Roger J.Brown can currently be found as the Director of Research for the Real Estate and Land Use Institute at San Diego State University.

Prior to creating mathestate, he spent over 30 years in the fields of real estate and finance. His wide range of expertise includes the following areas:

  • Negotiating investment real estate sales
  • Tax Deferred exchanges and leasing
  • Originating and servicing mortgage loans
  • Fiduciary responsibilities of general partner
  • Expert witness in civil litigation
  • Writing and teaching in the fields of real estate investment, finance appraisal, taxation, analysis and management
  • General Manager of 35 year-old firm which has had as many as 100 employees supervising of all aspects of finance, legal, accounting and administration of investment portfolios

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    The Pennsylvania State University
    Ph.D. in Business Administration, 2000
    Major field - Finance (concentration in Real Estate)
    Minor field - Economics

    San Diego State University
    MBA - Major field - Finance, 1994
    BA - Major field - Speech Arts and Marketing, 1970

    REALTORS National Marketing Institute
    1979 Designated CCIM (Certified Commercial-Investment Member)

    Publications:
    "Evaluating Future Input Assumption Risk"
    Appraisal Journal - April, 1998

    "Zijn onroerend goed aandelen onroerend goed of aandelen?"
    (Are REITs Stocks or Real Estate? A Review of the Issues)
    VOGON Journal (The Netherlands) - January 1997

    "The Emerging Fourth Wave of Aesthetic Regulation: Beauty Is in the Pocketbooks of the Beholder"
    with Jeffery M. ĘSharp, Proceedings of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, Quebec City, 1996

    "America Becoming 'The Beautiful' Again: Examining a Century of Aesthetic Regulation"
    with Jeffery M. ĘSharp, National Proceedings of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, San Diego, 1998

    "Intracity Geographic Diversification of Real Estate Portfolios: Preliminary Evidence from Hong Kong"
    with Ling Hin Li and Kenneth Lusht, The Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management, April/June, 2000

    Published over 30 times in the following local papers: San Diego Union/Tribune, San Diego Daily Transcript, and the San Diego Business Journal

    Conference Presentations:
    "Intracity Geographic Diversification of Real Estate Portfolios: Preliminary Evidence from Hong Kong"
    Asian Real Estate Society Conference, Hong Kong, 1997

    "Tier II Real Estate" American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association 2001
    International Real Estate Conference, Cancun, 2001

    "Risk and Private Real Estate Investments"
    19th Annual American Real Estate Society Meeting, Monterey, CA 2003
    Winner: Manuscript prize in category of Innovative Thinking sponsored by the Homer Hoyt Advanced Studies Institute

    "Multi-Family Investor Tenure Choice"
    (with T. G. Geurts), 19th Annual American Real Estate Society Meeting, Monterey, CA 2003
    Winner: Manuscript prize in the Apartment category sponsored by the National Multi-Housing Council

    Supplementary Textbook:
    Private Real Estate Investment: People, Property and Numbers
    Elsevier Science, in Press (2004)

    Awards and Scholarships:
    Real Estate Research Institute, 1999 Dissertation Research Grant
    1999-2000 Ossian R. MacKenzie Doctoral Award