Category: Current
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NYU Schack Special Report: REITs Go Big on AI
Commercial Property Executive Article Link AI is no longer a side experiment for REITs – it’s becoming a core advantage. Marc Norman says the technology is now a “differentiator” and a “fundamental driver of value” for commercial real estate, and the latest NYU Schack REIT Symposium showed that the industry…
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US can learn from the “Minha Casa Minha Vida” program, says NYU professor
Metro Quadrado Article Link Brazil may be showing the U.S. how to do affordable housing better. And Marc Norman, head of NYU’s Schack Institute of Real Estate, thinks Washington should be taking notes from Minha Casa Minha Vida. In an interview with Brazilian outlet Metro Quadrado, Norman argues that one…
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Building the Resilient Campus
The University of Buffalo held an international design competition challenging architects, landscape architects, planners, and other allied design professionals to boldly envision the University at Buffalo’s South Campus—a public campus on its way to becoming carbon neutral—as a socio-ecologically integrated landscape that engages the pressing and intertwined challenges of climate…
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The Expanding Housing Crisis: How Middle-Income Families Became the New Face of Affordability Challenges
Keycrew Journal Article Link Marc Norman, Associate Dean at NYU’s Schack Institute of Real Estate, has had a front-row seat to one of the most significant and underreported shifts in American housing: the affordability crisis is no longer just a low-income problem, and he’s been watching the boundaries quietly expand…
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Sunnyside Yard and the Quest for Affordable Housing in New York
The Nation Article Link In a recent feature in The Nation, Marc Norman, Silverstein Chair and Associate Dean at NYU’s Schack Institute of Real Estate, offers a grounding reality check on New York City’s latest wave of housing ambition, reminding us that the most powerful thing a new mayor can…
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Canceled Home Purchases Rise, Reflecting Buyers’ Increased Power
New York Times Article Link Marc Norman, Associate Dean at NYU’s Schack Institute of Real Estate, sees nothing surprising in the sharp rise of home purchase cancellations sweeping across the United States — in fact, he says it makes perfect sense. In a recent New York Times feature, Norman helps…
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The NYU SPS Schack Institute of Real Estate Hosts the 9th Annual Conference on Sustainable Real Estate on February 2, 2026
NYU School of Professional Studies Article Link On February 2, 2026, NYU’s Schack Institute of Real Estate hosted its 9th Annual Conference on Sustainable Real Estate, bringing together industry leaders, policymakers, academics, and students to tackle one of the most pressing questions in the built environment: how do climate, community,…
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Trump Is Moving to Bar Wall Street Firms From Buying Single-Family Homes. Here’s What That Would Mean for Affordability
Time Magazine Article Link Marc Norman, Associate Dean at NYU’s Schack Institute of Real Estate, provides opinions of President Trump’s executive order restricting institutional investors from buying single-family homes, arguing that the policy rests on a misreading of what is actually driving unaffordability. In a recent Time Magazine feature, Norman…
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Commercial Real Estate’s Hopes and Fears about Mamdani’s New York: “A Lot of Virtue Signalling Going On”
The Real Deal Article Link New York’s commercial real estate elite gathered at NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate’s Capital Markets Conference in December 2025 with one question dominating the room: what does Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani mean for the city’s property market? The verdict was cautiously optimistic but laced with…
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CRE Braces for Increased Costs From Fed Changes: NYU Schack Panelists
Commercial Observer Article Link Marc Norman, Associate Dean at NYU’s Schack Institute of Real Estate, co-hosted the Institute’s 58th Annual Capital Markets Conference, an event that stands as a testament to the platform he has built, one that regularly draws Wall Street’s most influential voices to wrestle with the questions…