Research

Research is a key component of staying abreast of trends in the DFW real estate market. As such, our staff, faculty, and colleagues at the Folsom Institute are consistently publishing. See publications below; some of this research is discussed in the curriculum within our MS in Real Estate degree.

White Papers

Mark Roberts, Crow Holding's Director of Research, shares his expertise as staff at the Robert and Margaret Folsom Institute for Real Estate at SMU Cox School of Business, where he extends his industry knowledge into the classroom, teaching market analysis and strategy to undergraduate and graduate students.

He recently served as the Executive Director of the Real Estate Center at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin with more than 30 years of commercial real estate experience. Prior to this, he served as a Managing Director at DWS and held several senior leadership positions, including Head of Research and Strategy, Alternatives and Real Assets, Head of US Multi-Asset and Solutions, and Co-Head of Research for DWS.  

From 1995 until joining DWS’s Real Estate in June 2011, he served as Global Head of Research at Invesco Real Estate, a division of Invesco Asset Management Limited. Roberts was Chairman of the firm’s investment strategy group and served as a member of various Executive and Investment committees. Prior to joining Invesco Real Estate in 1995, Roberts was Director of Construction/Development for Club Corp International Inc., a global hospitality company, in Dallas, TX. Roberts was the Chairman of the Board of NCREIF, President of Real Estate Research Institute (RERI), Chairman of the NCREIF Research Committee, and a member of the NCREIF Fund-Index Subcommittee, which developed the NFI-ODCE Index. He formed and served on the Leadership Committee of the Global Real Estate Fund Index, which is a joint effort of NCREIF (US), INREV (Europe), and ANREV (Asia-Pacific). Roberts holds an MS in Real Estate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BA in Architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana.

Mark is a Fellow of RERI and the Homer Hoyt Institute. He also received the Spaulding Award from MIT’s Center for Real Estate which recognizes distinguished alumni. He is a registered architect and a Chartered Financial Analyst as well as an active member of NCREIF, PREA, ULI, CFA and AIA.

Roberts continues to write and publish white papers on the DFW market. Feel free to review the below and reach out if you'd like to learn more!