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Welcome to the Real Estate & Planning Research Seminar Series

For Semester 1, 2024 and Semester 2, 2025.

Our Seminar series will be held face to face and online.

If you would like to attend one of our Seminars or for further information, please contact: REPSchoolOffice@henley.ac.uk.

Semester 1, 2024

Date / Time

Presenter & Affiliation / Seminar Title

Wednesday 9th October 2024

Jingheng Huang (Real Estate & Planning, University of Reading)

Title: “Governance and Justice: how formal arrangements and informal concessions combine to alleviate inter-ethnic prejudices ”.

This event will be held in person (INTERNAL SEMINAR ONLY)

Wednesday 16th October 2024

Prof Yanos Zylberberg (University of Bristol)

Title: " The Death and Life of Great British Cities"

This event will be held in person (Presenter will be visiting us in person)

Wednesday 13th November 2024

Prof Rose Lai (University of Macau)

Title: "Under the radar: The role of subsidiaries in concealing political connections in Chinese land transactions"

This event will be held in person (Presenter will be visiting us in person)

Wednesday 20th November 2024

Leonardo Ricaurte (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Early Stage Researcher, School of the Built Environment, University of Reading)

Title: “Design that expands capabilities: Assessing the social value of the housing block”

This event will be held in person (Presenter will be visiting us in person)

(INTERNAL SEMINAR ONLY)

Friday 22nd November 2024

Prof Brent W. Ambrose (Pennsylvania State University)

Title: "Credit Market Spillover Effects to the Real Economy: Evidence from Rental Housing Evictions"

This event will be held in person (Presenter will be visiting us in person)

Wednesday 27th November 2024

Dr Davide Luca (University of Cambridge)

Title: “Divided we spend: Brexit and the polarisation of consumer economic behaviours ”.

This event will be held in person (Presenter will be visiting us in person)

Wednesday 4th December 2024

Dr Stefania Fiorentino (University of Cambridge)

Title: “The Regeneration of left-behind places: the case of coastal towns in England”

This event will be held in person (Presenter will be visiting us in person)



Semester 2, 2025

Date / Time

Presenter & Affiliation / Seminar Title

Wednesday 12th February 2025

Dr Ricardo Lopez (University of Syracuse)

Title: “TBC”

This event will be held in person (Presenter will be online)

Wednesday 19th February 2025

Dr Jing Guan (Beijing Technology and Business University)

Title: " TBC "

This event will be held in person (Presenter will be visiting us in person)

Wednesday 26th February 2025

Prof Tobias Wenzel (University of Düsseldorf)

Title: “TBC”

This event will be held in person (Presenter will be visiting us in person)

Wednesday 12th March 2025

Dr Xiaolun Yu (Real Estate & Planning, University of Reading)

Title: “Regulatory tax and housing markets: Theory and Evidence from China”

This event will be held in person (INTERNAL SEMINAR ONLY)

Wednesday 19th March 2025

Dr Rainer Schulz (University of Aberdeen)

Title: “TBC”

This event will be held in person (Presenter will be visiting us in person)

Wednesday 26th March 2025

Dr Felipe Carozzi (London School of Economics)

Title: "TBC"

This event will be held in person (Presenter will be visiting us in person)

Wednesday 23rd April 2025

Dr Lukas Makovsky (Real Estate & Planning, University of Reading)

Title: “Justice in Greenbelt: Effects of UK planning restrictions on migration choices, gentrification and local economic development”.

This event will be held in person (INTERNAL SEMINAR ONLY)

Wednesday 30th April 2025

Dr Yushi Peng (University of Tilburg)

Title: “TBC”

This event will be held in person (Presenter will be visiting us in person)

Wednesday 14th May 2025

Dr Ji Hei Lee (University of Reading Malaysia)

Title: “Climate Change, Housing and Subjective Wellbeing

This event will be held in person (Presenter will be visiting us in person)

Wednesday 21st May 2025

Prof Alex Lord (University of Liverpool)

Title: “TBC”

This event will be held in person (Presenter will be visiting us in person)




View our previous schedule of Seminars here :

Spring Term 2024

Date / Time

Presenter & Affiliation / Seminar Title

Wednesday 10th January 2024

Mr David Hearne (University of Birmingham)

Title: "Do Bicycle Networks Have Economic Value? A Hedonic Application to Greater Manchester"

This event will be held in person (Presenter will be visiting us in person)

Wednesday 17th January 2024

Fengting Zhang, (Doctoral Researcher in Real Estate & Planning, University of Reading)

Title: “The Herding Behaviour of Analysts: Evidence from Stock Recommendations and Segmented Dual-Class Shares.”

