| David
Geltner
Professor of Real Estate Finance and
Engineering Systems
Professor David Geltner is the
Director of Research for the MIT
Center for Real Estate, as well as the George Macomber
Professor and Professor of Real Estate Finance in DUSP.
Professor Geltner served as Director of the MIT/CRE 2003-08,
in which position he was responsible for the overall planning
and management of the Center, and headed MIT’s Master
of Science in Real Estate Development (MSRED) program. His
research has focused on real estate investment performance
measurement and the related areas of asset valuation and
private asset market functioning, fields in which he has
published widely in academic and trade journals. Professor
Geltner is co-author of a pioneering graduate textbook in
“Commercial Real Estate Analysis & Investments,”
and is a former co-editor of “Real Estate Economics,”
the leading academic journal in the real estate field. At
the MIT/CRE Geltner led research to develop new types of
commercial real estate price indexes. Current research interests
include interdisciplinary study of engineering systems applications
to real estate and infrastructure development. Most recently,
Geltner has been working closely with ESD’s Professor
Richard de Neufville on a new joint ESD/DUSP course.
Dr. Geltner received his PhD
in 1989 from the MIT Department of Civil & Environmental
Engineering in the field of infrastructure finance and economics.
He also has degrees in urban studies from Carnegie-Mellon
University and the University of Michigan.
Updated January 2009
News and announcements:
David
Geltner quoted in Financial Times article about US office
prices ( August 19, 2009)
David
Geltner quoted in article about commercial real estate
(Boston Business Journal - August 4,
2009)
David
Geltner quoted in New York Times article on the effect of
the real estate market on value of skyscrapers (The
New York Times - May 20, 2009)
David
Geltner and MIT commercial property index (CNBC - May
12, 2009)
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