The Department of Real Estate has a strong track record of interdisciplinary research in the area of property investment and property market analysis.
The Centre for Real Estate Research (CRER) acts as a focus for interdisciplinary research in the area of real estate investment and property market analysis. There is close collaboration with the Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability and the Institute for Rural Research.
Research Expertise
- Property investment
- Property market analysis
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Current Real Estate PGRs
| PhD Student | Project Title | Supervisors |
|---|---|---|
| Jialong Wang | A Textual Analysis Approach to Examine How Market Participants Evaluate and Reflect on Commercial Property Investments | Dr Rainer Schulz Dr Martin Wersing |
| Bowen Yan | Tenant Preferences and Decision-Making in Green Building Selection: An ESG Perspective | Dr Nan Liu Dr Yuan Zhao |
Real Estate Research Seminar Series
- External Guest Seminars
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Speaker Affiliation Topic Date Dr Sophie R. Waltl University of Cambridge A Framework to Monitor the Effects of External Shocks on Housing Markets 21/03/2024 Dr Sahil Gandhi University of Manchester Do Mandatory Disclosures Squeeze the Lemons? The Case of Housing Markets 08/02/2024 Professor Helen Bao University of Cambridge Is Hiding My First Name Enough? Using Behavioural Interventions to Mitigate Racial and Gender Discrimination in the Rental Housing Market
01/12/2022 Dr Melanie Zhang University of Northumbria An empirical study on the location of co-working spaces 23/11/2022 Professor Martin Hoesli / Louis Johner University of Geneva Portfolio diversification across U.S. gateway and non-gateway real estate markets 11/05/2022 Professor Steven Bourassa Florida Atlantic University Walkability and house prices 27/04/2022 Professor Colin Lizieri University of Cambridge Price diffusion across international private commercial real estate markets 30/03/2022 Professor Ken Gibb University of Glasgow and Director of the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence Evaluating an EnerPHit deep retrofit of a traditional Glasgow tenement: 107 Niddrie Road
23/03/2022 - Internal Seminars
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Speaker Topic Date Dr Rainer Schulz / Dr Verity Watson / Dr Martin Wersing Lessons from the pandemic: working from home and housing demand in Scotland
04/05/2022