What do the commercial real estate industry, 15 U.S. universities and a hypothetical $15 billion have in common? The 2015 Real Confidence University Portfolio Challenge, launched on July 6, will spend a year tracking 90 college students, representing 15 colleges, to discover what the next generation of commercial real estate investors is thinking. Charles Chuck DiRocco, CRE, CCIM, FRICs, director of research, valuation and advisory with Altus Group, a Jersey City, N.J.-based commercial real estate consulting and advisory services firm, explains how the competition works and why it came to be.
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