Sumin Kim

Research Interests

Real Estate and Valuation Services Building science, technologies and systems Building industry studies Building & Construction Built Environment and Design Environmentally sustainable construction activities Organisational Behaviour Behavioural economics Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing Housing markets, development and management Housing policy

Dr Sumin Kim

Lecturer

School of Accounting and Finance

College of Business and Law

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Available For Media Comment.

Dr. Sumin Kim is an emerging academic in Property/Real Estate. He is currently a lecturer at College of Business and Law, Adelaide University and serves as an Associate Director of the Social Enterprise and Inclusion stream of the University's Centre for Markets, Values and Inclusion (CMVI) Leadership Team.
 
Sumin's main research interests lie at the interaction of Sustainable Real Estate, Behavioural Real Estate, and PropTech (Property + Technology). His research works contribute to discussions on dynamics of property/real estate markets and their stakeholders by employing both quantitative and qualitative analytical methods. Most notably, he has conducted several studies on NABERS and Green Star certified "green buildings" in Australia, with particular interests given to their acceptance and performance in the Australian office market. Further, Sumin has produced several housing-focused studies involving policy analysis and review.
 
Prior to joining Adelaide University, Sumin worked at UniSA Business, the University of South Australia as a lecturer. Sumin also worked as a casual academic and sessional lecturer at Faculty of Built Environment, the University of New South Wales (UNSW) where he received his Ph.D.
 
Hitherto, he has received several academic awards including two best paper awards, one best presentation award, one PhD publication award, and one commendation for teaching excellence.

Sumin is specialised in exploring contemporary urban issues of the Australian and Korean property/real estate industry. Specifically, his major research interests include;

  • Tenants' behaviours towards environmentally-sustainable practices and regulatory frameworks
  • Environmental, social, and economic performance of green building
  • Emerging technologies for built environment (e.g., AI, Blockchain, IoT)
  • Housing affordability and policy outcomes
  • Decision-making modelling

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2020 Teaching Award Commendation for Teaching Excellence Award University of South Australia Australia -
2018 Award Best Paper Award Universiti Sains Malaysia Malaysia -
2018 Award Best Paper Award Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia Malaysia -
2018 Award Best Presenter Award Conference Committee of the International Conference on Sustainable Energy Engineering Australia -

Language Competency
English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
Japanese Can speak and understand spoken
Korean Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review

Date Institution name Country Title
UNSW Sydney Australia Doctor of Philosophy
UNSW Sydney Australia Master of Property and Development
Macquarie University Australia Bachelor of Business Administration

Year Citation
2025 Leishman, C., Abebe, F., Baker, E., Kim, S., & Reid, A. (2025). The willingness to pay and the willingness to stay in privately rented housing. Housing Studies, online, 1-32.
DOI
2024 Cho, H., Kim, K. P., & Kim, S. (2024). Risk assessment of housing reconstruction projects using private blockchain technology: a conceptual model. The Korea Spatial Planning Review, 120, 19-34.
2023 Oo, B. L., Lim, B. T. H., & Kim, S. (2023). Working from home during COVID-19 and beyond: exploring the perceptions of consultants in construction. Buildings, 13(1), 1-19.
DOI Scopus7 WoS5
2022 Kim, S., Lim, B. T. H., & Oo, B. L. (2022). Energy consumption and carbon emissions of mandatory green certified offices in Australia: evidence and lessons learnt across 2011-2020. Sustainability, 14(21, article no. 13773), 1-18.
DOI Scopus10 WoS5
2021 Han, H., Kim, S., Jin, M. Y., & Pettit, C. (2021). Providing affordable housing through urban renewal projects in Australia: expert opinions on barriers and opportunities. International Review for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development, 9(2), 41-61.
DOI Scopus14 WoS12
2019 Kim, S., Lim, B. T. H., & Kim, J. (2019). Tenants' motivations to lease green office buildings: an exploratory study of Sydney central business district. International Journal of Structural and Civil Engineering Research, 8(1), 59-62.
DOI
2018 Han, J. H., Kim, S., Kim, J. H., & Lee, S. Y. (2018). A review of zero energy housing regulations for low-income households. International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development, 9(4), 343-360.
DOI Scopus6 WoS5
2014 Kim, S., & Osmond, P. (2014). Analyzing green building rating tools for healthcare buildings from the building user's perspective. Indoor and Built Environment, 23(5), 757-766.
DOI Scopus24 WoS23

Year Citation
2020 Kim, S., & Lim, B. T. H. (2020). Tenants' office leasing motivators toward the tangible and symbolic aspects of office buildings: between green and non-green buildings. In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science Vol. 498 (pp. 1-6). UK: Institute of Physics Publishing.
DOI Scopus2 WoS2
2019 Kim, S., & Lim, B. T. H. (2019). Dimensions of tenants' office leasing behaviours: an introductory study. In IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering Vol. 601 (pp. 1-7). UK: Institute of Physics Publishing.
DOI Scopus1
2019 Kim, S., & Lim, B. T. H. (2019). Analysing the characteristics of green and non-green buildings: from the real estate perspective. In AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 2124 (pp. 1-5). US: American Institute of Physics.
DOI Scopus1 WoS2
2019 Kim, S., & Lim, B. T. H. (2019). Do office tenants really pay for the greenness?: Findings from PLS-SEM. In AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 2124 (pp. 1-5). US: American Institute of Physics.
DOI Scopus4 WoS1
2018 Kim, S., & Lim, B. T. H. (2018). How effective is mandatory building energy disclosure program in Australia?. In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science Vol. 140 (pp. 1-7). US: Institute of Physics Publishing.
DOI Scopus8 WoS7
2017 Kim, S., Lim, B. T. H., & Kim, J. (2017). Green features, symbolic values and rental premium: systematic review and meta-analysis. In Procedia Engineering Vol. 180 (pp. 41-48). Netherlands: Elsevier.
DOI Scopus11 WoS10
2017 Kim, S., Lim, B. T. H., & Kim, J. (2017). Tenants' decision to or not to lease green & non-green buildings: a conceptual framework. In International High-Performance Built Environment Conference - A Sustainable Built Environment Conference 2016 Series SBE16, iHBE 2016 Vol. 180 (pp. 1551-1557). Netherlands: Elsevier.
DOI Scopus3 WoS2
2016 Kim, S., Lim, B. T. H., & Kim, J. (2016). The effect of building sustainability regulation on the green office building stock in Australia. In Proceeding of International Conference on Sustainable Built Environment SBE16 Seoul (pp. 470-473). South Korea: Hanyang University.
2015 Kim, S., Kim, J., & Lim, B. T. H. (2015). Who occupies the green building: a case of Australia. In Global Collaboration for Asia's Construction Challenges (pp. 1-5). South Korea: Korea Institute of Construction Engineering and Management (KICEM).

Courses I teach

  • BUSS 1055 Discovering Opportunities in Property (UniSA)
  • BUSS 2069 Property Asset Management (UniSA)
  • BUSS 3101 Real Estate Practice (UniSA)

Programs I'm associated with

  • DBPY - Bachelor of Business (Property)
  • DBRF - Bachelor of Business (Real Estate)

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2023 Co-Supervisor Understanding the relationship between management accounting practice and circular economy principles: evidence from the tea plantation industry in Sri Lanka Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Upekha A W R Rathnayaka Mudiyanselage

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