About Chandan Economics

    Chandan Economics is a leader in the analysis of the economy and financial markets and their relationship to commercial real estate. Under the direction of noted economist Sam Chandan, the firm pioneers the integration of rigorous analytical frameworks, capital and credit lifecycle models, and a deep understanding of the commercial real estate asset class. Critical real estate questions are evaluated in the context of the broader economic and capital markets landscape, supporting more informed investment and risk management decisions across a wide range of investors, lenders, and policymakers.

     

    The Evolution of Commercial Real Estate Research

    The cornerstone of our analytical framework, the Real Estate Economics (REE) service empowers CRE decision-makers with clear insights into the connection between the economy and credit market trends and the performance of real estate assets.

    Distinguished by its focus on these broader causal relationships, REE equips market participants with an advance view on real estate trends, enabling them to anticipate changes in fundamentals and capital flows.

    REE's quantitative and qualitative analytics are specifically designed to assist investors and lenders in gauging their location on the economic and credit lifecycles, the influence of broader capital market conditions on real estate, and the lifecycle's role in driving real estate risk and expected return.

    Building upon REE's economic and capital markets analysis, our Debt & Credit Analytics services are designed to dramatically enhance lenders' and investors' understanding of the risk profile and prospective performance of commercial real estate loans and loan portfolios. By measuring loan quality in the context of broader capital markets conditions, our independent, unbiased analysis addresses one of the major shortfalls in the market's evaluative capacity over the last real estate cycle.

    Leadership

    Dr Sam Chandan is President and Chief Economist of Chandan Economics and an adjunct professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. A noted economist and active commentator on issues of national and global economic significance, Dr Chandan is amongst the commercial real estate industry’s leading voices in relation to capital and credit markets and the dynamic relationship between the economy, regulation, and market performance.

    In his academic and private sector roles, Dr Chandan has served as an advisor to a wide array of the nation's banks and non-bank lenders, securitized debt market participants, investors, and policy makers.

    Dr Chandan received the PhD in Applied Economics from the Wharton School and was a doctoral scholar at Princeton University. In addition to his current teaching in the fields of Public Policy and Real Estate Finance at Wharton, he has served as a visiting professor in the Economics Department at Dartmouth College.

    Dr Chandan's personal website can be found at www.samchandan.com.

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    Academic and Industry Advisors

    Our Academic and Industry Advisory Boards are comprised of eminent academic researchers and commercial real estate industry leaders, representing an extraordinary depth and breadth of experience and insight. These individuals provide Chandan Economics with access to unique and fully independent perspectives on policy and regulatory issues as well as current and prospective trends in the real estate industry.

    Strategic Partners

    Axiometrics is the real estate industry's most trusted repository of information and trends relating to the performance of US multifamily assets. The firm's apartment database, the largest surveyed on a monthly basis, includes properties and portfolios owned by both private and listed apartment REITs, as well as properties owned and managed by private investors, developers, and management companies in 305 markets and totaling more than 4.8 million units. Visit the Axiometrics website at www.axiometrics.com.