NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate
TOM G. GEURTS, B.S., M.S., M.S., Ph.D.
Clinical Associate Professor of Real Estate
Tom G. Geurts is currently director of academic affairs for the M.S. in Real Estate and M.S. in Construction Management programs at the NYU Schack Institute.
Geurts’s main research interests are international finance and real estate finance, most notably on the topic of how institutional limitations affect investor behavior. He has published 19 academic articles in peer-reviewed journals, such as the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, the Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management, the Multinational Business Review, the Journal of Real Estate Research, and the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, and a book on public-private partnerships. He has presented at a large number of academic conferences, both national and international, and his research has been supported by a number of grants. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Geurts has an active consulting practice.
Prior his joining the Institute, Geurts taught real estate and finance for three years at California State University in San Bernardino. During the 1999-2000 academic year, Geurts worked in New York City as director of research for the second-largest real estate company in New York City. While in southern California, he also co-developed and taught in the International Finance Program for the Extended Education Department of the University of California in Riverside. From 2000 until 2006, he taught corporate finance and investment analysis at Marist College, on the undergraduate and graduate levels. In addition, each year he teaches one seminar for the Master of Real Estate program at the University of Amsterdam and one for the Technical University of Berlin. He has given guest lectures at a number of other universities, including four overseas.
Geurts earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the Higher Technical College in Zwolle (Netherlands) and master’s degrees in economics and political science from the University of Amsterdam. He holds a Ph.D. in business administration, with an emphasis in real estate finance, from Pennsylvania State University, where he was awarded the Philip H. Sieg Fellowship.
Areas of Expertise:
- Real Estate Issues, Particularly Related to Financing Decisions
- Risk and Portfolio Management Decisions
- International Implications
Recent Publications and Research:
- Tom Geurts has published 19 academic articles in peer-reviewed journals and a book on public-private partnerships.
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