Real Estate Markets and their Regulation

This research cluster is grounded in the economic/financial analysis of real estate markets to assess and analyse to which extent markets deliver equal, diverse and inclusive outcomes.

Overview

It is predicted that three-quarters of the world population will be urban by 2050, making more sustainable real estate development, investment, land and resource use, and spatial planning, critically important to deliver pressing environmental, social and governance priorities. Notwithstanding local institutional factors and geographical specificities, most of the global urbanization process happens in the context of increasingly complex market economies and more specifically at the intersection of local real estate and international financial markets. Our research cluster is grounded in the economic/financial analysis of real estate markets in order to assess and analyse to which extent markets deliver equal, diverse and inclusive outcomes, with a specific goal to draw lessons for the design of planning policies and regulatory frameworks.

We are interested in the analysis of a broad spectrum of topical issues which are relevant for pressing policy debates:

• House prices and their affordability,
• The changing nature of office and retail markets,
• Financial forces affecting land markets and real estate development processes,
• Evolving industry practices.

People

Dr Tommaso Gabrieli, The Bartlett School of Planning
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Outputs

The primary activity for the first year will be the organization of a “research for policy” seminar series involving the many researchers working on Real Estate related themes across BSP, faculty, and UCL, helping to foster debates and collaborations across UCL. We envisage a unique role as a research cluster fostering the exchange of policy-oriented research done by different units and research centres across the Bartlett faculty and the wider UCL research community on issues related to urban planning and policy, the future of cities, and sustainable urbanization. We plan thematic seminars with a presentation from a UCL expert speaker, and a following discussion with critical questions from another academic expert and an expert from practice. The presentation would focus on research-lead policy ideas, the discussion would be critical and tackle issues around 1) financial/economic feasibility of the policy idea, 2) political opposition, 3) implementation issues.

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