Center for Real Estate (MIT)

Jacques Gordon joined the faculty of MIT's Center for Real Estate in January after a 40-year career as a real estate investment manager and industry researcher. For most of that time he was Head of Research and Strategy at LaSalle Investment Management, which is part of JLL, a global real estate services company which operates in 90 different countries. While at JLL Jacques led the development of. Global Transparency Index.

Jacques did his dissertation work while at MIT and with support from the Joint Center for Housing Studies on the topic of "hidden housing production". This study looked at the ways that housing units were created through conversions, ADUs, and off-the-books renovation activity. He will be teaching a course on portfolio management and contributing to the work of the Sustainability Lab here at the Center.

In this podcast Jacques discusses the hot topics that both industry and academics are tackling. Provides examples of how real estate transparency and national economic policies interact. He also talks about a global transparency index that he was instrumental in developing and how he sees policy makers and different stakeholders using it and the next iteration of the index.