Thomas A. Thomson, Ph.D.

Quincy Lee Endowed Chair for Excellence in Real Estate Finance and Development Education and Professor, Finance

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Bio

Professor Thomson is the Quincy Lee Endowed Chair and Professor of Real Estate and Finance in the Carlos Alvarez College of Business at The University of Texas, San Antonio. His teaching includes Real Estate Finance and Real Estate Investment at both the graduate and undergraduate level, Principles of Real Estate, Principles of Investments, and Principles of Corporate Finance. He is a recipient of the Carlos Alvarez College of Business faculty award for Overall Faculty Excellence, for Research, for Academic Service and for Community Service. He is a member of the The American Real Estate Society and CCIM. He is the faculty advisor for the UTSA Running Club.

Prior to joining the UTSA faculty Dr. Thomson held faculty positions at the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois as well as working professionally for Fortune 500 companies. When not attending to his UTSA duties he loves to spend time with family and various athletic endeavors such as running marathons, snow skiing, and hiking.

Research Interests

Real estate finance including mortgage default, foreclosures and subprime mortgages
Real estate brokerage, taxation of residential real estate and the value of green in real estate

Degrees

Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
M.S. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
B.S.F. (Honours) University of British Columbia

Publications

“The Value of “Green” in Resale Residential Real Estate: Premium by Year, Neighborhood Value Quintile and Homestead Status” with A. Cadena. Journal of Sustainable Real Estate, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2021, pp. 12-29. org
“Residential Asking Rents and Time on the Market,” with M. Allen, and R. Rutherford, The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Vol. 38, No. 4, 2009, pp. 351-365.
“Subprime Transitions: Lingering or Malingering in Default,” with D. Capozza, The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Vol. 33, No. 3, 2006, pp. 240-258.
“Appraisal, Agency and Atypicality: Evidence From Manufactured Homes,” with D. Capozza and R. Israelsen, Real Estate Economics, Vol. 33, No. 3, 2005, pp. 509-537.
“Optimal Stopping and Losses on Subprime Mortgages,” with D. Capozza, The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2005, pp. 115-131.
“The Influence of Race in Residential Mortgage Closings,” with J. McMurray, The Journal of Real Estate Research, Vol. 25, No. 4, 2003, pp. 543-556.
“Real Estate Agent Remarks: Help or Hype?,” with J. Haig and R. Rutherford, Journal of Real Estate Research, Vol. 20, No. 1-2, 2000, pp. 205-215.
“The Conditional Probability of Mortgage Default,” with D. Capozza and D. Kazarian, Real Estate Economics (AREUEA Journal), Vol. 26, No. 3, 1998, pp. 259-289.
“Determinants of the Closing Probability of Residential Mortgages,” with J. McMurray, Journal of Real Estate Research, Vol. 14, No. 1-2, 1997, pp. 55-64.
“Optimal Forest Rotation When Stumpage Prices Follow a Diffusion,” Land Economics, Vol. 68, No. 3, 1992, pp. 329-342.
“Efficient Combinations of Timber and Financial Market Investments in Single Period and Multiperiod Portfolios,” Forest Science, Vol. 37, No. 2, 1991, pp. 471-480.

Thomas A. Thomson, Ph.D.