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Real Estate Economics OpenCourseWare: MIT's Free Undergraduate Class on the Economics of Real Estate

Published Feb 06, 2009

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Every economist would love to have a method that could accurately forecast, on a consistent basis, the movement of supply and demand within markets. 'Real Estate Economics,' a free OpenCourseWare from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, applies recent economic research to examine such movement in the real estate markets. MIT's Sloan School of Management offers this self-study course.

Real Estate Economics: Course Specifics

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Real Estate Economics: Course Description

This course considers how studying changes in economic activity or trends in demographics may shed light on the behavior of the real estate market. Students theorize about the factors influencing land markets and the choice of location. Other topics covered include urban development, gentrification, rent prices, commercial center clustering and real estate policy. Throughout the course, students analyze whether or not the growth and decline of real estate markets can be predicted. Professor William Wheaton, who taught 'Real Estate Economics' on the MIT campus, provides OpenCourseWare students with notes from his lectures. The recommended textbook for this course, Urban Economics and Real Estate Markets, was co-authored by Professor Wheaton and Denise DiPasquale. Although the equivalent on-campus course is part of the Bachelor of Science in Management program at MIT, graduate students may also benefit from the content of this OpenCourseWare. Some of the downloadable problem sets require Excel software to open the files.

This OpenCourseWare includes lecture notes, problem set assignments and a structured list of readings from both the textbook and other sources. If you would like to take this course, visit the economics of real estate course page.

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