Biography
Alex van de Minne is a visiting assistant professor at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, where he focuses on commercial property price dynamics, spatial and financial econometrics, Bayesian structural time series models and machine learning applications in real estate.
Before joining Cornell, van de Minne was an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut School of Business from 2019 to 2026. From 2015 to 2019, he served as a postdoctoral researcher and research scientist at the MIT Center for Real Estate, where he founded and led the Real Estate Price Dynamics Platform.
He is also a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, where his research supports county level commercial property price indexes used to monitor bank loan performance. His work has been published in Real Estate Economics, The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics and The Journal of Real Estate Research.
Van de Minne is the main author of the fourth edition of Commercial Real Estate Analysis & Investment and serves on the editorial boards of The Journal of Real Estate Research and The Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management. Outside academia, he has consulted for MSCI and Moody’s Analytics, developing commercial property price indexes, cap rate models and liquidity indicators.
He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam’s Amsterdam Business School and an M.S. and B.S. from Delft University of Technology.
Education
PhD Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam MS Delft University of Technology BS Delft University of Technology