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Stuart Ross

M.Phil Reading UK, B.Ed (Hons) UCCA UK, AAPI, Reg Valuer Qld.

Position: Discipline Leader, Property Development; Senior Lecturer in Property and Development
Office: K1.29
Tel: +61 7 5459 4586
Email : sross@usc.edu.au

Teaching areas

  • Property Valuation
  • Property Investment Analysis
  • Property Economics
  • Development Feasibility Studies

Research areas

  • foreign investment
  • property market analysis
  • tourism development

Student research projects

  • Property Valuation Methodologies
  • Urban Land Use Economics
  • Behavioural Economics and Property Markets
  • Property development and Financing

Profile

Stuart had over 15 years professional practice experience as a property developer, valuer, investment analyst, sales and leasing, and property and asset manager in the United Kingdom and Australia prior to becoming an academic.

For a period of 12 years from 1992-2004, he was a Lecturer in Property Economics at Queensland University of Technology. For seven of those years he was the Undergraduate Property Economics Degree Program Leader. During his tenure the undergraduate program at QUT was consistently ranked the No 1 or No 2 undergraduate property program in Australia, as determined by graduating students via the national system of Course Experience Questionnaires (CEQs).

In 2004 Stuart retired and took up a part-time consultancy position in Gympie where he provided valuations and general property investment and development advice to private and corporate clients within the northern Sunshine Coast Region.

In June 2008 Stuart returned to academia in his current position.

Publications

Many of Stuart Ross' publications are available from the Coast Research Database.

Research grants

 

Year Amount Investigator(s) Topic and Funding Body Comments
1994 $10,000 Ross, S. ‘Trends in the Placement of Foreign Investment Capital in Australian Property Markets, New Researcher’s Grant, QUT. Competitive University Merit Based Grant awarded to new researchers. Outcome: Book Chapters.
2001 $97,000 plus in kind contribution. Total approximately $175,000. Boyd T (Project Leader), Research team: Kimmet P, Ross S, Tonelli M. CRC for Construction Innovation, ‘Evaluation of Functional Performance in Commercial Buildings’. Project No 2001-011-C. Project examined the performance of commercial buildings as investment assets. Its purpose was to enhance commercial real estate performance within both operational and investment contexts through the development of a model designed to support improved decision making. Outcome: Peer and industry presentations, conference papers.
2003 $97,594 plus in-kind contribution. Total $194,000. Ross S (Project Leader), Research Team: Dept of Public Works Qld, Rider Hunt. CRC for Construction Innovation, ‘Tenant Risk Profiling’. The project aimed to examine the veracity of a ‘tenant typology’ model which would enable industry based ‘Tenant Risk Profiling’ which might then be used in a refined property investment and feasibility analysis model to improve investment decisions. Outcome: Peer and industry presentations during 2003-2004. Referred Conference Paper. Project lapsed late 2004. Project leader resigned from QUT.