Real Estate Outlook from the McCombs School's Real Estate Center
Real Estate Students from the McCombs School of Business Undergraduate and Graduate Real Estate Societies will visit San Antonio on March 23 to examine the Hotel Contessa and Broadway project and visit various Real Estate Companies.
The Real Estate Finance and Investment Center at the McCombs School will then host a reception at La Gloria for UT affiliates in Real Estate. For more information on the reception, please email Christina Griego.
Real Estate professionals will get together to discuss leadership and ethics based on their own past experiences and give advice to our students.
The forum is made up of Michael Dardick of Granite Properties, Steve Feinberg of Cerberus Capital Management, Mark Gibson of HFF, Steve LeBlanc of TRS, and Sam Mitts of USAA Real Estate Company.
Corporate executives are often accused of earning ungodly amounts of money, but new evidence suggests their compensation packages have qualities similar to those offered to church leaders, albeit on a much larger scale.
Jay Hartzell, chair of the McCombs Department of Finance, researches the relationship between performance and compensation of the clergy. In his studies, he has examined performance-based incentives for pastors and the importance of a pastor’s talent in determining the success of an individual church. In each case, he identified parallels to the corporate world. Read full article
Article from the Daily Texan…
Real estate graduate students from 16 universities across the country competed for cash prizes and top honors at the McCombs School of Business’ 10th annual Real Estate Challenge this week.
This year’s challenge attracted some of the most distinguished real estate students from programs across the nation, including the winners from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and attracted leading corporate sponsors. Glenn Lowenstein, a partner at the Lionstone Group real estate firm, said his firm sponsors the competition because the partners really believe in the Real Estate Finance and Investment Center at UT and want to offer graduate students a real-life experience. Read full article
NEW YORK, Nov. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — J.P. Morgan JPM +0.33% is pleased to announce its sponsorship of the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business 2011 National Real Estate Challenge on November 9-10, 2011, a prominent graduate-level real estate competition that promotes excellence in real estate investment analysis. Read full story
The Graduate Real Estate Society traveled to Dallas on Friday, October 21 to visit various real estate companies. Special thanks to HFF, Lincoln Property, Invesco Real Estate, and JP Morgan for taking time with the students.
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Panelists said more rough weather is ahead for the commercial real estate market.
“We’re in about the second inning” of a massive delivering of a sector that overindulged on debt,” Taylor said.
For investors, there is an opportunity to “capitalize on distress,” said Bret Wilkerson, managing director of Hawkeye Partners, a real estate private equity firm that works with large institutional investors.
In the U.S., owners of some high-quality properties are “starved for capital,” and don’t have the resources to pay for tenant improvements or leasing commissions.
That creates an opening for investors to do recapitalizations and rescues.
In Asia, a future hot area will be development focused on the growing middle class in China and India, such as business hotels and retail outlet malls, said Grant Kelley, managing director and head of Asia for Apollo Global Real Estate.
Five years from now, he said, “That’s where the action will be.”
Colony Capital’s CEO Tom Barrack came to UT Tuesday to speak to over 100 McCombs students about investing in a volatile market and about tips for succeeding in business and in life.
The Alternative Investment Conference is a unique event which is designed to facilitate interaction between alternative investment managers, investors, faculty and students. The conference will feature a keynote speaker and four panel discussions addressing issues relating to Private Equity, Natural Resource Investments, Hedge Fund and Real Estate investments. It will also provide opportunities for informal discussions and networking among conference attendees. Hosted by: McCombs School of Business’ Centers: AIM Investment Center, Energy Management and Innovation Center, Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst Center for Private Equity, and the Real Estate Finance and Investment Center. Sponsored by: Apollo Global Management
Collectively. It’s a word used frequently by Mark Gibson when discussing the growth of Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, one of the largest and most successful capital markets companies in the country. 
Joseph Cahoon, MBA ’05, is a lecturer in real estate finance and is Managing Director of the McCombs School’s Real Estate Finance and Investment Center (REFIC), which combines academic research, real-world networking and undergraduate and graduate real estate education. 
The Center's purpose is to support curriculum development in real estate at the university as well as to support faculty research and faculty development in the department. The Center is the focal point for the creation of a nationally recognized real estate program.
Jay Hartzell
Executive Director
Joseph Cahoon Managing Director
