I spotted this exceptionally well-made gate not far from home. The oak wood has been hewn, not sawn, giving strength and elegant curves. Connections made in wood, just the hinges are metal. This must have been irrationally expensive to build. Beautiful.
Not ideal from a building maintenance point of view… but beautiful. A gutter has been leaking for years and created a truly ‘green’ building on Silver Street. Click for video.
The Department of Land Economy is searching for one more Assistant Professor in Real Estate Finance. Here my thoughts on why this might be an attractive opportunity for an early-career real estate scholar.
New paper by Matthijs Korevaar explores the links between financial markets and real estate in 18th-century Amsterdam
An update from the garden: Tulips tulips tulips
Personal news: I have been elected Grosvenor Professor of Real Estate Finance at the University of Cambridge
Etchings by Franz Xaver Rektorzik, printed by August Potuczek
How do ML-models arrive at their predictions? Do they do what we hope they do—or are corners cut?. New paper out at Real Estate Economics
Staying in touch: A sporadic email with updates
Paper out: This paper develops a new approach to estimate the value of urban land and indirectly tests land residual assumptions. Bonus: Value surfaces estimated with a spatial ANN.
