Whitehall Group members and guests are delighted to be welcoming Professor Colin Lizieri, Emeritus Professor of Real Estate Finance from the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge as guest speaker during a Whitehall Group lunch on Wednesday, 15th October. During lunch (12.30 – 2.30pm) Professor Lizieri will discuss “Rational Values, Sentiment and Investor Behaviour in Real Estate Markets”. We are grateful to Farrer & Co. for hosting this event.
Whitehall Group Lunch – Wednesday, 15th October 2025
Venue: Farrer & Co., The Peacock Room, 66 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3LH
Speaker: Professor Colin Lizieri, Emeritus Professor of Real Estate Finance, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge
Subject: “Rational Values, Sentiment and Investor Behaviour in Real Estate Markets”
Professor Lizieri has some forty years experience as a researcher, consultant and academic in property markets. Prior to joining Cambridge as Grosvenor Professor of Real Estate Finance, he taught at the University of Reading, at City University and the University of Toronto. Recognition of his work includes the award of the David Ricardo medal by the American Real Estate Society, “the highest recognition by ARES of scholarly work in the real estate discipline“; the International Real Estate Society Achievement Award for international real estate research “for outstanding achievement in real estate research, education and practice at the international level”; and election as an honorary fellow of the Society of Property Researchers “in recognition of an outstanding contribution in the field of property research”. Colin chaired the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on The Future of Real Estate and Urbanization 2014-2016. He has acted as a consultant to national governments, central banks, sovereign wealth funds and other major real estate actors and has acted as an expert witness in the Upper Chamber (Lands Tribunal) and the Australian Federal Courts. He was Head of the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge between 2015 and 2019.
