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Erin Degnan Escobedo

  • Assistant Professor of Practice
  • George E. Sly '53 Term Chair in Real Estate Management
Academic Division: Finance
Erin Degnan Escobedo teaches Babson's real estate curriculum and has designed several courses within the curriculum. She is a licensed attorney in Massachusetts and Florida and a licensed real estate broker in Massachusetts. Erin has practiced law since 2004, focusing her practice primarily on real estate law, corporate transactions, and commercial litigation. She has extensive experience representing Fortune 500 companies and individual clients as a litigator and transactional attorney with Shutts & Bowen LLP in Miami, FL. Erin later worked as an Associate General Counsel to a NASDAQ-listed, real estate corporation engaged in home building, land development, and other real estate operations in multiple states and managing approximately $545,000,000 in total assets.

Prior to joining Babson, Erin was a Lecturer at the University of Miami School of Business Administration in Miami, FL and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Florida International University College of Law.

At Babson, Erin designed and teaches the following courses: FIN 7566 Real Estate Transactions, FIN 9510 Residential Real Estate: Acquisition, Disposition, Finance and Leasing, FIN 3511 Residential Real Estate, and FIN 3512 Real Estate Transactions and Law. Erin also teaches FIN 7578 Real Estate Development, which she redesigned as an intensive elective, and FIN 3555 Real Estate Investment.

Academic Degrees

  • JD, Georgetown University Law Center
  • AB, Brown University

Academic Interest / Expertise

Real estate business and law

Awards & Honors

  • 2021 — Teaching Innovation Fund (TIF) Award, Babson College - Teaching Innovation Fund (TIF)
  • 2020 — George E. Slye ’53 Term Chair in Real Estate Management, Babson College

Courses

  • Degree Courses 2024

    • FIN 3555 REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT
    • FIN 3511 RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE
    • FIN 9510 RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE
  • Degree Courses 2023

    • LAW 1000 BUSINESS LAW & ETHICS
    • FIN 7566 REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS
    • FIN 3512 REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS AND LAW
    • FIN 3511 RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE
    • FIN 3555 REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT
    • FIN 9510 RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE
  • Degree Courses 2022

    • LAW 1000 BUSINESS LAW & ETHICS
    • FIN 7566 REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS
    • FIN 3512 REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS AND LAW
    • FIN 3555 REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT
    • FIN 3511 RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE
    • FIN 9510 RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Escobedo, E.D., Morikone, C., , ., , . (2002). Fourth Annual Review of Gender and Sexuality Law, Violence Law Chapter, "Rape" . The Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law. Vol: 4, Issue: 1, Page: 503-523. The Georgetown University Law Center . link

Presentations

  • "The 2022 Greater Boston Commercial Real Estate Sector: Buy, Sell or Hold?" Escobedo, E. Stephen D. Cutler Center for Investments & Finance, Finance Fridays, Distinguished Speaker Series, Virtual - Webex (2022)
  • Teaching interdisciplinary negotiation simulations: The 325 Superior Street role-play Weirup, A. Escobedo, E. Management & Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference, Virtual (2021)
  • "Navigating the Real Estate Markets: Insights from an Entrepreneurial and Family Office Perspective" Escobedo, E. Congel, S. Babson Cutler Center Finance Fridays Webinar Series, Virtual - Babson College Cutler Center (2021)
  • “An Investment Management Perspective on the State of the Commercial Real Estate Market During Covid-19” Escobedo, E. Babson Miami Summer Series Webinar, Virtual - Babson Miami (2020)
  • Opportunity Knocks: When Entrepreneurship and Real Estate Align Escobedo, E. , . Babson Real Estate Group, Babson College (2019)
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Professional Services

  • Board Member EducationRE, Inc. (2021 - 2025)
  • Committee Member CREW Boston (Commercial Real Estate Women), UCREW Committee (2021 - 2022)

Professional Memberships

  • GBREB Real Estate Finance Association (2022 - 2025)
  • Real Estate Bar Association (2022 - 2025)