Climate change is the greatest threat to the global environment and economy. This, when coupled with fears over energy security of supply, has stimulated energy efficiency and improved environmental performance to combat carbon emissions and the climate change impacts due to CO2 and other...

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Global capital flows into property markets accounted for over $800 billion in 2011. Of these capital flows, the UK is an active, major property market in a local, European and global sense. Using the Real Capital Analytics database, a detailed analysis of these capital flows is carried out for a...

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This paper presents the initial results of a major research project concerning real estate value. A central consideration is the analysis of those factors that impact upon value, in particular how value is created in real estate development ventures and investment deals. The converse of how real...

Growing global consciousness for sustainable development necessitates the requirement for location specific responses to environmental problems in terms of planning and design of urban built form. A quantitative study was undertaken to compare the energy use of two residential neighbourhoods of...

A quantitative research was undertaken to calculate the energy use in mobility in two residential neighbourhoods having distinct urban form characteristics in a middle tier city in India. The research considered four key attributes of mobility: mode of travel, trip distances, trip frequency and...

This study constructs optimal real estate portfolios using returns from Great Britain (England, Scotland, and Wales) and Ireland (Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland). Data from IPD for ten major regional centres are used for office and retail property from 1984 through 2002 (excluding...

In the December 2002 Irish Budget, stamp duty on all commercial transactions over Æ’150,000 was increased by 50% from 6% to 9%. This effectively means that an investor seeking entry into the Irish commercial property market is required to pay acquisition costs of 11.42%. This comprises 9%...