For the second consecutive year, the Thailand Summer Abroad Program, developed by Professor Acosta in collaboration with Notre Dame International, offered students a unique opportunity to delve into the dynamic world of real estate in Asia. The Thailand Summer Program...

FIRE’s Church Properties Initiative (CPI) welcomed four undergraduate students as interns and research assistants for the summer of 2023. Representing a range of majors, minors, and career aspirations, the team advanced CPI’s research on the intersection of church property with...

The University of Notre Dame has announced the appointment of Michael C. O’Malley as executive director of the Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate (FIRE). O’Malley brings more than 25 years of real estate, entrepreneurship and investment experience and will spearhead...

The Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate (FIRE) is focused on being a thought leader and conducting world-class research across multiple disciplines on the world’s largest asset class, real estate. To this end, FIRE is pleased to welcome...

Leaders from seven Catholic dioceses and archdioceses gathered on campus June 7th - 8th, 2023, to explore ways to leverage Church-owned real estate to support Catholic educators.

Even as diocesan leaders across the country deepen their commitment to education, parish and...

On Sunday, May 21st, 2023, 75 students will be graduating from the University of Notre Dame with a Minor in Real Estate. This is the largest class of students the...

Buying a house, flipping it, and selling it for a profit: that is what many students envision when they hear the term "real estate," according to Eugenio Acosta.

As the Senior Associate...

Video recordings from the Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate Church Properties Initiative's Fall 2022 conference, The Future of Church Property, are now available to view and share. Almost 50...

A group of interns working at the Notre Dame Center for Civic Innovation spent the summer of 2022  focused on housing affordability in our local community. The team collaborated with Habitat for Humanity in St. Joseph...

Mike is the new Executive-in-Residence at Notre Dame’s Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate (FIRE). In August 2022, Professor Dan Kelly, FIRE’s faculty director, posed a series of questions to Mike about his...

Notre Dame's Church Properties Initiative, a project of the Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate, recently conducted a case study of an innovative church property redevelopment project in Austin, Texas.

The St. Austin Catholic Parish and School…

The catalog offers a range of contextually appropriate building types — carriage house, narrow house, standard house, stacked duplex and small apartment — based on current zoning laws and lot sizes, building materials and methods, and market conditions.

Stefanos Polyzoides and Marianne Cusato are working with business and community leaders in South Bend and Kalamazoo, Michigan, to restore and revitalize neighborhoods.

Prof. Davin Raiha (University of Notre Dame), a member of the Economics Department and Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate, and John M. de Figueiredo (Duke University), recently published "Economic Influence Activities and the Strategic Location of Investment" in Business &...