Kenneth Appiah Donkor-Hyiaman
The researcher explores how housing finance and development systems function across African contexts, examining financing structures, policy issues, legal constraints, systemic inefficiencies, urban opportunities, transportation improvements, work capital management, facilities design, economic factors in other regions, and sustainable practices.
Faculty Biography
Dr. Kenneth Appiah Donkor-Hyiaman is a Real Estate Economist with teaching areas in real estate (finance, economics, and development), investment appraisal, and sustainability. His previous teaching role was at the Henley Business School at the University of Reading, UK, where he taught undergraduate and postgraduate modules in Investment Appraisal, Real Estate Finance, and Real Estate Economics. In this role, he helped students understand investment banking, corporate and project finance decision science, fixed-income and equity analysis, property investment analysis, and financial modelling using Ms Excel. He has research interests in the role of institutions in international mortgage finance development, housing finance, the role of real estate in mixed asset investment portfolios, housing market structure, analysis and dynamics, and real estate and urban sustainability. He has recently served as consultant to the British Council and GIZ on green TVET and green construction projects respectively. Prior to joining the university, he worked as a Housing Specialist at the World Bank for the Greater Accra Resilience and Integrated Development (GARID) project. He has also served as Investment Consultant to both local and international investors including the Washington-headquartered BlackIvy Group LLC (co-owners of Ayi Mensah Park, Indigo Homes) and as a construction policy research consultant to the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB)-Ghana, Ghana Chamber of Construction Industry, Global Communities (YIEDIE), and Berock Ventures Limited. He is a former Executive Secretary of the Construction Sector of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI), where he led research to inform property and construction industry policies; managed over GHS1,000,000 worth of advocacy projects, sponsored by the Business Sector and Advocacy Challenge (BUSAC) Fund and the Star Ghana Foundation, aimed at improving the property and construction business environment in Ghana. Besides, he managed the Construction Industry Development Forum of Ghana (CIDF-GH), a high-powered public-private dialogue platform currently made up of 21 real estate and construction-related public and private institutions, and also coordinated the International Finance Corporation (IFC) EDGE programme at the AGI level. He is a Commonwealth Scholar and a Co-founder of Metis Brokers and PropIntel Limited, both being real estate consultancy firms. Education Specialism
Economic Issues in Ukraine
Facilities and Workplace Management
Housing Market and Economics
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
Urban and Rural Development Challenges
Urban Transport and Accessibility
Working Capital and Financial Performance
INSTITUTIONAL DETERMINANTS OF MORTGAGE FINANCE DEVELOPMENT
Financing Housing and Infrastructure Real Estate
Accessibility of pedestrian infrastructure along arterial roads to persons with disabilities in Kumasi
Open AccessFinancing Housing Development in an Underdeveloped Financial Market: Learning from Developers’ Financing Adaptations?
Green Building Literacy and University Students' Housing Choice in Ghana
Open AccessGREEN BUILDING LITERACY AND HOUSING CHOICE
Open AccessCorporate real estate management and bank profitability
Open AccessPension reforms, risk transfer and housing finance innovations
Open AccessAn assessment of mortgage loan default propensity in Ghana
Stimulating growth and improving the delivery of housing microfinance interventions
What makes mortgage finance markets work? An inquiry into residential mortgage finance development in developing economies
Open AccessLegal Origins and Mortgage Finance Contradictions
Open AccessLegal origins and mortgage finance contradictions
The relative importance of mortgage pricing determinants in mortgage affordability in Ghana
Another look at housing finance in Africa
Real estate infrastructure financing in Ghana: Sources and constraints
Towards Innovative Housing Financing in Ghana: An Evidence- Based From South Africa’s Pension Housing Financing System
Towards Developing Trade Credit Policies in the Ghanaian Construction Industry: An Analysis of Constraints
Department of Land Economy
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology