For students studying abroad, Thailand offers a new perspective on careers in real estate
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…
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Church Properties Conference Session Recordings Now Available
Video recordings from the Fitzgerald Institute for Real…
Affordable Housing
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…
A Conversation with Mike O'Malley '96, FIRE's Inaugural Executive-in-Residence
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...
A Church Properties Initiative Case Study: St. Austin Catholic Parish and School
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…
South Bend offers free, pre-approved house plans with input from Notre Dame
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.
School of Architecture’s community regeneration efforts lead to $2.4M development grant for South Bend
Stefanos Polyzoides and Marianne Cusato are working with business and community leaders in South Bend and Kalamazoo, Michigan, to restore and revitalize neighborhoods.
Raiha Publishes Article on "Economic Influence Activities and the Strategic Location of Investment"
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 &...
A Home by Design
Featured on the University of Notre Dame home page, A Home by Design is a feature article spotlighting the collaboration between architecture professor John Mellor, alumnae Naomi Hernandez, and Habitat for Humanity of St. Joseph County.
72 Students graduate in real estate, 379 return next year
On May 15, 2022, 72 undergraduate students from the University of Notre Dame will graduate with a Minor in Real Estate, more than double the size of the inaugural real estate class last year.
With land grabs comes competition for water — and local farmers are likely to lose
New research shows large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) in Ethiopia's Omo River region could threaten water resources downstream to the local farmers and Indigenous populations living along the Omo.
Making an impact through real estate and the Catholic imagination
FIRE's Church Properties Initiative arose out of the desire to use the University’s resources in service of the Church’s needs.