The Real Estate Colloquium course offers a comprehensive real estate overview featuring sessions led by industry professionals covering finance, investment, law, planning, and public policy. Topics include REITs, capital markets, leasing, brokerage, and development. Through moderated discussions with diverse industry representatives, students explore their interests and gain insights into career potential academic and career paths within real estate.

The Corcoran Center for Real Estate and Urban Action invites students, faculty, and staff to hear from Karin Brandt, CEO and Founder of coUrbanize.

coUrbanize is a digital platform that helps real estate developers and municipalities modernize and simplify community outreach to build better projects faster. Karin holds a master’s degree in city planning from MIT and began her career in urban development working at Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, where she co-edited Infrastructure and Land Policies. While in urban planning, she saw development opportunities stymied by NIMBYism at community meetings. Determined to make an impact on how cities grow, Karin launched coUrbanize in 2013 and joined the TechStars Boston accelerator. Since founding the company, coUrbanize has supported over 250 projects across the US and Canada to help residents and project teams build better communities together.

Registration is not required.