Deborah Susan Levy

Biographic Data

ID6328571
NAMEDeborah Susan Levy
GIVEN NAMESDeborah Susan
FAMILY NAMELevy
SIGNATURELEVY D S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Auckland
ORCID0000-0001-8928-8730
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS21
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Place-based housing-led regeneration in New Zealand’s small town centres

    Open AccessNicole Ke Xiang, Deborah Susan Levy et al.ARTICLEPlanning Practice and Research2025

    This paper explores housing-led regeneration in small New Zealand town centres, comparing new-build and adaptive reuse strategies in Cambridge and Whanganui. The varied development paths highlight the importance of adopting regeneration strategies responsive to local conditions. Cambridge’s new-builds boost density and commerce, reflecting a conservation phase of managed growth. Whanganui’s adaptive reuse preserves identity and activates vacant s…

  • Towards a user-focused office building-system functionality for post-earthquake functional recovery

    Open AccessSally Adofowaa Mireku Nkrumah, Olga Filippova et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Disaster…2024

    Globally, building codes tend to focus on life safety without consideration for the continuous use of buildings after a disaster. Post-earthquake functional recovery is an emerging concept in the built environment that aims at incorporating recovery-based objectives into building codes. However, to date, post-earthquake functional recovery is predominantly recognised from engineering perspectives with minimal inclusion of users’ input. To enhance…

  • Interpreting the Changing Meaning of the Peri-Urban Holiday House

    Open AccessDeborah Susan Levy, Harvey C Perkins et al.ARTICLEHousing Theory and Society2023Cited by: 1References: 18

    In recent studies of housing financialisation, a "financial paradox" has been identified in which owner-occupied houses are simultaneously places of ontological security and financial investment. This paradox influences the way owner-occupiers interpret their primary and holiday houses, particularly if the latter are located in sought after high amenity locations. In this paper, we argue that, faced with rapidly increasing residential property pr…

  • Improving the management of common property in multi-owned residential buildings

    Deborah Levy, Deborah Susan Levy et al.ARTICLEHousing Studies2022References: 78

    This article emerges from debates about the effects of urban consolidation and the need to meet the challenges faced by building owners’ associations in their bid to manage common property in multi-owned residential buildings. It reports an Auckland, New Zealand case study of body corporate management companies, the intermediaries whose role it is to give administrative support to these building owners’ associations. We draw from four internation…

  • Local benevolent property development entrepreneurs in small town regeneration

    Open AccessDeborah Levy, Deborah Susan Levy et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2021References: 33

    Derived from a wider study of place-based economic, social, cultural and environmental regeneration initiatives in small regional New Zealand towns, and reflecting on international research that emphasises the importance of long-term collaborative effort, effective governance and locally-based leadership in regional regeneration, this paper examines the ways locally-based benevolent property development entrepreneurs are attempting to contribute …

  • Technological change and estate agents’ practices in the changing nature of housing transactions

    Richard Dunning, Deborah Levy et al.ARTICLEHousing Studies2019Cited by: 4References: 39

    The construction of housing markets, mediated by estate agents, is changing. The ‘information age’ has witnessed widespread changes to personal intermediation across many business sectors (e.g. holiday sales and insurance brokerage), yet estate agents continue to be extensively involved. This paper asks whether the intermediation process has changed and why this is the case. Through a cultural economy investigation of the everyday practices of es…

  • Unintended consequences

    Deborah Levy, Deborah Susan Levy et al.ARTICLEHousing Studies2016References: 30

    Property markets are characterised by a lack of information, particularly in relation to price. Where guide prices are not provided for properties and sale prices for comparable properties are not widely available, buyers and sellers may depend upon valuations of the property that are not intended to act as market valuations. The resulting anchoring heuristics may lead to a reliance on that information in decision-making. Using mass valuation dat…

  • Influences and Emotions

    Deborah Levy, Deborah Susan Levy et al.ARTICLEHousing Studies2008Cited by: 16References: 20

    The decision to purchase a house is embedded within a set of economic and socio-cultural processes and is operationalized within the context of a specific local property market. In the residential mobility literature considerable attention has been given to examining issues of house prices, life-course and demographic influences on the decision to buy, but less attention has been directed to understanding the internal family decision-making proce…