October 2020 Webinar with Tsur Somerville, PhD, UBC + Post Webinar Mingler

October 2020 Webinar + Post Webinar Mingler

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Topic

Impact of COVID on Real Estate

Guest Speaker

Tsur Somerville, PhD
Senior Fellow, UBC Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate
Associate Professor & Real Estate Foundation of BC Professor

Dr. Tsur Somerville is an associate professor and holder of the Real Estate Foundation Professorship in Real Estate Finance at the Sauder School of Business at UBC.  He served for 15 years as the Director of the UBC Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate, where he is now a Senior Fellow. His research on housing market policies, mortgage and real estate finance, and housing affordability has been published in the leading academic journals in urban and real estate economics. In addition to his academic research, Dr. Somerville has contributed through commentary, lectures, research and writing to the public discourse on how immigration, capital flows, money laundering, and government policies affect housing affordability. Dr. Somerville has served on the editorial boards of the leading journals in urban and real estate economics and has served as an officer of several academic organizations in the field. Dr. Somerville received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University and his BA in Economics and East Asian Studies from the Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel).  He has been at UBC since 1993.

Virtual Platform Details

Link(s) to be provided prior to the event to those who register.

Tuesday, October 20th, 2020

12:00 p.m. Webinar

1:00 to ~1:30 p.m. Post Webinar Mingler 

(Separate login to be provided)

Sign into 2 Virtual Rooms for additional networking after the Guest Speakers presentation.  

Cost

Free to MIABC Members