Dr. Lawrence A. Souza

Dr. Souza has over 35 years of experience in the commercial real estate industry and has been teaching college-level courses for the past 25 years at numerous colleges in the Bay Area. Companies he's previously worked at include New York Life Insurance Company/NYLIFE Securities, Charles Schwab Investment Management, Global Real Analytics, and the Quantum Financial Network. He has also held senior positions in strategic portfolio research and analysis with various real estate services firms. Dr. Souza is also a registered representative and investment advisor, as well as a real estate consultant, licensed California insurance agent, and real estate investment broker.

• Real estate housing research
• Commercial real estate market analysis
• Macroeconomics and monetary policy
• Modern and post-modern portfolio theory

• The Political Economy and Philosophy of Commercial Real Estate Investment: Forecast 2022 -to- 2027
• U.S. Housing Policy, Politics and Economics: Bias and Outcomes
• Comparative Housing Policy: Europe vs. U.S.
• Real Estate Technologicalization: Machines vs. Robots
• Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Fungible-Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), Smart Contraction Applications to Institutional Real Estate Transactions, Trading and Portfolio Management
• Life Science Market Research and Selection
• COVID Impacts on Commercial Real Estate Space and Investment Markets
• Real Estate Sustainability (ESG) Frameworks and Measurement
• Hyper-Scale and Micro-Data Center Market Analysis and Selection Model
• REIT Smart Beta and Alpha Generating Investment Portfolio Strategies and Applications
• Modern Real Estate Portfolio Management: Applications in Modern (MREPT) and Post-Modern (PMREPT) Real Estate Portfolio Theory
• History of Infrastructure Investment in the United States
• Development of Infrastructure Capital Markets: Central Banking, Financial Institutions, and the Public-Private Debt and Equity Markets
• Drivers of REIT FFO Multiples
• REIT Weighted Average Cost of Capital
• Real Estate Debt and Equity Securities Markets
• Fast Flex Industrial Buildings: Valuation and Leasing Options
• Book Reviews: Central Bankers at the End of Their Rope?, Systemic Fragility in the Global Economy, and Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of the Federal Reserve by Dr. Jack Rasmus

• Keynote Speaker, Political Philosophy and Economy of Commercial Real Estate Investment: Forecast 2024-2028, March 21st, CCIM CRE Symposium, San Francisco CA;
• Scholarship Committee for Financial Women of San Francisco;
• "Top Ten Issues" Committee for the Counselors of Real Estate;
• Programs Committee for Financial Women of San Francisco and Commercial Real Estate Women;
• Advisor for Commercial Real Estate Companies and PropTech startups: 1) Greensparc (Data Centers), Tiger Blocks (PropTech), DC Blox (Data Centers), United Growth (Retail), HomeiT (NFTs), TrailBreak Partners (CRE), etc;
• Presented two papers (Real Estate Sustainability Frameworks and Hyper-Micro Scale Data Centers) at the American Real Estate Society Mid-Year Leadership Conference, Thursday, November 10, 2022, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona;

• Golden Gate University, DBA, Corporate Finance/Real Estate Management
• San Francisco State University, MPA, MA, Political Science
• San Francisco State University, MA, Applied Economics
• University of San Francisco, MS, Information Systems
• Golden Gate University, MS, Finance
• San Francisco State University, BS, BA, Economics

• President-CEO Chief Economist, Economics Applications, Inc. (EAI)
• Chief Economist, Greensparc
• Chief Economist, Capital Brain
• Sales and Research, Penserra
• Director of Research, BRE Properties
• Adjunct Professor Economics, Finance, Accounting, Real Estate, Saint Mary’s College (SMC), University of Redlands(UofR), University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC), Menlo College (MC), San Francisco State, Cal State East Bay, Golden Gate University, University of San Francisco

• Outstanding Faculty Advisor, and Outstanding Faculty Service Award, for School of Economics and Business Administration (SEBA) St. Mary’s College of California
• Edward S. Ageno School of Business Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Finance Excellence in Teaching, 2013. 

• Legal and Regulatory Transactional Frameworks Using Non-Fungible Tokens and Smart Contracts for Institutional Capital Market Development, Journal of Real Estate Finance, Volume 40, Number 4, Spring 2024.
• New Risk-Management Considerations For The Real Estate Industry In The Era Of Artificial Intelligence for Global Studies on Economics and Finance. Volume 1, Issue 2, No. 2. Received 7 October 2023; Accepted 15 November 2023, Published online 28 November 2023.