Welcome to Steve Malpezzi's Real Estate and Urban Development Viewpoint

 

About me, about this blog

I'm Professor Emeritus of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics, late of the James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate in the Wisconsin School of Business, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

This blog focuses on cities, real estate markets (especially housing, but we'll discuss nonresidential real estate too!), economic development, data analysis and presentation, environmental issues, and a host of related subjects.  Business and public policy issues are a big part of the discussion.  I'm an economist by training, but I've got a little political science background too, and in fact I'll squeeze in a little psychology, geography, and other social sciences from time to time.

I'm starting this blog up as I begin the next phase of my career.  As an Emeritus, I've retired from the day-to-day activities of the University (no more committee meetings!), but I'm far from quitting!

This is not my first foray into blogging.  Along with a number of Graaskamp Center colleagues, several years ago I was a frequent contributor to Wisconsin Real Estate Viewpoint.  That blog has been inactive for a while, for reasons that are totally uninteresting to most readers; though I think there are some interesting posts that still repay reading today.  From time to time I'll point a few of those out, refresh some others.  But mostly, we'll be very forward looking.

So, for now, welcome!

SM