Real Estate Economics and Finance Society

REEF Society Speaker Series: David Branch

Speaker: David Branch (Stone)

New powerful platform models in real estate and in hospitality are key drivers of disruption in distribution today.

David will share the key drivers of these changes and how they influence and drive new business models and what it means for the stakeholders.

The Challenges and Opportunities of Building Retrofit for Energy Efficiency

Speaker: Ruth Thompson (University of Melbourne)

This talk will look to explore the opportunities and challenges in retrofitting built space for improved operational energy efficiency.

The Legacy of COVID-19 on Urban Property Markets

Speakers: Prof Paul Cheshire, Prof Henry Overman, Prof Christian Hilber, Dr Lindsay Relihan 

An expert panel of LSE scholars discuss how COVID-19 will impact real estate markets in large cities.

The future of real estate: Innovate or Die

Speaker: Eden Dwek (BSc Geography with Economics, 2010)

Eden Dwek will explore the changes in tenant expectations, and what landlords should be doing to ensure they don't get left behind.

REEF Society Speaker Series: hotel repositioning during COVID-19 pandemic

Speakers: Nick Cullen (CEO of BCP Capital), Paul Nearchou (Director and Head of Northern Europe at Deutsche Finance International). 

How do investors reposition hotels during the COVID-19 pandemic? REEF alumni Paul Nearchou and Nick Cullen , who have co-invested in various real estate projects in the UK and Ireland, will share their insights. Based on a case study of a hotel re-positioning project, you will learn about real estate investment and risk management during the pandemic.

REEF Society speaker series: The interplay of politics and housing markets

Speaker: Philipp Voswinkel (Country Manager for the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB), Paris - REEF Alumni, 2000)

Chair: Prof Paul Cheshire, LSE

Philipp Voswinkel will discuss the interplay of politics and the public and private housing markets drawing on the experience in Berlin, Germany.

REEF Society speaker series: Real Estate During & Post COVID of the US real estate market

Speaker: David Ruttenberg (Managing Partner at Ruttenberg Gordon – REEF Alumni 2004)

This lecture is a general discussion on the state of the US real estate market during the first phase of COVID. The lecture will discuss what the real estate market looks like after COVID with an emphasis on COVID being the Great Accelerator.

The Price of Risk: planning, infrastructure and community building

Speaker: Peter Freeman (Co-founder of Argent)

Peter Freeman will argue that long-term, institutional investors should support mixed-use, master-planned developments because their social and commercial aims create value and reduce risk. 

Market exuberance and exploiting legal norms in real estate finance – 'twas ever thus?

Speaker: Damian Perry (Consultant to Clifford Chance)

Damian Perry’s talk will focus on market ‘irrationality and exuberance’ leading up to the last financial crisis (2003-8) and the regulatory over-reaction that followed (2008-2015). He will then look at legal structures in the real estate debt markets that have recently emerged which are again at risk of being misused in a rising market.

Podcast available here. Slides available here. 

Britain’s Housing Crisis: causes and cures

Speaker: Prof Christian Hilber 

In his inaugural lecture, Prof Hilber will explain how Britain’s planning system and tax policy cause the country’s housing crisis and contribute to rising inequality. He will explore how we can do better. 

Listen to the podcast.