Behavioural Science and Housing Decision Making
This new publication by Helen Bao takes a behavioural approach to examine six important housing questions: tenure decision, gentrification, place attachment, housing bubbles, housing wealth, and residential satisfaction
CALL FOR PAPERS: Real Estate Finance and Investment Symposium 2020
The University of Cambridge (Department of Land Economy), the University of Florida (Bergstrom Real Estate Center), the University of Geneva (Geneva Finance Research Institute), and the National University of Singapore (Institute of Real Estate and Urban Studies and Department of Real Estate) announce a call for papers for their joint 2020 Real Estate Finance and Investment Symposium.
Women in Real Estate Seminar
A packed audience recently filled the Principal's Lodge at Newnham College to hear Prof Sofia Dermisi from the University of Washington, and Cambridge's Prof Siqi Zheng talk about career opportunities in real estate in the university sector and what personally shaped their own careers.
Cambridge Real Estate Research Club 2019
This year's CRERC Cambridge Real Estate Research Club was held at Trinity Hall's WYNG Gardens on 1st May.
Real Estate Finance & Investment Symposium September 2019
CRERC, the University of Florida, and the National University of Singapore are pleased to announce their joint 2019 Real Estate Finance and Investment Symposium will be held in Cambridge this September.
New CRERC Mini Project
CRERC's Thies Lindenthal leads on a CDBB mini-project to improve the foundations for applying tried-and-tested machine learning (ML) approaches to the built environment.
Cambridge International Behavioural Sciences and Urban Studies Symposium 19th-22nd May 2019
The Cambridge International Behavioural Sciences and Urban Studies Symposium was recently hosted by CRERC and the University's Department of Land Economy at Newnham College
US Department of Energy workshop on green real estate economics
Dr Franz Fuerst, Reader in Housing and Real Estate Finance at the Department, participated in a workshop jointly hosted by the US Department of Energy and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that took place in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on 6th and 7th October.
Horizon 2020 project hosts national advisory board expert seminar at Silver Street
The Land Economy project team in the Horizon 2020 EU project convened a national advisory board meeting and expert seminar at the Department on 29 September 2017.
Risk analysis of green retrofits presented at FRAP international finance conference
The research team led by Dr Franz Fuerst in the Horizon 2020 EU project "Incentives through Transparency: European Rental Housing Framework for the Profitability Calculation of Retrofitting Investments (RentalCal)" presented their preliminary findings at the 16th FRAP Finance, Risk and Accounting Perspective and 2nd SSFII - Social and Sustainable Finance and Impact Investing conferences in Cambridge from 25 to 27 September 2017.
Cambridge to launch lectureship in Chinese urban development
The creation of the lectureship, based at the Department of Land Economy, was announced at a signing ceremony held in Hong Kong.
“Land Assembly in Amsterdam, 1832-2015”, paper by Dr Thies Lindenthal
Dr Thies Lindenthal, Department of Land Economy and Centre for Real Estate Research - New research paper on, “Land Assembly in Amsterdam, 1832-2015” published in The Journal of Regional Science and Urban Economics [RSUE].
Cambridge hosts Real Estate Finance and Investment research symposium
The Land Economy department hosted the first Real Estate Finance and Investment in Cambridge last month.
Future Cities Conference Success
Future Cities Conference 2016 - Conference Summary Report available to download...........
Future Cities Programme unveiled by The University of Cambridge supported by Capco
The University of Cambridge has launched a new three-year research and fellow programme led by the Department of Land Economy on the topic of ‘Future Cities’. The programme, supported by London property company Capital and Counties Properties PLC (Capco), comprises an annual conference, a visiting fellowship by an expert in the field, and a grant for eight postgraduate fellows to conduct bespoke research on issues shaping future cities and related policy.
Call for Papers - Real Estate Finance and Investment Symposium
The University of Cambridge, the University of Florida, and the National University of Singapore announce a call for papers for their joint 2016 Real Estate Finance and Investment Symposium, 23rd to 24th September in Cambridge.
Domain Name Scarcity
'Sorry Kids, all the good usernames are gone' - A recent column in The Financial Times quotes from the latest paper on domain name scarcity by Thies Lindenthal of Cambridge Real Estate Research Centre, Department of Land Economy at The University of Cambridge.
Cornell International Real Estate Case Competition
A team of six final year undergraduates went to New York to take part in the Cornell Real Estate Case Competition in early November and described it as, "a fantastic learning opportunity"
New CRERC research: Connections are more important than performance
A new study by Dr Franz Fuerst of CRERC and Sebastian Krautz, a visiting scholar at the Cambridge Real Estate Research Centre, shows that connections and company size are more important for successful fundraising in the private equity real estate sector than skill and performance track records.
