Olayiwola Oladiran

• Lecturer in Real Estate
• Lecturer; Co-Lead Shef.AI Urban, Innovation and Pedagogy Interest Groups at The University of Sheffield

Purpose Embracing digitisation within the building surveying profession will enhance its practices and, of course, improve productivity. However, the level of digitisation within the building surveying profession is very low. Thus, this study aims to identify factors impacting technology adoption within the building surveying professions and provid...

The construction industry's operations heavily contribute almost half of the UK's carbon emissions and reportedly falling behind in achieving the net zero targets set out by the Paris Agreement. This necessitates a deeper understanding of the main barriers to achieving net zero in the construction industry. As such, this paper aims to gain an under...

This paper analyses how migration policy changes affect the housing and location patterns of immigrants in the UK. Using the UK Longitudinal Household Survey, we examine the relationship between the 2004 EU accession as a migration policy change and housing and locational patterns. In addition to confirming the importance of migration policy framew...

Purpose Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) within the construction sector are highly vulnerable to disruptions caused by political and economic decisions or even pandemics. This study evaluated the current operations of selected SMEs providing engineering design and consultancy services against Toyota Production System (TPS) lean tool. The...

The COVID-19 pandemic led to the mass adoption of remote working and other office market dynamics. As firms continue to adapt to the changes caused by the pandemic through various work patterns, the potential implications for the office market are unclear. Using data from Knight Frank’s (Y)OUR SPACE (2020) survey, this paper employs probit and mult...

Purpose This paper examines the categories of property attributes that are important to UK university students in their online accommodation search. It also analyses the volume of information displayed regarding the property attributes and explores the influence of some of the information provided on the attractiveness and by extension, the booking...

Migration is key to economic development, with varying implications and uneven impacts on origin and destination regions. This paper examines the variation in the major drivers of migration within and across continental blocs and the OECD in a gravity framework. The empirical model uses bilateral migration flow data for 182 countries over a 25-year...

This paper analyses the relationship between the potential demand for purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) properties and their online displayed attributes. Using data from 12 major UK cities, we analyse the effect of the online displayed property information on the popularity score of a PBSA. The results suggest that PBSAs’ tangible and non-...

The accelerated growth of digitisation in real estate operations and practice has led to the emergence of a contemporary real estate specialist area commonly referred to as “PropTech”. Despite the tremendous growth in the deployment of digital technologies and IT systems to solve real estate problems, there has been a disproportionate growth in sch...

Purpose This study aims to examine the housing outcomes of natives and multiple generations of non-natives using a longitudinal survey data in Britain. Design/methodology/approach The authors use longitudinal data from Britain, in which they can observe multiple generations of immigrants and their demographic and economic information. Findings...

Nigeria- a developing West-African nation with a population of approximately 188 million people has a wide residential real estate supply-demand gap which is revealed in the shortage of approximately 17 million residential units. Additionally, the homeownership rate is approximately 25% which makes it one of the lowest in Africa. Furthermore, the r...

Nigeria- a developing West-African nation with a population of approximately 188 million people has a wide residential real estate supply-demand gap which is revealed in the shortage of approximately 17 million residential units. Additionally, the homeownership rate is approximately 25% which makes it one of the lowest in Africa. Furthermore, the r...

Nigeria- a developing West-African nation with a population of approximately 188 million people has a wide residential real estate supply-demand gap which is revealed in the shortage of approximately 17 million residential units. Additionally, the homeownership rate is approximately 25% which makes it one of the lowest in Africa. Furthermore, the r...