Dr Tanja Tyvimaa
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Economics & Finance
Biography
Dr Tanja Tyvimaa is Senior Lecturer at the School of Economics and Finance. She joined QUT as a lecturer in Property Economics 2015. Prior to joining QUT, Dr Tyvimaa was Post-Doctoral Researcher at Tampere University of Technology, Finland. She has been a Visiting Post-Doctoral Scholar at the University of Georgia, USA (2012-2015), and a Visiting Research Scholar at Georgia State University, USA (2009-2010). Dr Tyvimaa has over ten years’ experience in academic research and teaching in property economics and development.Before her PhD studies, Dr Tyvimaa worked as a Project Manager in the residential building and real estate development projects having a total responsibility of managing design processes, project programming, floor planning coordination and budgeting. She has almost eight years’ experience working in the property and urban development.
The areas of her research interest are apartment prices and property values, residents’ preferences and supply/demand in property market, and demographic/population related issues. Dr Tyvimaa is interested in residential and mixed-use urban properties, within a special expertise of seniors housing (retirement communities).During her years in academia, Dr Tyvimaa has been successful getting research grants and funding from several academic funding organisations. Dr Tyvimaa serves as secretary in the International Real Estate Society (IRES).
Dr Tyvimaa is a Program Leader at the Building 4.0 CRC https://building4pointzero.org/
Dr Tyvimaa holds following qualifications:
- Doctor of Science (PhD in technology), Tampere University of Technology, Finland, 2011
- Master of Science (construction economics and management), Tampere University of Technology, Finland, 2005
- Bachelor of Science (construction engineering, structural design), Tampere University of Applied Science, Finland, 2000
- Bachelor of Architecture, Vaasa Polytechnic, Finland, 1997
Personal details
Positions
- Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Economics & Finance
Keywords
property economics, property development, housing markets, property value, housing pricing, seniors housing, housing preferences
Discipline
Building, Applied Economics, Other Built Environment and Design
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
- Master of Science in Engineering (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
Professional memberships and associations
FHEA (GradCertAcadPrac) Ecarder 2016
Teaching
QUT:
- USB300 Property Development
- USB141 Building Big
- USB344 Property Project
Tampere University of Technology 2007-2014: Postgraduate level unit
- International Real Estate
Graduate level unit
- Housing Business Management
- Construction Production Management
Undergraduate level unit
- Basics of Construction Management and Economics
- Construction Management and Developing
Experience
Before her PhD studies, Dr Tyvimaa worked as a Project Manager in the residential building and real estate development projects having a total responsibility of managing design processes, project programming, floor planning coordination and budgeting. She has almost eight years’ experience working in the residential property development.
Selected publications
- Erol I, Tyvimaa T, (2020) Explaining the premium to NAV in publicly traded Australian REITs, 2008-2018, Journal of Property Investment and Finance, 38 (1), pp. 4-30.
- Tyvimaa T, Kamruzzaman M, (2019) The effect of young, single person households on apartment prices: an instrument variable approach, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 34 (1), pp. 91-109.
- Kurvinen A, Tyvimaa T, (2016) The impact of senior house developments on surrounding residential property values, Property Management, 34 (5), pp. 415-433.
- Gibler K, Tyvimaa T, (2015) Middle-aged and elderly Finnish households considering moving, their preferences, and potential downsizing amidst changing life course and housing career, Journal of Housing for the Elderly, 29 (4), pp. 373-395.
- Tyvimaa T, Gibler K, Zahirovic-Herbert V, (2015) The effect of ground leases on house prices in Helsinki, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 30 (3), pp. 451-470.
- Tyvimaa T, (2014) Awareness and attitudes toward age-restricted communities in Finland, Seniors Housing and Care Journal, 22 (1), pp. 59-73.
- Gibler K, Tyvimaa T, (2014) The potential for consumer segmentation in the Finnish housing market, Journal of Consumer Affairs, 48 (2), pp. 351-379.
- Tyvimaa T, Kananen J, Gibler K, (2014) The relationship between the determinants of rental housing satisfaction and considering moving in Finland, Property Management, 32 (2), pp. 104-124.
- Tyvimaa T, Gibler K, (2012) Pull factors attracting residents to Finnish senior houses, International Real Estate Review, 15 (2), pp. 165-188.
- Tyvimaa T, Kemp C, (2011) Finnish seniors' move to a senior house: Examining the push and pull factors, Journal of Housing for the Elderly, 25 (1), pp. 50-71.
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Tanja, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Research projects
- Title
- An Inter-Generational Learning and Living Campus: A New Model for Healthy Senior Living and Integrated School Communities Across Urban and Regional Australia
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- 1187656
- Start year
- 2020
- Keywords
- Aged Care; Aged Health; Services Research; Health Care Delivery; Health Care Worker Education