Dr Nan Liu

Dr Nan Liu
Dr Nan Liu
Dr Nan Liu

Senior Lecturer

About
Email Address
nan.liu@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 272211
Office Address

S64 Edward Wright Building

Business school

Dunbar Street

Aberdeen

AB24 3YQ

School/Department
Business School

Biography

I joined the University of Aberdeen Business School in 2012 after the completion of my PhD and have been teaching courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. I now look after the Real Estate group as the Head of the group. My research interests are in the areas of residential properties, ESG in real estate, behavior in real estate investments, flexible working spaces, tokenisation in real estate, and governance of the built environment.

Research

Research Overview

My research interests are in the areas of residential properties, urban studies, corporate real estate, flexible working spaces, tokenisation in real estate, and governance of the built environment. I am also interested in property related energy research, particularly in terms of willingness to pay for energy efficiency in different real estate sectors and changes in such energy usage over the time. 

Research Areas

Research Specialisms

  • Housing
  • Urban and Regional Planning
  • Real Estate
  • Urban Studies
  • UK Government/Parliamentary Studies

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

Current Research

 Liu, N., Azure, J., and Deaguiar T. (2021)  "Combustible cladding: Neoliberalism and the boundaries between safety and profit", submitted to Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, Under review.

Tokenised real estate. 

The dynamics of flexible working spaces.

Rent discrimation in coworking providers. 

Location choice of households during the Covid pandemic.

 

Past Research

Pricing strategy in the private housing market.

The governance of building regulations.

Collaborations

Collabration with Dr Wanpeng Li at Computing Science University of Aberdeen and Dr Yuan Zhao on a project on Initial Coin Offerings and Security Token Offering. 

Supervision

PhD project: Coworking dynamics, PhD candidate: Fernanda Antunes. Co-supervised with Professor Hutchison.

Funding and Grants

"The impact of distributed ledgers on the real estate market", funded by RICS research trust.

"Cladding  issues in high rise buildings – the evolution of the performance-based regulation from an interdisciplinary perspective" funded by the Carnegie Trust for Scottish Universities. 

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

Lecturer and course coordinator for the following courses:

PO2009 Land and Property Economics

PO2509 Princinples of property valuation

BU5030 Real Estate Research

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