Course Features

Course Description

This course, offered by the MIT Center for Real Estate, focuses on developing an understanding of the macroeconomic factors that shape and influence markets for real property. We will develop the theory of land markets and locational choice. The material covered includes studies of changing economic activities, dem