Real Estate

Publications and Research Excellence

The Centre’s strengths are marketed through an extensive publication strategy.  During the most recent RAE assessment period, staff published a total of 126 refereed journal papers, 6 edited books, 9 book chapters, 32 commissioned reports and policy articles and presented 120 international conference papers. Overall in RAE 2008,  20% of the groups research was ranked as 4* (world-leading): 40% 3* (internationally excellent) and 30% 2* (recognised internationally). These ratings give the property a weighted average score of 2.70, in the top 25% in the UK.

Research Activity

The Centre for Real Estate Research (CRER) has been established at Aberdeen to promote research and disseminate findings to academic, practitioner and policy audiences.

Through CRER, group members participate in the Property Economics and Finance Research Network (PEFRN) established as a collaboration between Aberdeen, Glasgow, Reading and Ulster Universities to promote joint research initiatives and raise the profile of property research amongst research funding and user communities.

Real Estate Group Publications

Group members publish extensively in the leading real estate and related academic journals and participate regularly in the main real estate conferences.

Preliminary research by academic staff, research students and property group affiliates is disseminated through the internally reviewed Aberdeen Papers in Real Estate.

Professor Bryan MacGregor edits the Journal of Property Research, one of the leading international journals in the area.

Postgraduate Research

Research degrees in Real Estate (PhD, MPhil) provide opportunities to pursue academic research over a variety of time-scales (typically 3 or 2 years full-time, or 5 or 3 years part-time) and formal research training is available.

Members of the group have substantial supervisory experience and work closely with research students in developing appropriate research programmes in the rapidly expanding field of Real Estate studies.

Real Estate research students form part of a sizeable postgraduate research community within the University of Aberdeen Business School.