UA’s Zumpano Named Editor of Prestigious Journal of Housing Research

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Dr. Leonard V. Zumpano, director of the Alabama Real Estate Research and Education Center, has been named editor of the recently revived Journal of Housing Research, now being published under the aegis of the prestigious American Real Estate Society.

In 2004, because of other commitments, the Fannie Mae Foundation decided to discontinue publishing the Journal of Housing Research. After little more than a year hiatus, the publication was revived with Zumpano at the editor’s desk.

“The first issue will be out this spring,” Zumpano said. “My publication and research focus has been very much housing related, and the journal focuses on just that – policy, housing financing, and the efficiency of the housing market.

“The Journal of Housing Research is one of the most prestigious real estate journals. I am fortunate to have a managing editor with experience and contacts in the field. A major part of my initial work was asking members of the existing editorial board to stay on, and while we have some new members, I am pleased to say that most of the existing board members agreed to stay.

“Also, I am fortunate that I know a lot of the people who do research in the journal’s areas of interest, and I have been able to interest them in supporting and contributing their research to the journal.”

Zumpano said he plans to increase the journal’s international coverage. “It is still taking shape. Under the former publisher, the journal had a very strong applied research orientation, and we are trying to include theoretical pieces as well as policy type research articles.”

The first issue under the new publisher will contain five articles, Zumpano said. The journal will be published twice a year. “I plan to try to make it the leading journal in the area of housing research,” Zumpano said.

The managing editor is Shelton Weeks of Florida Gulf Coast University and the editorial board is made up of Eric S. Belsky, Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University; Robert Buckley, Principal Economist, The World Bank, Urban Division, Washington, D.C.; Karl Case, Wellesley College, Economics Department; Wellesley, Mass.; Phillip L. Clay, chancellor, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.; David Crowe, Federal Regulatory and Housing, National Association of Home Builders, Washington, D.C.; Stuart Gabriel, University of Southern California, Lusk Center for Real Estate, Los Angeles; George C. Galster, Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit; Donald Haurin, economics and finance, Ohio State University, Columbus; James Kau, University of Georgia, Department of Insurance, Legal Studies and Real Estate, Athens’ John M. Quigley, I. Donald Terner Distinguished Professor, University of California at Berkley; Allen Goodman, Wayne State University, Department of Economics, Detroit; Patric Hendershott, Department of Land Economy, University of Aberdeen, Scotland; Katherine Kiel, College of Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass.; Stuart S. Rosenthal, professor of economics, Syracuse University for Policy Research, Syracuse, N.Y.; Stephen E. Roulac, president, Roulac Global Places, San Rafael, Calif.; Kerry D. Vandell, Tiefenthaler Chair and director, Center for Urban and Land Economic Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison; James E. Webb, professor and director, Cleveland State University Real Estate Research, Cleveland; Anthony M. Yezer, professor of economics, George Washington University, department of economics, Washington, D.C.; Michael A. Stegman, Macrae Professor of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Susan M. Wachter, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, Real Estate Department, Philadelphia; Christine Whitehead, Reader in Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economics, London; Amy Bogdon, Housing Finance, Fannie Mae Foundation, Washington, D.C.; Randy Anderson, President, Capital Group, CNL Financial Group, Orlando; Austin J. Kelly, assistant director, U.S. Government Accountability Office, Springfield, Va.; C.F. Sirmans, Center for Real Estate; University of Connecticut; Paul Bishop, Research Division, The National Association of Realtors, Washington, D.C.; Marsha J. Courchane, Principal, ERS Group, Washington, D.C.; Steven C. Bourassa, professor and director, School of Urban and Public Affairs, the University of Louisville; Michael La Cour-Little, professor of finance, California State Univeristy-Fullerton; Forrest W. Pafenberg, Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, Washington, D.C.; Ong Seow Eng, Department of Real Estate, National University of Singapore; Christos I. Giannikos, Department of Economics and Finance, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York.

The Alabama Real Estate Research and Education Center is part of The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration. The UA business school, founded in 1919, has been recognized repeatedly for offering a high-quality, cost-effective education.