Research on real estate within the Centre and the department is broad ranging and international in scope. The Centre's current main areas of research activity relate to:
- Analysis of real estate investment vehicles
- The interaction of real asset and credit/capital markets
- The role and performance of real assets in investment portfolios
- Loan and mortgage finance
- Sustainability and environmental performance
- Urban development and interaction with real estate
- Digital and machine learning technology and its use in real estate
- Behavioural influences in finance
Current and recent research projects can be found in the Working Papers section.
PhD Successes
In line with our aim to foster researchers, there are a number of PhD students currently associated with the Centre:
Yana Akhytrs’Ka: How can energy data analytics platforms affect small firms? A study of a reduction in energy use in the service sector and its spillover effects.
Thuqan AlHindawi: Can BD/ML techniques enhance RE markets’ transparency by providing a more efficient/robust way to examine the risk/return profile of real estate as an asset class?
Mark Burke: Emerging market GAP Housing: A comparative investigation of financing models for sustainable development in resource constrained environments.
Marco Felici: Empirical questions in Housing Markets and Policy. Haotong Li: Overconfidence and real estate investment.
Chunming Meng: Do REITS investors and firms exhibit myopic loss aversion?
Yiwen Qiu: Firm Locations, Industrial Structures, Regional Development Paths from a Dynamic Perspective: A case study in China.
Xinwei Wan: Property Market Sentiment, Government Land Sales and NAV Discount in REITS Valuation. Liangqi Wu: Urbanisation and Fiscal Risks in China.
