Albert Saiz

About

Albert Saiz is the Daniel Rose Professor of Urban Economics & Real Estate at the MIT Center for Real Estate. He serves as the Faculty Director of the Urban Economics Lab. His professional role is focused on urban economics and real estate, contributing to the academic and research environment at MIT through his leadership in the Urban Economics Lab. The page lists him among the faculty members, highlighting his professorship and faculty directorship roles, indicating his involvement in both teaching and research activities related to urban economics and real estate.

Research topics

• Business
• Economics
• Data Mining
• Finance
• Computer Science
• Economic growth
• Market economy
• Macroeconomics
• Financial system
• Economic policy

Selected publications

• Beautiful city: Leisure amenities and urban growth

  Journal of Regional Science · 2019-04-01 · 142 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding

  Abstract Modern urban economic theory and policymakers are coming to see the provision of consumer‐leisure amenities as a way to attract population, especially the highly skilled and their employers. However, past studies have arguably only provided indirect evidence of the importance of leisure amenities for urban development. In this paper, we propose and validate the number of tourist trips and the number of crowdsourced picturesque locations as measures of consumer revealed preferences for l…

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• Bricks, mortar, and proptech

  Journal of Property Investment and Finance · 2020 · 51 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  Purpose Digital and information technologies (IT) are becoming silently pervasive in old-fashioned real estate markets. This paper focuses on three important avenues for the diffusion of IT in commercial real estate: online brokerage and sales, the commoditization of space and Fintech in mortgage and equity funding. We describe the main new markets and products created by this IT revolution. The focus is on the pioneering US market, with some attention devoted to the specific firms and instituti…

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• Urban Big Data: City Management and Real Estate Markets

  Springer optimization and its applications · 2022 · 47 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
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• Immigrant locations and native residential preferences: Emerging ghettos or new communities?

  Journal of Urban Economics · 2019-06-07 · 31 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding
  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• Introduction to the special issue “China's urbanization and housing market”

  Journal of Housing Economics · 2016-07-14 · 26 citations

  articleSenior authorCorresponding
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Frequent coauthors

• Edward L. Glaeser

  National Bureau of Economic Research

  27 shared

• Joseph Gyourko

  26 shared

• Pablo Casas‐Arce

  Arizona State University

  6 shared

• Uri Simonsohn

  University of Pennsylvania

  4 shared

• Arianna Salazar Miranda

  4 shared

• Luyao Wang

  Wuhan University

  4 shared

• Ada Ferrer‐i‐Carbonell

  3 shared

• Jed Kolko

  3 shared

Labs

• Albert Saiz LabPI

Education

• Ph.D., Urban Economics and Real Estate

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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