The German cities Frankfurt, Munich and Stuttgart approach their climate protection initiatives in the real estate sector with different measures although their goals are nearly the same. This paper examines the underlying efficiency understanding and further limitation factors in the municipal...

A clean natural environment is a public good. Environmental pollution, especially carbon dioxide emissions caused by residential heating and air-conditioning, generates complex external effects. Residents in the European Union are living in a carbon-constrained world. The internalisation of the...

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"Currently, a transition in the perception of real estate business in European Non-Property Company is noticed. In recent years the theory and practice of Corporate Real Estate Management (CREM) has been dominated by the perspective of real estate as an operating asset, whose value-based...

Although properties are not an element of core-business in non-property-companies a significant amount of capital is locked-up in corporate real estate (CRE) by European firms. This awareness gave in the early 1990s the impetus for the trend to a much more professional Corporate Real Estate...

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to team broadly accepted general management concepts with the specific situation of corporate real estate, and suggest a holistic configurations framework for CREM that takes into account the highly diverse context parameters.Design/methodology/approach -...

The conditions of the residential or commercial real estate rental market in Germany has been changed in the last years for the benefit of the tenants. This causes new challenges for real estate companies with rental core business. They have to react with new sales and marketing strategies,...

Managers of public housing companies are confronted with multiple demands, like e.g. providing affordable housing, improving energy-efficiency of their building stock and distributing profit to the municipality. Strategies to balance these different interests are required for optimizing...

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Purpose - This paper aims to demonstrate the contribution of real estate on working performance due to new working environments. Until now working environments just have been considered from a business, human Resources, IT, architecture and a health and safety point of...