Wayne Day, PhD
Dr. Wayne Day is a Research Analyst with Strategic Property Analytics. He has extensive experience analyzing the effects of environmental contamination, natural hazards and disasters, and other complex valuation issues on residential and commercial properties and broader real estate markets using traditional appraisal and advanced statistical methodologies. He has experience valuing source and non-source properties for litigation and non-litigation matters across a variety of conditions including on-site and off-site oil extraction and refinery facilities; chemical and mechanical manufacturing facilities; high-voltage transmission lines; and environmental remediation activities.
Dr. Day is also a researcher at Texas A&M, where he maintains a broad residential and commercial real estate research agenda and has taught courses on real estate, housing, and analytic methods in various capacities. His research interests lie largely at the intersection of real estate markets and disaster events including housing, household, and community disaster recovery actions, financing, and outcomes following natural and technical disasters; and hazard mitigation and preparedness in housing markets and their effects on housing values and subsequent hazard exposure. He also conducts research on housing-related outcomes and renter- and owner-occupied housing affordability, among other real estate research interests.
Dr. Day has worked on large, collaborative, interdisciplinary research teams funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). His research on flood zone buyouts and housing values was funded by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. He was previously a Research Associate at the Texas Real Estate Research Center, where he conducted applied research on Texas' regional real estate markets and economies. He has published and presented research across academic and professional venues targeting real estate, urban studies, and hazards and disasters academics and practitioners.
He holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Science and a Master of Real Estate from Texas A&M University, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of North Texas. He has received honors from the Appraisal Institute, International Real Estate Society, FIABCI International Real Estate Federation, and Trepp CRE. He is an active member of the American Real Estate Society (ARES), Appraisal Institute (AI), Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), and Urban Land Institute (ULI).