Dr Rupa Ganguli
Rupa Ganguli is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning. Rupa’s research interests are in the analysis of housing market operations, their spatial dynamics and potential for market inefficiencies that may require policy-regulatory intervention.
- Housing production processes focusing on sales, development, and financing.
- Socio-spatial implications of labour and housing market inequalities.
- Property market implications of demographic trends, specifically internal and international migration
Unit of Study co-ordinator: BADP3002 Property and the Built Environment, University of Sydney Bachelor of Architecture and Environments (S2, 2023) - BADP3002: Property and the Built Environment (sydney.edu.au)
‘The precarious city: the suburban settlement in an age of uncertainty’, Discovery Project funded by the Australian Research Council. Project investigates the long-term implications of changing housing and employment relations among young Australians, which are disrupting the post-war suburban.
The precarious city: the suburban settlement in an age of uncertainty - The University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning.
‘Demystifying the rental vacancy rate measure: a critical review and policy implications’, funded by Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute – AHURI. Project critically assesses the Australian rental vacancy rate, a market signal shaping housing supply and rental policy decisions.
Demystifying the rental vacancy rate measure: a critical review and policy implications | AHURI
Institute of Australian Geographers
Geographical Society of NSW
Publications (industry)
Ganguli R., De Zoysa V. (2015) Sydney Apartment Market Indicators, published November. JLL.
Ganguli R., Watts J. (2015) Brisbane Apartment Market Indicators, published October. JLL.
Ganguli R., Hodge T. (2015) Sydney Apartment Market Indicators, published June. JLL.
Ganguli R. (2015) The debate: Is the foreign investor market diluting supply to Australian investors? published in March 2015 edition of the Real Estate Institute of NSW Real Estate Journal.
Ganguli R. (2015) ‘Australian residential property – a new investment class’. blog published 21 May. JLL.
Hodgson C., Ganguli R. (2015) Southeast Queensland Residential Market Indicators, published March, JLL.
Ganguli R., Warner L. (2014) Brisbane residential market: an investment case, published July, JLL.
Spiteri A., Ganguli R. (2014) Sydney CBD Office Conversions: Manhattan – a template for Sydney, published May 2014. JLL.
Ganguli R., Rees D. (2014) The positive signs of Sydney’s residential market upturn, published February 2014. JLL. Re-published in Australian Property Institute NSW’s Technical Update, March.
Ganguli R. (2013) Sydney in the Midst of Residential Market Recovery, blog published 22 October. JLL. Reposted on Urban Developer online property industry news portal.
Conferences
Ganguli R. Off-the-plan sales ‘gatekeepers’ and their institutional power over new apartment supply outcomes, Joint APNHR - AHRC Conference, University of South Australia, 21-23 February 2024.
Troy L., Randolph B., Ganguli R., ‘Migrant Millennials amid multiple realms of precarity: the fracturing of urban citizenship’, presented at International Symposium ‘Housing precarity among migrants, minoritised ethnic and marginalised communities in times of polycrisis’, University of Sydney, 16 February 2024.
Troy L., Randolph B., Ganguli R., ‘Urban citizenship and the spatial reordering of the precarious city’, State of Australasian Cities Conference, Wellington (N.Z), 5-7 December 2023.
Ganguli R., Randolph B., Pawson H., Housing allocative power and inequitable outcomes in Sydney: off-the-plan apartment sales intermediaries and their structurally embedded agency, State of Australasian Cities Conference, Wellington (N.Z), 5-7 December 2023.
Troy L., Randolph B., Ganguli R., ‘Four realms of the precarious city’, Housing Studies Association Conference, Sheffield (U.K.), 29-31 March 2023.
Spatial outcomes of job and housing precarity for millennials: An Australian story of the loss of ‘urban citizenship’, Housing Studies Association Conference - 27- 29 Mar 2023, Sheffield.
‘The apartment project marketing industry: a shifting institutional structure over a boom-bust cycle’ Pacific Rim Real Estate Society Conference - 17 Jan 2023, Sydney.
Sydney: Its labour market, housing market and internal migration between 1986 and 1996, Australian Population Association Conference - 28 Nov – 1 Dec 2000, Melbourne.
In the media
Ganguli R. (2022) How ‘project marketers’ shape our cities, The Fifth Estate, 8 December 2022, also posted on UNSW City Futures Research Centre blog.
Quoted in article by Condon T. (2015) Brisbane facing flood of units, The Australian, 5 November 2015
Quoted in article by Cranston M. (2015 ) Oversupply to dent apartment market, Australian Financial Review, 5 November 2015
Quoted in article by Cummins C. (2015) NSW budget gets seal of approval, Sydney Morning Herald, 27 June 2015
Ganguli R. (2015) Australian residential property – a new investment class. JLL blog, published 21 May 2015
Ganguli R. (2014) Jobs and Housing Demand in Sydney – A relationship to Watch. JLL blog, published 23 October 2014.
Ganguli R. (2013) Sydney in midst of residential market recovery, JLL blog, October 22, 2013
Quoted in article by Harley R. (2015) Sydney unit surge 'not a given', Australian Financial Review, 12 November 2015