200 Years of Experience: Rethinking Real Estate’s Future American Real Estate Society Panel Discussion

Norm Miller is an Emeritus Professor at the University of San Diego and the University of Cincinnati, and vice-president of the Hoyt Institute, a think tank of global urban economic scholars and industry research directors. He is a housing, finance, commercial real estate, and capital markets expert. He was head of Analytics and a long-time consultant for CoStar, and developed automated valuation models with Collateral Analytics, now Black Knight/ICE. He started the Journal of Sustainable Real Estate and served as the President of the American Real Estate Society. 

Glenn R. Mueller, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus at the University of Denver, Burns School of Real Estate. He has 50 years of experience in the real estate industry, including 44 years of research. He is internationally known for his Real Estate Market Cycle research, his REIT research, and his public and private market investment strategies and capital markets expertise. He has presented at 48 universities worldwide and taught for 24 years at Harvard. Prior to DU, Mueller was a full professor at Johns Hopkins University and held an endowed chair at Colorado State University.

Michael J. Seiler is the John and Yvonne Whitcomb Professor of Finance & Real Estate at William & Mary and a Schoen Scholar and Visiting Professor at Yale University. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, the University of Cambridge, and the London School of Economics, and a Visiting Professor at MIT, Johns Hopkins University, and the Australian National University. He has published over 200 research studies and books and serves as the co-editor of the Journal of Real Estate Research. He serves as an expert witness and consults in the areas of behavioral and experimental real estate and finance.

Karl-Werner Schulte is Professor Emeritus of Real Estate at the International Real Estate Business School, University of Regensburg. He started his university career as Professor of Investment & Finance at the European Business School and later became the first Professor of Real Estate in Germany and Continental Europe. He served as President of the German, European, and International Real Estate Society and has been appointed ARES Alumnus. His main academic contribution was the development of the Interdisciplinary Approach of Real Estate Education and Research in the tradition of James Graaskamp.

Richard Peiser is the Michael D. Spear Professor of Real Estate Development Emeritus and Research Professor at the Harvard GSD. He founded the university’s highest-level real estate executive program, the Advanced Management Development Program, and directed the real estate program. Prior to Harvard, he founded the Master of Real Estate Development Program and the Lusk Center at USC. He is a trustee of the Urban Land Institute and the author of its all-time best-selling book on real estate development, as well as 11 other books and over 200 papers on new towns, affordable housing, urban sprawl, REITs, and suburban town centers. He has developed homes, apartments, industrial buildings, and resorts, and consults on new town and affordable housing development.