Real Estate News

On Friday, December 2, 2016 the Real Estate Association (REA) and members of the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate toured 50 West Street, a 191-unit ground-up luxury residential condominium development in Lower Manhattan. 

On Friday November 11th, 2016 the Real Estate Association (REA) and members of the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate toured Flushing Commons, a mixed-use development site with residential condominiums, office space, parking, and an open-air public plaza including outdoor restaurants and shops. 

Searching for palm trees, sandy beaches, and celebrity mansions, the Real Estate students who traveled to Los Angeles from November 7-8 were given a privileged, A-lister’s peek into LA’s diverse and dynamic real estate market, currently in the midst of extraordinary change.

On November 17th, the University of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business hosted the 14th Annual National Real Estate Challenge sponsored by Invesco. Twenty of the top MBA programs participated in the competition. Columbia Business School, represented by Mark Abramowicz ’18, Samuel Fenwick ’18, Anthony Feenick ’17, Daniel Liu ’17, Nicholas Mellis ’17, and Joe Noon ’17, placed 3rd in the competition behind the host university and Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.  

On Friday, November 18th, graduate students from the Real Estate programs at Columbia, MIT, and NYU gathered in Uris Hall for the 5th annual Coming to Terms: Negotiating Real Estate Joint Ventures workshop. The event which is co-sponsored by the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate, the MIT Center for Real Estate, the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and Grosvenor, provided students from each of the different programs the opportunity to spend a full day discussing key issues in a real estate joint-venture (JV) agreement and to engage with seasoned professionals from both the legal and business sides of the real estate industry.  

The Columbia Business School Real Estate Association (REA) is pleased to announce the assistant vice presidents elected for the 2016–17 academic year. The officers, all in the class of 2018, were elected by the REA membership. 

Real Conversations features current MBA students, discussing their experiences in the Real Estate Program at Columbia Business School and beyond…in their own words.   

David M. Sherman ’82, has been appointed co-director of the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate, effective October 2016.

The Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate is pleased to welcome three new alumni to the Real Estate Circle: Austin Khan ’04 and Richard D. Pretsfelder ’94 as Circle Leaders, and Anand Bhatia ’16 as a Circle Associate. 

On Monday, July 11th, 21 members from the Real Estate Association (REA) and the Family Business Club visited Silverstein Properties at the World Trade Center.