Dr. Elaine Worzala

Dr. Elaine Worzala is the Director of the Center for Real Estate Development and a Professor of Real Estate in the College of Architecture Arts and Humanities at Clemson University. Before joining Clemson University, she was the a Professor and the Director of the Accelerated Masters of Science in Real Estate in the Edward St. John Department of Real Estate at the Carey Business School within Johns Hopkins University. She has also served as the MSRE Director and the Research Director at the Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate at the University of San Diego and she began her academic career in the Finance Department at Colorado State University. She has also been a visiting professor with the Real Estate Center at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Worzala has taught numerous different real estate courses including introductory real estate, real estate valuations, real estate feasibility, real estate finance and investments and a graduate level real estate investments case course. In addition, she was the interim Assistant Provost for USD in the 2004/05 academic year. Read full bio >    Curriculum Vitae >  

Recent Work

Graduate Real Estate Programs: An Analysis of the Past and Present and Trends for the Future
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An exploration of the risk and return spectrum for institutional investors in the seniors living and long term care property sector
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Bringing the Outside In: The Coalescence of Industry and Academia
in Real Estate Education
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Complete list of refereed publications and book chapters completed within the last five years

Books and Monographs

2003    CF Sirmans and E. Worzala, Editors, Essays in Honor of William N. Kinnard Jr.,       Research in Real Estate Monograph Series, Kluwere Academic Publishers, Nowell, MA
http://www.aresnet.org/monographs/Vol9.pdf. 
Full listing at:  http://www.aresnet.org/Monographs.htm

2000    J. DeLisle and E. Worzala, Editors, Essays in Honor of James A Graaskamp: Ten Years After, Research in Real Estate Monograph Series, Kluwere Academic Publishers, Nowell, MA. http://www.aresnet.org/monographs/Vol6.pdf
Full listing at:  http://www.aresnet.org/Monographs.htm

Refereed Publications and Book Chapters completed in the last five years (others available upon request)

2008    “Researchers establish risk premiums for senior housing/healthcare investments”,  Multifamily Trends, forthcoming 2008. [pdf] 

2008    RERI Executive Summary Series, “An exploration of the risk and return spectrum for institutional investors in the seniors living and long term care property sector”.  [pdf]

2007    Olga Kaganova and James McKellar, “Managing Government Property Assets”,a book review by Elaine M. Worzala, Journal of Real Estate Literature, 15 (2): 321-322. 
http://cbeweb-1.fullerton.edu/finance/jrel/papers/pdf/past/2007vol15n2/09.319_322.pdf

2006    "An international comparative study of the pension plan community and real estate investments", PREA Quarterly, Fall:  72-77. [pdf] 

2006    Worzala, Elaine, CF Sirmans, Colin Lizieri, Graeme Newell, Joseph Ooi, Karl Werner Schulte and Art Hordvicj, “An International Comparative Study of the Pension Plan Community and Real Estate Investments”.  Published as a White paper by the Pension Real Estate Association, Hartford CT.  A synopsis is also forthcoming in the PREA Quarterly, Fall 2006. [pdf]

2003    Elaine Worzala and Aaron Flores, “Are WREAA grads leaders or technicians?”, Equity Kicker, Vol. 17(2) Fall: 8. [pdf]

2003    Elaine Worzala, “Graduate Education:  Advantages of an MS over an MBA in the real estate profession”, San Diego Daily Transcript, November 6, 2003. [pdf]