Research Lab News
MIT-SUL Summer Talks
This summer, join the Sustainable Urbanization Lab (MIT-SUL) for a series of “Summer Talks” wherein the Lab’s post-docs, Ph.D., master’s students, and summer fellows will present various working papers. See
Two Postdoc Researchers Hired for MIT-SUL / PDP
The SUL Lab is pleased to welcome incoming postdoctoral associate Seunghoon Lee, who recently gave a presentation to the team about his ongoing research work. Seunghoon is interested in understanding how
Siqi Zheng’s Team Project Awarded Seed Grant
The MIT Portugal Program (MPP2030) awarded Siqi Zheng’s team a 2021-2022 seed grant for their proposed project: “Climate Risk Perception and Its Impacts on Location Attractiveness and Real Estate Asset Value in Portugal:
MIT/CRE Research Receives Four MIT HASS Awards
The Center congratulates four outstanding research projects recently awarded MIT HASS Awards. The MIT HASS Awards are in support of research that shows promise of making a fundamental contribution to
J-WEL Education Innovation Grants Awarded to MIT/CRE
CRE won two J-WEL Grants in Education Innovation Program. MIT J-WEL is “particularly interested in innovations rooted in MIT’s research and practice with the potential for generating high impact on higher education globally.” This
Retail Carbon Footprints: Measuring Impacts from Real Estate and Technology
The retail sector has seen more transformation than any other real estate asset class in recent history, due to advances in technology, innovations in the supply chain and ever-advancing changes
MIT/CRE Launches CRE Research Seminar Series
CRE launched the “CRE Research Seminar” for the Fall 2020 semester, and these events will continue through Spring 2021. The intent is to feature distinguished scholars in the real estate
MIT/CRE Working Paper Series Now on SSRN
The MIT Center for Real Estate is pleased to announce our new working paper series on SSRN. The series will be distributed over several issues each year, and will include the very
Prof. Siqi Zheng Clean Air Research Gains Recognition
The Sustainable Urbanization Lab’s research on the impacts of the pandemic on air pollution “Clean Air as an Experience Good” (joint work by Siqi Zheng, Matthew Kahn and Weizheng Sun)
Distributing Density: Middle-Scale Housing for Sustainable Communities
The organizers of the Boston Housing Innovation Workshop, co-hosted this summer by the Real Estate Innovation Lab, the Boston Society of Architects, the City of Boston’s Housing Innovation Lab, and