Dr Yi Wu
Lecturer in Real Estate Economics
BSc Real Estate Director
BSc Real Estate with Foundation Director
BSc Real Estate Finance Director
Specialisms
- Housing economics,
- Corporate finance,
- Property technology (Proptech)
Location
Dr Yi Wu is a Lecturer in Real Estate Economics and UG Programme Director for BSc Real Estate, BSc Real Estate with Foundation and BSc Real Estate Finance, specialising in housing economics and corporate finance . Dr Wu joined Henley Business School from Bayes Business School (formerly Cass Business School) as Lecturer in Real Estate. Dr. Wu spent time as a visiting scholar at the University of San Diego and the National University of Singapore. She also worked as a consultant at Yuexiu, a Hong Kong–based real estate investment trust, and CHER AMI Investment Group, a Guangzhou–based private fund.
Dr Wu was appointed the chair of the Society of Property Researchers (SPR) and chair of RED Foundation Data Research & Academia Steering Group in 2023, co-chair of Global Women in Society in 2022. She has good connections with the real estate industry, including Knight Frank, Co-Star, CBRE, JLL, MSCI, and BNP Paribas Real Estate. Dr Wu was honoured as the Lincoln Young Scholar in 2017 and a Distinguished PhD in AREUEA in 2016.
Her research focus is housing economics, corporate finance and property technology. Her publications appear in Regional Studies, Real Estate Economics, Applied Economics, International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis and the Journal of Risk and Financial Management and social media, such as The Conversation. She has led many research funding projects, such as a UKRI Accelerated Knowledge Transfer to Innovate (AKT2I) grant in 2022, several Reading Real Estate Foundation (RREF) seed funding, a Prosperity and Resilience Pump-priming grant from the University of Reading, a City Pumping Prime Grant from City, University of London and a research grant from European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA).
Dr Wu serves in Editorial Board in Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management and a reviewer for many top academic journals. She is a regular presenter at major international real estate conferences, including the AREUEA conference, UEA Annual conference, ARES annual conference, ERES annual conference and AsRES conference.
Currently, Dr Wu is working on research projects about homeownership, ESG impact, residential location preferences, migration and media effects using big data and machine learning. She is currently working on a business project about big data and machine learning in location decision with Placemake. IO and DataScience Service GmbH.
Welcome for innovated PhD applicants, who are interested in the field of housing or ESG using big data with good quantitative skills.
Qualifications
- PhD in Corporate Finance and Investment
- ARGUS Enterprise Certificate
Current PhD Student
- Amirhousein Bakhshi: Big Data in Housing
Completed PhD Students
- Matthew Pollock: Herding in housing market, lecturer in Economics and Finance of Real Estate at The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, UCL
- Cornelia Agyenim-Boateng: International buyer in UK housing market, Fellow in Real Estate Economics and Finance at London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Dr Yi WuIndependent Study in Real Estate
The aim of this module is to integrate and apply both core and specialised knowledge obtained in the MSc Real Estate Programme and to demonstrate originality in the understanding and...
Real Estate Economics
This module covers the economic principles underlying land and property markets, as well as the economics of land markets....
Real Estate Economics
This module covers the economic principles underlying urban and rural economics, planning, and real estate commercial and residential markets....
Reading Real Estate Foundation (RREF) seed funding in 2023, Title: Property markets and places of worship: the impact of heritage listed churches on local property values
Accelerated Knowledge Transfer to Innovate (AKT2I) grant from UKRI in 2022. Title: Big data in location decision
Reading Real Estate Foundation (RREF) seed funding in 2022, Title: Roles of industry experts’ media sentiment in the UK REITs ESG Initiatives
Reading Real Estate Foundation (RREF) seed funding in 2021, Title: Housing Preferences and migration in a post pandemic future;
Reading Real Estate Foundation (RREF) seed funding in 2020, Title: Impact of media on real estate markets: media coverage identification and machine learning in news articles
Prosperity and Resilience Pump-priming grant from University of Reading in 2020. Title: Generation and Immigration Housing Preferences in UK and US
City Pumping Prime Grant from City, University of London in 2018. Title: Application of Deep Learning in Real Estate Mutual Funds
Research grant from European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA) in 2017.Title: Impact of Share Buyback and Special Dividend Programmes on European REIT Stock Prices
How communities can protect and revitalise their heritage in gentrifying neighbourhoods
https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/revitalising-heritage-in-gentrifying-neighbourhoods/
Specialisms
- Housing economics
- Corporate finance
- Property technology (Proptech)
Location
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