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Mark Stapp is a well-known Phoenix-area real estate expert and is an accomplished real estate investor, advisor and developer.

Stapp has been part of various business enterprises and development projects across the United States for more than 40 years. He often writes columns and participates in interviews for local and national media on community development and the real estate industry.

Stapp teaches future real estate leaders at the W. P. Carey School of Business. As the Fred E. Taylor Professor of Real Estate at the W. P. Carey School, Stapp has numerous roles and titles including Executive Director of the well-known one-year Master of Real Estate Development program, to name a few. He also serves as a faculty associate at ASU’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.

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Typically housing demand results from population growth and that is a result of employment growth. I see the trend of small/mid-sized metro living continuing but in concert with a return to larger city centers – I do not see these as either/or.

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