This event will be held in person (INTERNAL SEMINAR ONLY)

Wednesday 24th January 2024

Dr Enrico Vanino (University of Sheffield)

Title: "Renewable Energy Transition and the Local Economic Development of Lagging-behind Regions: Evidence from Offshore Wind Energy in the UK"

This event will be held in person (Presenter will be visiting us in person)

Wednesday 31st January 2024

Professor Stefano Colombo (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)

Title: Strategic anonymity and behavior-based pricing

This event will be held in person (Presenter will be visiting us in person)

Wednesday 7th February 2024

Dr Brano Glumac (University of Reading)

Title: “ The Effects of Land Plot Shape on Urban Land Price”

This event will be held in person (INTERNAL SEMINAR ONLY)

Wednesday 21st February 2024

Professor Christian Hilber – (London School of Economics LSE)

Title: “Structural Density and Homeownership.”

This event will be held in person (Presenter will be visiting us in person)

Wednesday 28th February 2024

Dr Christopher Maidment (University of Reading

Title: “Trust, Stewardship & Simplified Planning.”

This event will be held in person (INTERNAL SEMINAR ONLY)

Wednesday 6th March 2024

Professor Alex Lord (University of Liverpool)

Title: “TBC”

This event will be held in person (Presenter will be visiting us in person)

Wednesday 13th March 2024

Dr Edward Yiu (University of Auckland)

Title: The heterogeneous impacts of widespread upzoning: Lessons from Auckland, New Zealand

Professor Paavo Monkkonen (UCLA)

Title: Built Out Cities? A New Approach to Measuring Land Use Regulation

Wednesday 20th March 2024

Professor Thies Lindenthal (University of Cambridge)

Title: “TBC”

This event will be held in person (Presenter will be visiting us in person)


Autumn Term 2023

Date / Time

Presenter & Affiliation / Seminar Title

Wednesday 4th October 2023

Dr Nan Liu (University of Aberdeen)

Title: “Occupier profile and the ESG agenda in commercial real estate”

This event will be held in person (Presenter will be visiting us in person)

Wednesday 11th October 2023

Prof Richard Dunning (University of Liverpool)

Title: " Mobile (park) home (de-)financialization through England’s history "

This event will be held in person (Presenter will be visiting us in person)

Wednesday 18th October 2023

Dr Rodolfo Sejas-Portillo (London School of Economics)

Title: “The effect of weather on the willingness to pay for residential energy-efficiency”

This event will be held in person (Presenter will be visiting us in person) (INTERNAL SEMINAR ONLY)

Wednesday 8th November 2023

Gordon Seabright & Gemma Dean (Creative Land Trust)

Title: “Creative Land Trust: Making Space for Art”

This event will be held in person (Presenters will be visiting us in person)

Wednesday 15th November 2023

Dr Daniel Galland ( Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark )

Title: "Planning without the clock in a world out-of-sync: Temporal mismatches and regional planning deliberations"

This event will be held in person (Presenter will be visiting us in person)

Wednesday 22nd November 2023

Dr Lukas Makovsky (Real Estate & Planning, University of Reading)

Title: “TBC ”.

This event will be held in person (INTERNAL SEMINAR ONLY)

Wednesday 29th November 2023

Dr Yi Wu (Real Estate & Planning, University of Reading)

Title: “TBC”

This event will be held in person (INTERNAL SEMINAR ONLY)

Wednesday 6th December 2023

Prof Tobias Seidel (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

Title: “Optimal minimum wages in spatial economies

This event will be held in person (Presenter will be visiting us in person)