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The Ziman Center was established to create and administer UCLA's activities surrounding the topic of real estate.

 
To advance this mandate, the Center has built a community of leading scholars who undertake real estate-related research. The Affiliated Faculty and Fellows join the Center from departments throughout the UCLA campus, including management, economics, law, public policy, urban planning, engineering, architecture and geography, and they generate high-quality, publishable research through the Ziman Center's Working Papers series.
In 2005, the Ziman Center established the Faculty Research Fellows program to facilitate the publication of our faculty's research.
The Ziman Center funds research by faculty throughout UCLA.
Darren Aiello
Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance

Darren Aiello is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the BYU Marriott School of Management and a UCLA Ziman Center Gilbert Program AY23/24 Visiting Scholar at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. His research interests include Real Estate Finance, Securitization, and Empirical Corporate Finance. Prior to starting his Ph.D., Darren spent eight years in various analytical and managerial roles at one of the largest issuers and master servicers of Private Label Mortgage-Backed Securities in the United States.

Darren completed his Ph.D. at UCLA Anderson in the Finance Area. He received an MBA in Finance in 2014, also from UCLA Anderson, and received a BS in Business Administration and a BA in Economics, both from Pepperdine University.


Contact: darren.aiello@anderson.ucla.edu

Lance Bocarsly
Lecturer in Law
UCLA School of Law
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Gonzalo Freixes
Adjunct Professor of Accounting; Associate Dean, Fully Employed MBA Program
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Stuart Gabriel
Distinguished Professor of Finance and Arden Realty Chair
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Andrew David Gross
Lecturer in Affordable Housing Finance and Development

Andrew David Gross, a native Los Angelino, is the former president of Thomas Safran & Associates and was responsible for all developments of the company from 2002 through 2019. Andrew has extensive experience in the development of affordable and market rate communities, including site acquisition, finance, public private partnerships, neighborhood outreach, project design, construction, lease up, property management and asset management. Prior to joining TSA, Andrew worked as an associate at a Los Angeles-based investment bank.

Mr. Gross is a member of the Bel Air Chapter of YPO (Young Presidents' Organization), ULI (Urban Land Institute), Westside Urban Forum, and volunteers for several charitable and political groups. Andrew holds a position on the Board of New Directions for Veterans and is a member of the Ziman Center's Affordable Housing Advisory Council (AHAC). Additionally, Mr. Gross teaches a course on affordable housing development and finance as part of the MBA curriculum at UCLA's Anderson School of Management.

Andrew graduated with honors with a Juris Doctorate and Master of Business Administration (JD/MBA) from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and also graduated with highest distinction honors, Cum Laude, in Economics from the University of California, San Diego. Andrew is a member of the California Bar and is also a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society.


Contact: adgross@ucla.edu

Paul Habibi
Senior Continuing Lecturer of Finance and Real Estate
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Mark Karlan
Continuing Lecturer of Finance and Real Estate
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Gregor Schubert
Gregor Schubert
Assistant Professor of Finance
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M. Kathleen Smalley
Lecturer in Law and Real Estate

Kathleen Smalley, former Of Counsel at Foley & Lardner LLP, has practiced law in a variety of settings related to real estate: as inside general counsel to major developers Trammell Crow Company and Catellus Development Company; as a litigator with a premier trial firm resolving real estate-related disputes; as a transactional lawyer in a leading law firm representing developers, users, and lenders in real estate transactions.

