Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the sensitivity of the Kuwait housing market to major local and regional geo-political and economic events. Design/methodology/approach: This paper examines the market dynamics of the housing market in Kuwait. Kuwait provides an interesting...

S<sc>tevenson</sc> S., A<sc>kimov</sc> A., H<sc>utson</sc> E. and K<sc>rystalogianni</sc> A. Concordance in global office market cycles, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. A large proportion of international real estate investment is concentrated in the office markets of the world's largest cities. However, many of these global cities are also key...

In 2007 futures contracts were introduced based upon the listed real estate market in Europe. Following their launch they have received increasing attention from property investors, however, few studies have considered the impact their introduction has had. This study considers two key elements....

This paper considers supply dynamics in the context of the Irish residential market. The analysis, in a multiple error-correction framework, reveals that although developers did respond to disequilibrium in supply, the rate of adjustment was relatively slow. In contrast, however, disequilibrium...