Dr. Richard B. Peiser
Professor of Real Estate Development
Graduate School of Design Department of Urban Planning & Design, Harvard
University
Richard Peiser has been the Michael D. Spear professor of Real Estate Development
at the Graduate School of Design since 1998. His is also director of the university-wide
Real Estate Academic Initiative created in 2003.
He was previously on the faculty at the University
of Southern California (1986-1998) as associate professor
of urban planning and development, director of the
Lusk Center for Real Estate Development, and Academic
Director of the Master of Real Estate Development
Program that he founded in 1986.
Peiser's primary research has focused on developing
an understanding of the response of real estate developers
to the market place and to the institutional environment
in which they operate, particularly in the areas
of urban redevelopment, affordable housing, and suburban
sprawl. Current research projects focus on non-performing
loans, suburban redevelopment, and new towns. A planner
and entrepreneur-developer, as well as an expert
in real estate finance, he has also demonstrated
an interest in spatial and design issues as well
as in the economics of land development.
He has been active in the Urban Land Institute,
where he is now a Trustee, and of which he has authored
numerous publications on his policy-oriented research.
In addition to teaching basic courses in development
finance, he will also be initiating advanced and
postprofessional training programs in this area at
the GSD. Peiser received a BA from Yale University,
an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a PhD from
the University of Cambridge.
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