The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s [MIT] Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the MIT Center for Real Estate (CRE), both located in MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P), seek applicants for a tenure-track faculty position in: Real Estate Finance and Sustainability.

With a faculty appointment based in the Department of Urban Studies & Planning (DUSP), the MIT Center for Real Estate is seeking to appoint a full-time, tenure-track faculty member, at the rank of assistant professor or associate professor (pre-tenure), to teach and conduct research in real estate finance, economics, sustainability and related fields. The ideal candidate will have conducted research in one or more areas of the real estate field. The candidate should have a scholarly sensibility to engage in team teaching and team research with scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds including economics and finance, urban planning and design, engineering, technology and innovation, business and management, and law. The person hired will be expected to teach master degree students, as well as undergraduate and PhD students.

Three substantive areas of research and teaching expertise of particular interest to CRE include:

• Interdisciplinary approaches to incorporate environmental sustainability and social justice into the traditional real estate finance and economics framework.
• Real estate finance and investment with a particular interest in commercial property and/or the real estate development process;
• Urban and real estate economics with a particular strength at the intersection of real estate space and capital markets.