Staff Profile:Professor Peter Byrne

Name:

Professor Peter Byrne

Job Title:

Professor of Real Estate Dynamics

Responsibilities:

Director of Postgraduate Research Studies

Areas of Interest:

Research groups / Centres:

Centre for Real Estate Research

Publications:

Qualifications:

BA Geography Manchester

Profile

Peter started life as a Geographer, and still regards himself as a 'proper' Geographer. As a real estate academic however, he has had a long standing interest in the measurement of risk and uncertainty and their impact on both real estate development and investment. He also has a strong interest with the way that real estate markets work over time. Peter is the Director of Postgraduate Research in the School. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of both the Journal of Property Research and the Journal of Property Investment & Finance.

Selected Publications

Byrne, P.J. and Lee, S.L. Spatial concentration in institutional investment in the UK: Some comparisons between the retail and office sectors. Journal of Property Investment & Finance, 27, 1, 2009, 5-24

Byrne, P.J. Fuzzy Logic. In: Garrett, I. (ed) Finance, vol. iv, The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Management 2nd edition. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005, 87-88.

Byrne, P.J. and Lee, S.L. The Impact of Real Estate on the Terminal Wealth of U.K. Mixed-Asset Portfolios: 1972 - 2001. Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management, 11(2), 2005, 133-145.

Byrne, P.J. and Lee, S.L. Different Risk Measures: Different Portfolio Compositions? Journal of Property Investment & Finance, 22(6), 2004, 501-511

Byrne, P. and Lee, S. An Exploration of the Relationship Between Size, Diversification and Risk in UK Real Estate Portfolios: 1989-1999, Journal of Property Research, 20(2), 2003, 191-206.

Byrne, P., Lizieri, C., and Worzala, E. The Location of Executive Suites and Business Centers in the United States. Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management, 8(3), 2002, 254-270.