Property Data and Tools (ABPL90398)

Property Data and Tools is focused on teaching students about changes in the urban built environment and property markets through a hands-on analysis approach.

The main aims of this subject include:

1. Identifying the impacts of policy, economic and social changes on the built environment; specifically focusing on changes to property markets and built form.
2. Providing students with an understanding of the strengths and limitations of property and spatial data analysis methods and techniques. This will enable them to identify the appropriateness and validity of both their own research and that of others.
3. Encouraging students to use empirical means to test existing theories of property market behaviours.
4. Equipping students with the technical skills to gather, integrate, manage, clean, analyse and visualise property data.

This subject works through the process of conceptual understanding and hypothesis generation, followed by the collection, management, analysis and visualisation of related property and spatial data. At each stage both theory, technique and tools are presented as an integrated unit allowing students to understand why an analysis is done, where property data is sourced, what necessary software products are to be used and how analysis will generate visualised results.