Dr Olayiwola Oladiran

Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Lecturer in Real Estate

o.o.oladiran@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 6903

C4e, Geography and Planning Building

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Dr Olayiwola Oladiran
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
C4e
Geography and Planning Building
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND

Profile

Olayiwola is a Lecturer in Real Estate and co-Lead Shef.AI Urban, Innovation and Pedagogy Interest Groups. He holds a PhD in Real Estate and Urban Economics, an MSc in International Real Estate Investment and Finance, and a BTech in Estate Management. Previously, he worked as a Lecturer in Real Estate and Property Management at Leeds Beckett University and a Teaching Fellow at the Henley Business School, University of Reading. Prior to joining academia, he built his career in international real estate professional practice in the private and public sectors.

Ola specialises in real estate economics, digital applications (PropTech) and innovation and his research output has been published in top-tier journals and he has presented at international conferences in North America, Asia, and Europe.

Olayiwola is a Chartered Surveyor (MRICS) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Over the years, he has led and collaborated on several research projects. He was the Lead Investigator of the PropTech Education Integration Framework (PEIF) following the award of the University College of Estate Management Harold Samuel Research Prize in 2020. Olayiwola is enthusiastic about developing and promoting innovation in real estate through digital technology.

Ola welcomes enquiries from research students and post-doctoral candidates, particularly those interested in research in the following broad areas: PropTech (real estate digital technology and innovation), operational real estate and real estate economics.

Dr Olayiwola Oladiran talks about the modules he teaches on our Real Estate courses

Qualifications

PhD Real Estate Economics, University of Reading.

MSc International Real Estate Investment and Finance Nottingham Trent University, UK

B-Tech Estate Management, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria

Research interests

My current and planned research/projects centre around real estate digital technology and innovation (PropTech) and strategies/models for enhanced environmental, social, economic and physical/spatial efficiency in the built environment. My work spans a range of digital tools such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain technology, tokenisation, Internet of Things (IoT), virtual reality (VR) and their integration across the real estate value chain. My interest also includes emerging real estate innovations such as automated valuation models (AVMs), building information modelling (BIM), blended working models (BWMs), construction technology (ConTech), crowdfunding, intelligent planning systems, Metaverse, peer-to-peer, lending (P2P), shared economy, smart buildings, smart cities, space-time commoditisation and virtual capital (VC). My research also covers areas of housing and operational real estate markets.

Research Projects

Developing a PropTech Education Integration Framework (Lead Investigator)- UCEM Harold Samuel Research Prize 2020

Publications

Journal articles

Oladiran O, Hallam P & Elliot L (2023) The Covid-19 pandemic and office space demand dynamics. International Journal of Strategic Property Management, 27(1), 35-49. View this article in WRRO
Dauda J, Ajayi S, Omotayo T, Oladiran O & Ilori O (2023) Implementation of lean for small- and medium-sized construction organisational improvement. Smart and Sustainable Built Environment.
Oladiran O, Sunmoni A, Ajayi S, Guo J & Abbas M (2022) What property attributes are important to UK university students in their online accommodation search?. Journal of European Real Estate Research.
Nanda A & Oladiran O (2022) Examining regional asymmetries in drivers of international migration flows. The Manchester School, 90(6), 648-667. View this article in WRRO
Oladiran O, Nanda A & Milcheva S (2019) Why do natives and non-natives have different housing outcomes? Evidence from Britain. International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis, 12(2), 298-329.
Oladiran O, Akinsomi O & Kaseka Z () Covid-19 Outcomes: Exploring the footprints of the pandemic on the office market in Johannesburg, South Africa. Journal of Corporate Real Estate.

Conference proceedings papers

Devaney S, Oladiran O & Muhammad A (2023) Exploring PropTech Investment Capital Pull Factors. 29th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference
Oladiran O & Abbas M (2022) ANALYSING (A)SYMMETRIES IN STUDENT ACCOMMODATION PRICING: EVIDENCE FROM EUROPEAN STUDENT ACCOMMODATION MARKET. Redefining the Future of Real Estate in Africa: the 21st Annual AfRES Conference
Hahn J, Oladiran O & Akinwaminde D (2022) BARRIERS TO THE ADOPTION OF SMART HOUSING CONCEPT IN AFRICAN SMART CITY PROJECTS. Redefining the Future of Real Estate in Africa: the 21st Annual AfRES Conference
Oladiran O, Saheed A & Adesola S (2021) What Property Attributes are Important to UK University Students in their Online Accommodation Search?. 28th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference
Nanda A & Oladiran O (2021) Developing an Integration Framework for Property Technology (PropTech) and Innovation in Real Estate Education. The Future of the African Real Estate Sector: What Next? The 20th Annual AfRES Conference
Nanda A & Oladiran O (2021) Developing an Integration Framework for Property Technology (PropTech) and Innovation in Real Estate Education. 28th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference
Ajayi S, Oladiran O & Sunmoni A (2021) What Property Attributes are important to UK University Students in their Online Accommodation Search?. The Future of the African Real Estate Sector: What Next? The 20th Annual AfRES Conference
Hallam P, Elliot L & Oladiran O (2021) An Analysis of the Relationship between the COVID-19-induced Remote Working and Future Office Space Demand. The Future of the African Real Estate Sector: What Next? The 20th Annual AfRES Conference
Nanda A & Oladiran O (2019) Why do Natives and non-Natives in the United Kingdom have different Spatial Patterns?. 26th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference
Nanda A, Oladiran O & Jewel S (2019) Does Migration Policy affect the Residential Pattern of Immigrants? evidence from UK quasi-experimental research. 26th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference
Nanda A, Milcheva S & Oladiran O (2018) Housing Tenure Patterns for British Natives and non-Natives. 25th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference
Oladiran O (2017) The Drivers of Discrimination in Mortgage Lending. 24th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference

Reports

Oladiran O & Nanda A (2021) PropTech Education Integration Framework (PEIF) : integrating innovation and digital technology in real estate higher education View this article in WRRO

Preprints

Oladiran O, Schmidt C & Sunmoni A () Age at Arrival and Immigrants' Housing Tenure: Evidence from the UK.

Teaching activities

I currently teach on the following modules:

TRP471/482-PropTech and Real Estate Innovations

TRP478- Commercial Real Estate Practice

TRP464/TRP624-International Real Estate Markets

TRP6410-Real Estate Economics

TRP 6417- Real Estate Development

TRP 625- Applied Real Estate Valuation

PhD Supervision:

I am part of the supervisory team for the following students:

Enes Aydin: Redefining Socio-spatial Inequalities through Comparative Urban Policy Analysis in London and Berlin (1^st Supervisor: Dr Stephen Hincks)

I am part of the supervisory team for the following students:

Enes Aydin: Redefining Socio-spatial Inequalities through Comparative Urban Policy Analysis in London and Berlin (1^st Supervisor: Dr Stephen Hincks)