Someoneís housing career can be described as climbing up a ladder. You start at the bottom when you rent a room and end with buying your dream house. In between you take the steps of renting a dwelling and buying several dwellings. In The Netherlands, the housing career ladder worked until the...

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Purpose Service oriented organizations have difficulties finding evidence based office design suited for new ways of working. This study provides CRE managers with information on factors that influence the activities at workplaces in an activity based office environment, and can be used for...

Purpose – Nowadays the worker is the most important production factor for knowledge organisations, and thus Corporate Real Estate Managers (CREM) must focus on supporting employees. Modern work environments must be designed to meet their preferences for satisfaction and leveraging talent....

In the present globalized world place branding has developed as a strategy to distinguish a place from other places in order to attract tourists, financial capital and certain specific target groups (e.g. knowledge workers) or to hold on to present inhabitants. Especially, the branding of...

During the last decades the housing market has shift from a supply driven to a demand oriented market. Therefore, the choice for dwelling seekers is extended and housing allocation systems are reorganized. In practice however there are many bottlenecks in the housing market. The dynamics of...

Changed legislation and the new playing area in the care sector require another view on real estate by institutions in the mental healthcare sector, since they have become responsible for their own real estate portfolios. Healthcare institutions no longer receive compensation for the actual...

The Dutch government stimulates elderly people to live independently as long as possible. For that purpose Dutch housing associations are charged with the duty to accommodate elderly people suitable. They are not only delivering services to their own tenants at higher age, but also trying to...

The Housing costs of households are diverse. Especially the costs of single households are often high. Single households occur in any stage of the life cycle, among starters, divorced couples, widows or widowers. For some of them the costs pass 40% of their income and this percentage will...

The deterioration of small-scale shopping centres is an increasing problem in Dutch neighbourhoods. Because of the consumersí increased mobility and the decreased potential amount of spending within the catchments area, these small-scale shopping facilities are hardly exploitable. A clear...