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BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Mark G Dotzour
Dr. Mark G. Dotzour (pronounced Dot sir) is the Chief Economist and Director of Research for
the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. He earned his Ph.D. in the
Department of Finance at the University of Texas at Austin in 1987 and served as Associate Professor of
Real Estate and Finance at Wichita State University for 10 years.
Dotzour taught Land Economics in Slovakia in 1993 and also served as a visiting research scholar
at Lincoln University in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1993. He has presented his research findings to
audiences Europe, Australia and New Zealand. He recently made a presentation to real estate professionals
in Tianjin, China’s third largest city.
Prior to his academic career, he was president of Gleneagles Development, Inc., developing
residential subdivisions in Wichita, Kansas. He also served as president of Dotzour Inc., Realtors, which
was a residential brokerage firm in Wichita, Kansas, earning his CRB designation in 1982.
He has been at the Real Estate Center since August, 1997. Since then, he has published 44 articles
and given over 300 presentations. He is a regular speaker at the Texas Association of Realtors state
convention, and has made presentations in 47 different Texas cities.
His research findings and comments have been published in the Wall Street Journal , USA Today ,
Business Week and newspapers throughout Texas. As Chief Economist, he is currently doing market
research to monitor real estate conditions in 27 major cities in Texas. The son of a former golf
professional, he is trying to rebuild his golf game that he gave up twenty years ago to raise a family.