​​​​She has taught Real Estate Transactions for law students at Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, Yale Law School, and UCLA Law School. She has degrees from Harvard Law School (J.D magna cum laude) and Rice University (B.A., Economics, summa cum laude). Ms. Smalley began her legal career as a judicial clerk to Justice Sandra Day O’Connor at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Kirk J. Stark
Professor of Law
UCLA School of Law
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Eric Sussman
Adjunct Professor of Accounting, Finance and Real Estate
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Name Position School
Xudong (Sean) An Assistant Vice President, Supervision, Regulation, and Credit Reserve Bank, Philadelphia
Darren Aiello Assistant Professor of Finance BYU Marriott School of Management
Dana Cuff Professor, Architecture & Urban Design; Director UCLA and cityLAB-UCLA
Stuart A. Gabriel Arden Realty Chair and Distinguished Professor of Finance UCLA Anderson School of Management
Barney Hartman-Glaser Associate Professor of Finance UCLA Anderson School of Management
Edward Kung Assistant Professor of Economics California State University, Northridge
Chandler Lutz Financial Economist, Office of Risk Assessment U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Paul M. Ong Research Professor and Director, UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Gregor Schubert Assistant Professor of Finance UCLA Anderson School of Management
Nitzan Tzur-Ilan Research Economist Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Name Position School
Gary L. Blasi Professor of Law Emeritus UCLA School of Law
Evelyn Blumenberg Professor, Urban Planning; Director of the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
William A.V. Clark Research Professor of Geography UCLA
Katherine L. Chen, MD, PhD Assistant Professor-in-residence Division of General Internal Medicine & Health Services Research, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine; and Health Policy and Management, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
M. Keith Chen Professor of Behavioral Economics and Strategy UCLA Anderson School of Management
Dana Cuff ​Professor, Architecture & Urban Design; Director UCLA and cityLAB-UCLA
Lara Cushing Assistant Professor, Environmental Health Sciences UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Magali Delmas Professor of Strategy; Faculty Director, Center for Impact UCLA Anderson School of Management
Andrea Eisfeldt Professor of Finance UCLA Anderson School of Management
David Eisenman, MD, MSHS Professor David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; and UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Henry L. Friedman Associate Professor of Accounting UCLA Anderson School of Management
Meirav Furth-Matzkin Assistant Professor UCLA School of Law
Stuart A. Gabriel Arden Realty Chair, Distinguished Professor of Finance; Director, UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate UCLA Anderson School of Management
Ashvin Gandhi Assistant Professor UCLA Anderson School of Management
Mark J. Garmaise Professor of Finance UCLA Anderson School of Management
Francois Geerolf Assistant Professor UCLA Department of Economics
Barney Hartman-Glaser Associate Professor UCLA Anderson School of Management
Felipe Goncalves Assistant Professor UCLA Department of Economics
Mark Grinblatt Distinguished Research Professor UCLA Anderson School of Management
Michael Jerrett Professor, Environmental Health Sciences UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Richard J. Jackson, MD Professor Emeritus, Environmental Health Sciences UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Liz Koslov Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Planning; Institute of the Environment and Sustainability UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Shohini Kundu Assistant Professor of Finance UCLA Anderson School of Management
Kathryn M. Leifheit, PhD MSPH Social epidemiologist and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Mike Lens Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy; Associate Faculty Director of the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Michael Manville Associate Professor of Urban Planning UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Adam Millard-Ball Professor of Urban Planning UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Paavo Monkkonen Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy; Director of the Latin American Cities Initiative UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Paul Ong Research Professor and Director of the Center for Neighborhood Knowledge UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Will Rafey Assistant Professor UCLA Department of Economics
Richard Roll Professor Emeritus, Joel Fried Chair in Applied Finance UCLA Anderson School of Management
Richard H. Sander Jesse Dukeminier Professorship in Law UCLA School of Law
Gregor Schubert Assistant Professor of Finance UCLA Anderson School of Management
Donald Shoup Distinguished Research Professor of Urban Planning UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Fernando Torres-Gil Director of the Center for Policy Research on Aging; Professor of Social Welfare and Public Policy UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Clemence Tricaud Assistant Professor of Economics UCLA Anderson School of Management
V. Kelly Turner Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Geography UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Nico Voigtländer Professor of Global Economics and Management UCLA Anderson School of Management
Emily Weisburst Assistant Professor of Public Policy UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Jonathan M. Zasloff Professor of Law UCLA School of Law
Frederick J. Zimmerman, PhD Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management; Co-Director the Center for Health Advancement UCLA Fielding School of Public Health

UCLA Gilbert Program in Real Estate, Finance and Urban Economics

 
The UCLA Ziman Center is pleased to partner with The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation to establish The UCLA Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Program in Real Estate, Finance and Urban Economics.
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Latest Documents

 
UCLA Economic Letter October 2023: The Work-From-Home Equation: How Both Remote and Non-remote Workers Factor Into Housing, Wages and Urban Productivity
UCLA Economic Letter August 2023: Housing Wealth and Overpayment - When Money Moves In
UCLA Economic Letter July 2023: Unaffordable Delays - How the Approval Process Has Worsened L.A.’s Housing Crisis, and How to Fix It
UCLA Economic Letter June 2023: A New Opportunity - The 4% Housing Tax Credit Offers Fresh Ways of Lifting Neighborhoods from Poverty

Faculty Research

 

UCLA Ziman Center Research Lights the Way to Alleviate L.A. Housing Crisis

Stuart Gabriel, Director of the Ziman Center for Real Estate, recommends a methodical streamlining

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Migration — and Home Price Escalation — Happens Along Established Routes

Major cities reliably feed residents to the same smaller markets, and housing booms predictably travel with them

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Equity-Rich Homeowners Overpay for Their Next House

Less diligent as shoppers, such buyers help drive up home prices

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