Stanimira Milcheva is a professor in Real Estate Finance at UCL. Her research area is in the field of real asset finance. She is the director of the Affordable Housing Centre at UCL where the focus has been on working with strategic stakeholders to provide transparency on the market for affordable housing. She has also set up the Shared Ownership Data Initiative working with the largest UK housing associations to provide transparency on the Shared Ownership market.

Stani has published over 20 peer-reviewed papers in leading field academic journals such as the Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Energy Economics. She is a Homer Hoyt Academic Fellow. Her research has been praised through research and industry awards including best paper awards (RICS , Homer Hoyt Institute , Cushman and Wakefield) and funding awards (Real Estate Research Institute, University of Reading Research Endowment Trust Fund) .

Stani regularly provides advisory to government and local government including Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), Consortium of South East Housing Associations (CASE the 15 largest housing associations (G15), the National Housing Federation (NHF), Shelter, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, European Public Real Estate Association. She has been an MHCLG fellow as well.

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