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 students currently associated with the Centre and their projects are:
- 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?
- Flors Blok: Alpine land and climate change: A Ricardian Analysis
- Mark Burke: Emerging market GAP Housing: A comparative investigation of financing models for sustainable development in resource constrained environments
- Maximilian Exler: Real Estate Investment Trusts in Bear Markets: To What Extent Drivers of Returns and Volatility Change in Times of High Uncertainty
- Marco Felici: Empirical questions in Housing Markets and Policy
- Kahshin Leow: Spatial dependencies and their effects on real estate funds
- Haotong Li: Overconfidence and real estate investment
- Anando Maitra: Corporate Bonds and Equities: the cross-section of flows
- Katharina Minkow: How does technological infrastructure impact on rents, sales prices, and occupancy rates of office buildings in the UK?
- Yiwen Qiu: Firm Locations, Industrial Structures, Regional Development Paths from a Dynamic Perspective: A case study in China
- Saad Siddiqui: International asset pricing, housing and consumption
- He Tang: Political Uncertainty in The Real Estate Industry
- Xinwei Wan: Property Market Sentiment, Government Land Sales and NAV Discount in REITS Valuation
- Jiabin Wei: Dynamic Prediction of the Real Estate Price Spatial Distribution in the Autonomous Vehicle Era with Hedonic Regression and Reinforcement Learning-aided Microsimulation Integrated Model — A Case Study of Shanghai