Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (20)

Regulation and accreditation of surveying professions – USA and UK - challenges going forward (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Wiejak-Roy, G., & Edwards, D. (2023, October). Regulation and accreditation of surveying professions – USA and UK - challenges going forward. Paper presented at FIG Commission 2 and 7 Annual Meeting - Digital Transformation for Responsible Land Administration, Deventer, the Netherlands

Surveying professions play an important role in ensuring the preservation and protection of land and property rights. Governments across the world are changing their approaches to protect the public. Some keep leaning toward market deregulation wit... Read More about Regulation and accreditation of surveying professions – USA and UK - challenges going forward.

The opacity of the allotment gardens market in Warsaw, Poland (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Wiejak-Roy, G. (2023, October). The opacity of the allotment gardens market in Warsaw, Poland. Paper presented at FIG Commission 2 and 7 Annual Meeting - Digital Transformation for Responsible Land Administration, Deventer, the Netherlands

Allotment gardens are a well-established phenomenon in Central and Eastern Europe. Their users, predominantly in towns, through the cultivation of land and care for the green space, create green oases in now busy urban areas. As such these locations... Read More about The opacity of the allotment gardens market in Warsaw, Poland.

Allotment gardens in Warsaw, Poland – from fruit and veg to designed huts (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Wiejak-Roy, G., & Mazur, R. (2023, August). Allotment gardens in Warsaw, Poland – from fruit and veg to designed huts. Presented at Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society - 2023 Conference, Ipswich, UK

Allotment gardens are a well-established phenomenon in Central and Eastern Europe. Their users, predominantly in towns, through cultivation of land and care for the green space, create green oases in now busy urban areas. As such these locations now... Read More about Allotment gardens in Warsaw, Poland – from fruit and veg to designed huts.

Feeling the Earthship house: Eliciting a perspective of posterity through immersive virtual reality (2023)
Journal Article
Sudhakaran, G., Prabhakaran, A., Mahamadu, A. M., Booth, C. A., & Wiejak Roy, G. (in press). Feeling the Earthship house: Eliciting a perspective of posterity through immersive virtual reality. Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, https://doi.org/10.1108/SASBE-05-2023-0122

Purpose: The surging cost of living and shortage of affordable and sustainable homes fuel the global housing crisis. Earthship buildings are marketed as the epitome of affordable and sustainable alternative housing. This paper aimed to elicit the per... Read More about Feeling the Earthship house: Eliciting a perspective of posterity through immersive virtual reality.

Role of local landlords in small-town high streets – a study of Trowbridge, UK (2023)
Journal Article
Armstrong, K., & Wiejak-Roy, G. (in press). Role of local landlords in small-town high streets – a study of Trowbridge, UK. Infrastructure Asset Management, https://doi.org/10.1680/jinam.23.00014

High streets are a vital part of national identity and infrastructure. Responses to high street decline need to encourage stakeholder engagement. The prominence of local retail landlords as a key potential stakeholder group in smaller towns has been... Read More about Role of local landlords in small-town high streets – a study of Trowbridge, UK.

Gifts, gratuities, and hospitality in business development practices - the perceptions of stakeholders within the alternative real estate lending market (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Wiejak-Roy, G., & Williams, A. (2023, July). Gifts, gratuities, and hospitality in business development practices - the perceptions of stakeholders within the alternative real estate lending market. Presented at 29th ERES Annual Conference, London, UK

The prevalent use of gifts, gratuities, and hospitality in the alternative real estate lending markets as part of business development practices has been observed, with the nature, scale, and type of such offerings varying significantly. With no form... Read More about Gifts, gratuities, and hospitality in business development practices - the perceptions of stakeholders within the alternative real estate lending market.

Recycling English town centres – from retail to healthcare: surveys, views and next steps (2023)
Journal Article
Wiejak-Roy, G., & Hunter, G. (in press). Recycling English town centres – from retail to healthcare: surveys, views and next steps. Journal of European Real Estate Research, https://doi.org/10.1108/JERER-01-2023-0002

Purpose: Many town centres in England exhibit high retail property vacancies and require regeneration. Several alternatives for the replacement of town centre retail (TCR) have been suggested, one of which is healthcare. The healthcare sector in Engl... Read More about Recycling English town centres – from retail to healthcare: surveys, views and next steps.

Stakeholder opinions of implementing environmental management systems in the construction sector of the U.S (2023)
Journal Article
Beck Schildt, J. C., Booth, C. A., Horry, R. E., & Wiejak-Roy, G. (2023). Stakeholder opinions of implementing environmental management systems in the construction sector of the U.S. Buildings, 13(5), Article 1241. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13051241

Environmental concerns over the effects of construction sector activities necessitate meaningful measures to be taken. Despite worldwide increases in the uptake of environmental management systems (EMS), implementation of EMS across the construction... Read More about Stakeholder opinions of implementing environmental management systems in the construction sector of the U.S.

