Staff Profile:Dr Anupam Nanda

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Dr Anupam Nanda

Job Title:
Lecturer in Real Estate Economics and Finance

Responsibilities:
Package Director for Investment and Finance, BSc Real Estate
Associate Programme Director, MSc Real Estate

Areas of Interest:
Dynamic interactions across urban and regional markets; Housing market dynamics and forecasting; Economic and econometric analysis of regulation; Economics of sustainability and corporate social responsibility; Applied econometrics.

Research groups / Centres:
Centre for Real Estate Research 

Qualifications
PhD in Economics, University of Connecticut, USA
PGDBA in Finance, ICFAI Business School, India
MSc in Economics, University of Calcutta, India
BSc (Hons) in Economics, St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, India

Affiliations
Urban Economics Association

Profile
Dr Anupam Nanda is Lecturer in Real Estate Economics and Finance, and Associate Programme Director for full-time MSc Real Estate at the University of Reading, UK. Previously, he worked with the Market Intelligence group of Deloitte & Touche in Mumbai, where his focus area covered real estate and private equity sectors. He was at the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) in Washington DC, as Senior Research Economist, where his responsibilities included developing and implementing housing market research studies and was a member of the team forecasting state and metro area housing markets in US. Prior to joining NAHB, he worked as a graduate research assistant at the University of Connecticut, USA.

Anupam has also taught undergraduate Economics and Public Finance at the University of Connecticut during his graduate studies. His research areas include: dynamic interactions across urban and regional markets; housing market dynamics and forecasting; economic and econometric analysis of regulation; economics of sustainability and corporate social responsibility; applied econometrics. His teaching areas include: real estate economics; housing market analysis; quantitative methods.

 

Published Research

"Household Attributes and the Future Demand for Retirement Housing". Accepted. (with Ball, M.). International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis.

"The Impact of Property Condition Disclosure Laws on Housing Prices: Evidence from an Event Study Using Propensity Scores" Forthcoming. (with Ross, S.). The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics.

"Housing Markets and Independence in Old Age: Expanding the Opportunities". 2011. (with Ball, M, Blanchette, R., Wyatt, P., Yeh, J.). This independent report was sponsored by retirement property developers McCarthy & Stone Retirement Lifestyles Limited.

"Real Estate Brokers' Duties to Their Clients: Why Some States Mandate Minimum Service Requirements". 2010. (with Pancak, K.). Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), PD&R. Volume 12, Number 2, Pages 105-126.

"Property Condition Disclosure Law: Why Did States Mandate 'Seller Tell All'?". 2008. The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Volume 37, Issue 2, Pages 131-146.

"Which School Attributes Matter? The Influence of School District Performance and Demographic Composition on Property Values". 2008. (with Clapp, J., Ross, S.) Journal of Urban Economics, Volume 63, Issue 2, March 2008, Pages 451-466.

"Examining the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI)". 2007. Housing Economics. National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), Washington DC.

 

Research Projects in Progress

"The Impact of Minimum Services Laws on Real Estate Brokerage Competitive Intensity". (with Clapp, J., Pancak, K.)

"Can Sentiment Surveys Pre-empt Real Estate Market Activities?" (with Marcato, G.)

"Do Responsible Real Estate Companies Outperform Their Peers?" (with Cajias, M., Fuerst, F., McAllister, P.)

"Analysis of the Intermediate Housing Market Mechanism in the UK". (with Parker, G.)

"Does Regional Infrastructure Investment Stimulate Extra Housing and Commercial Building Supply? Long-Run Evidence across the English Regions". (with Ball, M.)

"How Accurately Do Investors' Attitudes Forecast Demand-Supply Mismatch across Real Estate Sectors?" (with Marcato, G.)

"Dynamic Analysis of House Price Diffusion across Asian Financial Centres" (with Yeh, J.)

"Sectoral and Spatial Spillover Effects of Infrastructure Investment: A Case Study of Bangalore, India". (with Tiwari, P.)

"On the Efficacy of Legal Rulemaking in Real Estate Industry"

"An Early Warning System in Housing Market: Measures of Demand-Supply Mismatch".

"Immigrants and their Economic Outcomes: Case of Ethnic Networking in Britain"

 

Research Grants

"The Shared Ownership Model and Housing Market Dynamics", University of Reading, RETF Small Grants Pump-Priming Awards, 2011.

"Investigation of the linkages between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), asset selection and financial performance", (with Fuerst, F., McAllister, P.), Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Education Trust, 2011.

"Sectoral and Spatial Spillover Effects of Infrastructure Investment: A Case Study of Bangalore, India", (with Tiwari, P.), Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Education Trust, 2011.

"Why Should We Use Sentiment Surveys to Pre-empt Economic Activities? A Fresh Look at Residential and Commercial Real Estate Markets", (with Marcato, G.), Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Education Trust, 2010.

 

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