William C. Wheaton is a professor at MIT’s Center for Real Estate (MIT/CRE), as well as Professor Emeritus in MIT's Department of Economics. He was influential in helping establish the MIT/CRE and launching our MSRED program in 1983; he served as our Academic Director from 1992-2003.
Professor Albert Saiz is the Daniel Rose Associate Professor of Urban Economics and Real Estate, and formerly Director of the MIT Center for Real Estate (2014–2018). Professor Saiz now serves as the Director of MIT’s Urban Economics Lab, which conducts research on real estate economics, urban economics, housing markets, local public finance, zoning regulations, global real estate, and demographic trends affecting urban and real estate development worldwide.
Robert M. White, Jr., CRE, FRICS, President of Real Capital Analytics Inc., founded the company in 2000 to bring greater transparency to the investment markets by providing real-time data of capital flows and prices of commercial properties. He is a noted authority on the real estate capital markets who is frequently cited in the press and has authored numerous articles for industry publications and the firm’s own Capital Trends publications.
Professor Manish Srivastava is a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is also a full-time clinical professor of real estate finance & investment and the former academic chair and real estate finance program chair of New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate.
Mike Acton, CFA, is a Managing Director and Head of Research at AEW. He works closely with the Fund’s investment management team in the development of the Fund’s investment strategy and criteria. The resources of AEW Research are an integral part of AEW’s investment process and Mr. Acton works closely with senior professional in all areas of the firm to develop investment strategies that match clients’ risk/reward objectives with market opportunities.
Professor David Geltner has been at MIT since 2002 where he currently is Professor of Real Estate Finance in the Department of Urban Studies & Planning. He is the lead author of the most widely-cited real estate investments textbook, “Commercial Real Estate Analysis & Investments,” now in its third edition.
Dr. Walter Torous is a senior lecturer holding a joint appointment in the Center for Real Estate’s MSRED Program, as well as in the Sloan School of Management. As one of the nation’s leading scholars and researchers in real estate finance, Torous teaches a graduate course in Securitization.
Tod McGrath is a Lecturer at the Center for Real Estate and a Vice President of Finance at Boston Properties. McGrath teaches introductory and advanced real estate finance courses for MIT’s Masters in Real Estate Development and the Center for Real Estate’s Professional Development Institute. He also lectures on the topic of negotiating development-phase and operating phase agreements on real estate ventures.