Alumni engagement for learner engagement and career planning: Real estate alumni engagement (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Wiejak-Roy, G. (2023, April). Alumni engagement for learner engagement and career planning: Real estate alumni engagement. Presented at Global Learning Innovations: Innovation in Built Environment Education Conference, Liverpool

Nurturing connections between the university and the real estate alumni plays a pivotal role in improving the communication within the real estate sector and to continuously align the educational offer to the emerging industry needs. In the era of di... Read More about Alumni engagement for learner engagement and career planning: Real estate alumni engagement.

Embodied carbon reporting by German real estate institutional investors (2023)
Journal Article
Weinfeld, S., Wiejak-Roy, G., & Booth, C. A. (2023). Embodied carbon reporting by German real estate institutional investors. Journal of Sustainability Research, 5(1), 32. https://doi.org/10.20900/jsr20230003

Background: The building sector is one of the largest contributors of greenhouse gas emissions across the globe. The European Union pledges to become climate neutral by 2050. To reach this goal, member states will need to account for embodied carbon... Read More about Embodied carbon reporting by German real estate institutional investors.

Argus University Challenge – lessons learned from developing the case study (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Wiejak-Roy, G. (2022, December). Argus University Challenge – lessons learned from developing the case study. Presented at 18th ERES Educational Seminar, Krakow, Poland

The `case-study method' is frequently used in management education to put theory into practice. The same is true in real estate education. In real estate it is also critical that the students gain practical experience with industry tools used to supp... Read More about Argus University Challenge – lessons learned from developing the case study.

Game-based learning in construction to counter the challenges of large group teaching with vast student diversity (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Basu, C., & Wiejak-Roy, G. (2022, December). Game-based learning in construction to counter the challenges of large group teaching with vast student diversity. Presented at 18th European Real Estate Society Education Seminar, Cracow University of Economics and online

Research indicates that despite increasingly multicultural approach of the universities, typical patterns show that students with different cultures minimally interact, and this leads to ‘group separation’. This implies that there is greater degree o... Read More about Game-based learning in construction to counter the challenges of large group teaching with vast student diversity.

Strategic vendor due diligence in real estate transactions (2022)
Journal Article
Wiejak-Roy, G. (2023). Strategic vendor due diligence in real estate transactions. Journal of European Real Estate Research, 16(1), 78-91. https://doi.org/10.1108/JERER-04-2022-0012

Purpose: In light of the ever-growing complexity of real estate transactions, the need for vendors and buyers to better understand the role of vendor due diligence (VDD) is imperative. The purpose of this paper is twofold: firstly, it provides a deta... Read More about Strategic vendor due diligence in real estate transactions.

Institutional imperfections and buyer-induced holdout in land acquisition (2021)
Journal Article
Saha, S., Chowdhury, P. R., Roy, J., & Wiejak-Roy, G. (2021). Institutional imperfections and buyer-induced holdout in land acquisition. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 177(3), 261-298. https://doi.org/10.1628/jite-2021-0012

We look beyond the well-studied issues of fair compensation, regulatory takings, and seller-induced holdout that arise in the government purchase of land for economic development. We argue that political rivalry distorts land acquisition negotiatio... Read More about Institutional imperfections and buyer-induced holdout in land acquisition.

Chopping shopping? Implications of retail structural change on sector allocations: Full report - December 2019 (2019)
Report
Wiejak-Roy, G., Toher, D., Mason, J., & Lamond, J. (2019). Chopping shopping? Implications of retail structural change on sector allocations: Full report - December 2019. London: Investment Property Forum

Retail real estate has traditionally been seen as an attractive investment class. Historically it has provided superior returns, long-term stability and income growth. It has preserved residual value, allowed for diversification and enhanced the scop... Read More about Chopping shopping? Implications of retail structural change on sector allocations: Full report - December 2019.

Chopping shopping? Implications of retail structural change on sector allocations (December 2019) Summary Report (2019)
Report
Wiejak-Roy, G., Toher, D., Mason, J., & Lamond, J. (2019). Chopping shopping? Implications of retail structural change on sector allocations (December 2019) Summary Report. Investment Property Forum

Retail real estate has traditionally been seen as an attractive investment class. Historically it has provided superior returns, long-term stability and income growth. It has preserved residual value, allowed for diversification and enhanced the scop... Read More about Chopping shopping? Implications of retail structural change on sector allocations (December 2019) Summary Report.