Staff Profile:Dr Peter Wyatt

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Dr Peter Wyatt

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Senior Lecturer

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Centre for Real Estate Research (CRER)

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Profile

Dr Wyatt is a Chartered Valuation Surveyor who has conducted extensive teaching, consultancy and research in land management and valuation. He has developed and delivered university and training programmes at all levels (undergraduate, graduate and professional practice). He is involved in international land management projects and has a thorough knowledge of the theory and application of valuation and the use of GIS technology for valuation purposes. He has extensive experience of course development, has delivered training and short courses in the UK and overseas and has published two text books. Current research projects include the investigation of energy performance of non-domestic building stock, mapping the sustainability of business locations and examining transport-related CO₂ emissions associated with city centre and out-of-town office locations. Pete has held positions on committees and panels of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the Society of Property Researchers and has organised and delivered seminars and training events at the London HQs and Regional Branches, as well as papers at the annual conference of the Royal Geographical Society.

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) Estate Management
• PhD 'Identifying the spatial component of retail property values'

Affiliations

• Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the British Council for Offices
• Member of the RICS/SPR/AGI inter-disciplinary Special Interest Group for Geographic Information and past chair of the Geographic and Land Information Management Panel at the RICS
• Editorial Board Member for RICS Books and the Journal of Property Investment and Finance
• Referee for the Economic and Social Research Council, the International Journal of Geographic Information Science, Environment & Planning B, Building Research & Information and the Journal of Property Valuation and Investment
• External Examiner for Dublin Institute of Technology, Northumbria University and the University of Reading
• PhD examiner (1), MPhil examiner (1), PhD supervisor (2 - current)
• Short course delivery at various academic institutions (including Cambridge University and the College of Estate Management), to government (Ordnance Survey and various local authorities) and private practice (Alder King, Phoenix Beard, King Sturge)

Recent Key Publications

Katyoka, M. and Wyatt, P. (2008) An investigation of the nature of vacant commercial and industrial property, Planning Practice & Research, 23, 1, 125-145

Wyatt, P. (2008) Empty dwellings: the use of council tax records in identifying and monitoring vacant private housing in England, Environment and Planning A, 40, 1171-1184

Wyatt, P. (2007) Property Valuation, Blackwell, Oxford, UK, pp 411, ISBN 978-1-4051-3045-5

Bruhns, H., Harrison, A., Neffendorf, H., Wyatt, P. and Yeoman, B. (2006) Technical report: Development of commercial and industrial vacancy statistics, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, London, March

Wyatt, P. (2004) Constructing a land-use database from public domain information in England, Planning Practice & Research, 19(2), 147-171

Myers, D. and Wyatt, P. (2004) Rethinking urban capacity: identifying and appraising vacant buildings, Building Research & Information, 32(4), 285-292, ISSN 0961-3218

Bruhns, H., Harrison, A., Neffendorf, H., Wyatt, P. and Yeoman, B. (2003) Developing alternative data sources for a national assessment of previously developed land, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, London, July

Bruhns, H., Harrison, A., Neffendorf, H., Wyatt, P. and Yeoman, B. (2003) A pilot study to obtain improved information on land and building vacancies, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, London, March

Wyatt, P. and Ralphs, M. (2003) GIS in Land and Property Management, Spon Press, London, pp 390, ISBN 0 415 24065 4 (pbk) and 0 415 24065 6

Bretten, J. and Wyatt, P. (2002) Variance in property valuations for commercial lending, RICS Research Paper, 6(3), Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors pp19

Wyatt, P. (2002) Creation of an urban land use database, Research Report, The Education Trust of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, November, pp 51

Duhr, S., Hull, A., McGill, J., Wrigley, M. and Wyatt, P. (2002) Review of land use planning indicators, Wales Planning Research Programme, Welsh Assembly Government, June, pp 65

Bretten, J. and Wyatt, P. (2001) Variance in commercial property valuations: an empirical study, Journal of Property Investment and Finance, 19(3), 267-282

Wyatt, P. (2001) An investigation of the nature of the valuation service offered to business occupiers, Journal of Property Investment and Finance, 19(2), 100-126

Wyatt, P. (2001) Property advice for business occupiers: from asset valuation to business property appraisal, RICS Research Paper, 6(2), Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, pp 33, electronic ref: PSO404

Research and Consultancy

Research consultant for EU and UK National, Regional and Local Government, executive agencies of government, non-governmental organisations, charities and private practice

Collaborated with academic institutions and private practice including University College London, Bristol University, University of East London, Ordnance Survey, BlomInfo (Sweden), Environmental Research Systems Institute (US), Landmark Information Group, LandInform Ltd, Geofutures, Katalysis, Henderson Global Investors and various independent consultants

Projects

'Analysing the effects of energy performance certification on commercial real estate values: constructing a data framework', 2009, RICS Education (7,500)

Collaborative investigator on 'Non-Domestic Energy Energy Efficiency Database' project NEED project, 2009, funded by the UK Department for Energy and Climate Change (£12,000

Joint project manager and valuation expert for 'Land titling and land registration programme' St Vincent & the Grenadines, 2008-9, funded by the European Union, (360,000 euros)

Project manager for 'Sustainability of office occupation' King Sturge Property Consultants and the University of the West of England, 2007-9 (£60,000)

Project manager for 'Development of a methodology for assessing land and property costs for the National Care Homes Placement Toolkit' South East and South West Centres of Excellence, 2007 (£5,000)

Valuation expert for 'Development of an electronic service delivery framework for the Geodetic and Cartographic Office of the Government of the Slovak Republic' European Union, 2007 (250,000 euros)

Lead contractor and project manager for 'Mapping sustainability indicators' South West Regional Development Agency, Geofutures Consultancy, University of Bath and the University of the West of England, 2006-9 (£90,000)

Lead contractor and project manager for 'Development of hereditament-level vacancy statistics' Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, 2005 (£39,620)

Researcher for 'Identifying vacant buildings - pilot study for a domestic vacancy information system' Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, 2005-6 (£85,000)

Researcher for 'Construction data for South Coast Offices' Ove Arup, 2004 (£4,800)

Sub-contractor (£23,000) and research consultant for 'Research Consultancy on Land Use', Office for the Deputy Prime Minister, 2003/04, total contract value £125,725

Lead contractor and project manager for 'Undertaking a pilot study to evaluate the feasibility of monitoring previously developed land in Wales' Welsh Assembly Government, 2003-4 (£41,800)

Lead contractor and project manager for 'Developing alternative data sources for a national assessment of previously-developed land' Office for the Deputy Prime Minister, 2003 (£44,000)

Lead contractor and project manager for 'A pilot study to obtain improved information on land and building vacancies' Office for the Deputy Prime Minister, 2002-5 (£97,000)

Short Course Organiser and Course Leader for valuation course to Albanian government valuers, Ordnance Survey (£10,500)

Land management expert for 'Review of Land Use Planning Indicators' Welsh Assembly Government, 2002 (£60,000)

Project manager for 'Creation of an urban land use database' RICS Education Trust, 2002 (£4,000)

Project manager for 'Creation of a commercial property data directory' Society of Property Researchers, 1999-2000 (£5,000)

Project manager for 'Valuations for Business Occupiers' RICS and the Pat Allsop Charitable Trust, 1999-2000 (£12,000)

Project manager for 'The application of value maps to property valuation using a geographical information system (GIS): a pilot study' RICS Education Trust, 1998-1999 (£5,000)