Facilities and Real Estate

Susan Wachter of the Wharton School says that Blackstone’s limit on withdrawals and Wells Fargo’s mass cutting of employees are realistic pullback responses to overall economic weakness and rising interest rates.

PIK Professor Lance Freeman discusses the forces that first-time home buyers must fight against when it comes to gentrification.

An analysis by Benjamin Keys of the Wharton School and colleagues found that Florida home sales declined in areas less than six feet above sea level bur rose on less-vulnerable coastal land.

Denita Henderson discusses the $365 million life sciences research, development, and manufacturing facility she will oversee in her new role as managing director of Pennovation Works.

A study by Joseph Gyourko of the Wharton School and colleagues found that land values in the San Francisco metropolitan area were 10 times the expected 20% of a well-functioning market.

Benjamin Keys of the Wharton School describes the varied forms that a post-insurance housing market could take in Florida.

Penn Carey Law has said that it will remove the name of former U.S. Supreme Court chief justice Roger Brooke Taney from one of its buildings. Taney wrote the 1857 majority opinion that upheld slavery.

Joseph Gyourko of the Wharton School says that local communities have gotten much better at restricting unwanted development in the last 30 to 40 years.

An in-depth examination looks at the solution that might have put a stop to the UC Townhomes housing crisis, with a glimpse at what President Liz Magill and her office are doing to help.