The Real Estate Center kicked off the 2018/19 academic year at the Annual Fall Reception on Tuesday, September 4th.  In keeping with tradition, Charlie Wurtzebach, Center Director and Department Chairman, announced the recipients of this year's academic, travel, and external scholarship awards. 

In all there were 13 different scholarship categories. In total, the Center awarded $86,967 in academic scholarships to 21 real estate students. An additional five students were awarded to cover travel expenses for attending real estate conferences across the country including ICSC, PREA and ULI. Furthermore, an additional seven students were awarded $54,000 in external scholarships. Overall, our students were awarded a total of over $140,000 in academic scholarships.

A special thanks to the real estate community and all of the donors who provided funding for the scholarships and congratulations to the following students for winning these prestigious awards:

The Real Estate Center's 2018 Annual Report has recently been published. The report can be found at the following link:

Thursday, September 27, 2018

Breakfast 7:45 a.m. Program 8:15 - 10:00 a.m.

 

Maggiano's Little Italy • 111 W. Grand Ave., Chicago

Co-Chairman:   E. James Keledjian , Chairman, REIA and Principal, Pathway to Living, LLC

Co-Chairman:  Charles Wurtzebach, Chairman, Department of Real Estate, The Real Estate Center at DePaul University

Ideally, we would like our panelists to discuss their views of the results of the Real Estate Center’s Chicago Mid-Year 2018 Market Survey/Perspectives report and the specific impact of real estate taxes, interest rate trends, and trade wars on real estate investment in the coming 6 -12 months. While the Survey is Chicago focused, the discussion need not be as many of these issues affect other real estate markets

Panelists:    

James D. Shilling , Michael J. Horne Chair, Real Estate Studies, DePaul University



Professor Jim Shilling will give a 10 minute presentation followed by a panel discussion with 3 panelists including Jim. Wurtzebach will moderate the panel. Jim’s presentation will use the survey as a base, but not be a regurgitation of the survey. We will provide copies of the survey to the attendees.  

Elizabeth L. Gracie , Member, O’Keefe Lyons & Hynes LLC

We would see your focus to highlight Cook County and Chicago real estate taxes .

Michael Episcope , Principal and Co-Founder, Origin Investments

Focus on the specific impact of real estate taxes, interest rate trends, and trade wars on real estate investment in the coming 6 -12 months

Marcus Hamacher , Senior Vice President, Ziegler Capital Investments

We would see your focus to highlight interest rate trends and their likely impact on real estate investing.

 

Weitzman Scholarship:

Supported by DePaul University & Weitzman Foundation

Presented by:

Howard Weitzman, Arden Weitzman & Howard Powers, Weitzman Realty

REIA Member – $35 • Non-Member – $55

Student – $20

After 9/24/18 REIA Member $45 – Non-Member $65 – Student $30

Valet Parking Available

 

Click here to register online!

  

Reservations and cancellations must be made by Monday, September 24, 2018 for early-bird pricing. Walk-ins & reservations received after September 24, 2018 will incur a $10 surcharge.