Christopher Mahowald

Chris is actively involved in the real estate investment business. His real estate private equity firm invests across product types throughout the U.S. and Europe. During his career, he has focused on value investing with deep experience in distressed mortgage debt. In the Real Estate Investment course he co-teaches with Doug Abbey, he works with Stanford Graduate School of Business students to evaluate career opportunities in real estate and to expose them to research and educational opportunities in the field. While the focus of the course is real estate investment, students are introduced to broader issues of how land use decisions are created through a combination of market forces, demographics, and regulation, and how resulting land use patterns impact housing affordability and integration or isolation of households by income level. In the Housing and the Mortgage Market course he co-teaches with Greg Buchak, students are exposed to how political gamesmanship, financial crises, and financial innovation come hand-in-hand with real estate finance, which has played a central role in the rise and fall of economies, financial institutions, and the lives of ordinary Americans.