Research Briefs

Speaker Series: Jeffrey A. Dritley, Founder and Managing Partner, Kearny Real Estate Company

Submitted by Sonia Savoulian on Mon, 08/11/2014 - 12:54

Speakers Series is a forum for students to interact with and learn from real estate professionals and alumni. Lunch will be held in the Lewis Hall courtyard from 12:00 to 12:20 pm. The speaker presentation will be held in Lewis Hall room 101, starting at approximately 12:30 pm. There is no charge for MRED students and GREA members to attend. A $5 fee is charged to all others.

Los Angeles Times: San Pedro Project Illustrates a Cause of Limited Housing Affordability

Submitted by hoyt on Thu, 08/07/2014 - 16:05

At a groundbreaking ceremony in May, neighborhood activists and local government officials celebrated Ponte Vista, a development of 676 homes in San Pedro.

But officials also spoke of the decade it took to get construction started, amid neighborhood protests over the size and style of the homes and the traffic they would bring. Original plans called for a multifamily development with three times as many homes, with many more affordable options.

Now, with plans modified to include 208 single-family homes, prices will range from about $400,000 to $1.1 million.

Speaker Series: Gino Canori, Executive Vice President, Related California

Submitted by Sonia Savoulian on Wed, 08/06/2014 - 12:35

Speakers Series is a forum for students to interact with and learn from real estate professionals and alumni. Lunch will be held in the Lewis Hall courtyard from 12:00 to 12:20 pm. The speaker presentation will be held in Lewis Hall room 101, starting at approximately 12:30 pm. There is no charge for MRED students and GREA members to attend. A $5 fee is charged to all others.

Speaker Series: Bert Selva, President and Chief Executive Officer, Shea Homes

Submitted by Sonia Savoulian on Tue, 08/05/2014 - 13:23

Speakers Series is a forum for students to interact with and learn from real estate professionals and alumni. Lunch will be held in the Lewis Hall courtyard from 12:00 to 12:20 pm. The speaker presentation will be held in Lewis Hall room 101, starting at approximately 12:30 pm. There is no charge for MRED students and GREA members to attend. A $5 fee is charged to all others.

Speaker Series: Brett Ellsworth, President, Contact Development Corporation

Submitted by Sonia Savoulian on Tue, 08/05/2014 - 12:52

Speakers Series is a forum for students to interact with and learn from real estate professionals and alumni. Lunch will be held in the Lewis Hall courtyard from 12:00 to 12:20 pm. The speaker presentation will be held in Lewis Hall room 101, starting at approximately 12:30 pm. There is no charge for MRED students and GREA members to attend. A $5 fee is charged to all others.

Speaker Series: Stan Ross, Chairman of the Board, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate

Submitted by Sonia Savoulian on Tue, 08/05/2014 - 12:47

Speakers Series is a forum for students to interact with and learn from real estate professionals and alumni. Lunch will be held in the Lewis Hall courtyard from 12:00 to 12:20 pm. The speaker presentation will be held in Lewis Hall room 101, starting at approximately 12:30 pm. There is no charge for MRED students and GREA members to attend. A $5 fee is charged to all others.

Marketplace Tech: What the Zillow-Trulia deal means for real estate

Submitted by hoyt on Tue, 07/29/2014 - 11:24

Today came the biggest deal yet: Zillow said it agreed to buy rival Trulia for about $3.5 billion. The pair will create the proverbial 800-pound gorilla for online real estate. Part of the reason for the merger-mania is that when it comes to online real estate, bigger is pretty much always better.

The real estate market is recovering slowly, but the online real estate space is booming.

NAIOP USC vs UCLA Real Estate Challenge

Submitted by Sonia Savoulian on Tue, 07/22/2014 - 16:53

NAIOP SoCal presents its annual USC vs. UCLA Real Estate Challenge on November 20 at UCLA’s Covel Commons. Hear from the best and brightest from the Ziman Center at UCLA’s Anderson School of Business and the Lusk Center at USC’s Marshall School of Business and Price School of Public Policy as graduate student teams each present their unique response to a challenging Southern California real estate opportunity.