Franz Fuerst, Ph.D.
Investment Research Group
Franz is Director of Studies and a Reader (Associate Professor) in Housing and Real Estate Finance at the University of Cambridge and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He is principal investigator on a number of international research projects and coordinates a team of doctoral and postdoctoral researchers.
Previous academic posts include Associate Professor in Real Estate Economics at the University of Reading, Research Associate at the City University of New York and the Technical University of Berlin.
Outside of academia, he has worked for BNP Paribas Real Estate where he was responsible for market research and forecasting. Franz has authored and co-authored several widely cited and award-winning studies on the economics of green buildings and the economic value of energy efficiency in real estate markets. His expertise and research interests are principally in the area of green real estate economics, financial analysis of sustainable investments, portfolio and risk management and spatial economics.
In 2016/17, he was a visiting professor at the University of Melbourne to investigate the health and well-being impacts of sustainability and links to green real estate finance in an Australian context.
The sustainable choice that is the most fun for me:
Bike commuting along the beach.
What I’d like to see more of in the world:
Affordable green technology going global.
