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 Nothing is more exciting than the beginning of another academic year, with a new class of students joining returning students for classroom and field studies in real estate and finance. We at the Center for Real Estate and Finance (CREF) look forward to enhancing the students’ learning about these key aspects of the hospitality industry throughout this upcoming busy and exciting fall semester...see more.
Broken Hotel Management Contracts Can, and Do, End Up in Court
 A report from the Center for Real Estate and Finance explains how courts calculate the damages that result when a hotel management agreement is terminated without the manager's consent. The report, "Calculating Damage Awards in Hotel Management Agreement Terminations," by Jan A. deRoos and Scott D. Berman, is available at no charge...full press release.
New Mortgage Proposed to Help Homeowners and Re-energize the U.S. Housing Market
CREF Director Daniel Quan proposes a new mortgage contract that will not only encourage a homeowner’s desire to accumulate equity, thus leading to a more stable housing market, but will also provide a boost to the economy. He argues that such benefits can easily be achieved at very little cost to the government....see more.
Minor in Real Estate
The Undergraduate Real Estate Minor continues to grow in popularity at Cornell. We anticipate over 350 students will enroll in the minor in academic year 2014-2015 with more than 150 students graduating with the minor...see more.
Andrey D. Ukhov is an assistant professor of finance in the School of Hotel Administration. Professor Ukhov is an expert on a wide range of investments, including preferred stocks, warrants, derivative securities, and convertibles....see more.
Real Estate Club Offers Practical Skills Training and Opportunities
The Cornell Real Estate Club (CREC) is building a name for itself by becoming a link to industry, facilitating co-curricular education, and increasing student engagement in the field. CREC has an exciting schedule of activities, workshops and treks on tap for this year...see more.
Real Estate Minor Alumni of Cornell
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Real Estate Alumni Continue their Career Training
The Real Estate Minor Alumni of Cornell (REMAC), Cornell’s alumni real estate network, continues to offer its members a diverse array of events. REMAC recently sponsored a roundtable chat between Sush Torgalkar ’99, COO of Westbrook Partners, and 15 club members...see more.
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Scheduled for October 12 through 14, the Cornell Hospitality Research Summit 2014 focuses specifically on creating new knowledge on the spot...see more.
Career Services Real Estate Career Fair
 Career Management in the SHA Office of Student Services and the CREF will welcome approximately 30 companies to campus for the 7th annual Real Estate Career Day on September 30. Close to 300 students are expected to attend and participate in about 200 interviews...see more.
32nd Annual Cornell Real Estate Conference
 Highlighted
by what will certainly be an engaging fireside chat between David M.
Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of The Carlyle Group, and Wall Street Journal
reporter Mike Spector on Thursday evening, the conference includes
speakers who are thoughtful, forward-thinking and inspiring leaders in
the real estate industry...see more.
CREF Welcomes Prominent Hedge Fund Manager to Campus
 Daniel Lewis of Orange Capital, LLC. is the first to speak in the Real Estate Investments Speaker Series which will welcome a new industry leader in investments each semester. Mr. Lewis is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Orange Capital. The CREF will host a breakfast session for students and faculty with Mr. Lewis on Thursday, October 23...see more.
Sixth Annual Cornell International Real Estate Case Competition
 The sixth annual Cornell International Real Estate Case Competition (CIRECC), set for November 4, 2014 in New York City, will feature a record field—with student teams from seventeen universities on four continents competing for a share of over $22,000 in prize money. Now in its sixth year, the case competition gives teams of six students just five days to prepare an analysis of an actual real estate transaction, which is not revealed until the time of the competition...see more.
CREF Open House
 In the afternoon on September 5, we welcomed nearly 60 students to the CREF suite in Statler Hall for the first ever CREF Open House. Following a Freshman Orientation session, during which each of the four Center and Institute Directors spoke about their respective organizations, the students dispersed throughout the building to learn more about their selected Center or Institute...see more.
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Featured Industry Partners
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Established in 2009, the Center for Real Estate and Finance provides a platform for educating students, creating new knowledge through research activities, and exchanging information about real estate with a broad set of audiences. CREF is at the forefront of research in all areas of commercial real estate, from the study of the behavior of real estate assets in investment portfolios to an understanding of real estate capital markets to the science of hedging real estate risk. To learn more about CREF, visit www.cref.cornell.edu.
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