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Professor of Real Estate and Urban Economics, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge
Professor Franz Fuerst is Professor of Real Estate and Urban Economics at the University of Cambridge as well a Fellow/Director of Studies at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He also holds fellowships at the Academy of Social Sciences, the J M Keynes Fund and the Cambridge University Land Society.
Professor Fuerst is principal investigator on a number of international research projects and coordinates a team of doctoral and postdoctoral researchers. Previous academic posts include Associate Professor in Real Estate Economics at the University of Reading, Research Associate at the City University of New York as well as the Technical University of Berlin. Outside of academia, he worked for BNP Paribas Real Estate and was responsible for market research and consultancy services around large-scale commercial real estate portfolio transactions. Professor Fuerst is the principal author of several widely cited and award-winning studies on the pricing of sustainable features in a number of international commercial and residential markets. Most recently, he won the 2022 ARES/CoStar best paper award for his joint analysis of healthy building certifications and the 2021 Nick Tyrell Prize for his work on specialist non-listed funds with two co-authors. Previously, he was awarded the Pacific Rim Real Estate Society Best Refereed Paper Award, Latin American Real Estate Society Best Working Paper Award, the Emerald Highly Commended Paper Award, the Emerald Outstanding Paper Award and the DTZ Research Institute Best Paper Award. He is also affiliated with a number of universities and research institutions worldwide, for example as a fellow of the Thrive Research Hub at the University of Melbourne and a visiting professor at several universities. He advises businesses and government authorities on real estate related matters and serves as Co-Editor of Spatial Economic Analysis.
