# NYU Stern's new Center for Real Estate Finance Research is featured

1 School News April 12, 2012 ![The Real Deal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_035629.gif?itok=IgTvXuBh)>

Excerpt from [The Real Deal](http://therealdeal.com/blog/2012/04/12/nyu-gets-new-real-estate-finance-research-center-expands-curriculum/) -- "'We learned from the global financial crisis of the systemic importance of real estate finance and continue to see how housing influences the direction and speed of the economic recovery,' said [Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh](http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/stijn-van-nieuwerburgh), a professor of finance at NYU’s Stern school and the director of the Center for Real Estate Finance Research."

[Read more](http://therealdeal.com/blog/2012/04/12/nyu-gets-new-real-estate-finance-research-center-expands-curriculum/)

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