Nigel Stapledon

Background

About Nigel Stapledon

Nigel has expertise in the area of urban economics, covering microeconomic and macroeconomic aspects of housing and what drives cities. He is author of a long term series on house prices for Sydney and Melbourne (1880 to date) and established the real estate program at the UNSW Business School. In 2017, Nigel joined Macroplan-Dimasi as Chief Adviser where he consults on urban economics and planning policy, and property market conditions. He continues with a position at the UNSW Centre for Applied Economic Research where he teaches Real Estate Economics and Public Policy. Nigel has a PhD in Economics from UNSW and a Bachelor of Economics with Honours from the University of Adelaide, and a Bachelor of Law from ANU. He started his career in Canberra 1976-86, where he worked in the Commonwealth Treasury. He then worked at the Westpac Banking Corporation 1986-2003 where he was Chief Economist from 1993. Nigel has been at UNSW Business School since 2003 where he completed a PhD on the long-run history of house prices in Australia. At the UNSW Business School, he was Associate Head of School 2008-13 and is the Andrew Roberts Fellow in Real Estate in the Centre for Applied Economic Research (CAER) 2013-16. He established the real estate teaching program at the UNSW Business School. Nigel is a regular commentator in the media on macro-economics and housing. A summary of the key results of Nigel’s research on housing can be found in his article: Stapledon, N. D.(2012) “Trends and Cycles in Sydney and Melbourne House Prices from 1880 to 2011” Australian Economic History Review, Volume 53, Number 3, 2012. A more recent contribution on the housing story in Australia can be found in: Stapledon, N. D.(2016) “The Inexorable Rise in House Prices in Australia Since 1970: Unique or Not?” The Australian Economic Review, Volume 49, Number 3.