The La Caisse Real Estate Chair is an academic research-innovation chair committed to the advancement of new expertise, competencies, and educational programs within the real estate sector.
Rethinking real estate beyond the expected : 30 Years of Excellence and Innovation
The La Caisse Real Estate Chair aims to support and accelerate the major transformations reshaping the real estate sector — whether financial, regulatory, technological, environmental, social, or organizational. It leverages scientific research, advanced training, and collaborative innovation to analyze, measure, and guide the evolution of real estate practices, including investment, financing, governance, development, management, and asset value creation.
Positioned at the centre of the real estate ecosystem, the Chair serves as a convergence space connecting academia, institutional investors, industry stakeholders, public-sector actors, and communities. It advances the production of strategic knowledge, the development of specialized expertise, and the creation of decision-support tools that help anticipate market shifts and enable informed, responsible, and high-performance responses.
As a think tank, experimentation platform, and space for dialogue, the Chair contributes to reimagining investment, planning, management, and value creation in real estate — for the benefit of organizations, territories, and future generations.