Final Grades

I just posted final course letter grades on WebCT. I will post the final exam grades soon but overall the class did well on the final (the average was 87% but I did curve a bit (three questions)).

Have a good holiday break! If you want to get deeper into some of the topics we covered this semester, consider taking Real Estate Investments or Real Estate Finance this Spring (Real Estate Appraisal and Real Estate Development are both offered in the Fall).

Class Feedback on Blog Posts

Based on your feedback, the class ranks the top four blog posts as follows:

Best Post: Lisa Briggs for Barnett Shale: Has Texas Hit the Mother Load? (and you asked me if this would be a good topic at the start of the semester...)

Second Best: Julio Rivas-Aguilar for Empirical Research on International Real Estate Diversification (sorry about the typo on the evaluation sheet Julio!)

Third Best: Fahad Almudhaf for The Vanishing January Effect: Evidence from REITs

Fourth Best: Sanjukta Kar for Subprime Mortgage Meltdown

In general, good work on the blogs this semester. I think we will continue this assignment in future classes.

No Office Hours on Thursday

Just fyi. I will be off-campus this Thursday and will not be able to hold office hours from 2 to 4 PM. As always, I will be checking e-mail.