Historically, industrial property has always been the poor relation in any sectoral assessment of real estate markets …

Buy/sell decisions in the property market, as in most markets, are based on individual or professional opinions that … worth and explores other definitions and meanings in the property investment market. It reviews the current provision for …

The focus of this research paper is on the debt ownership choice of UK property companies. The data show that bank … borrowings constitute more than half of the total outstanding debt of the quoted property sector, testifying to the widespread … use of bank debt among property companies. We carried out four censored regressions to identify key factors influencing …

This paper investigates the extent to which risk reduction can be achieved within the UK property market in high and … low Beta portfolios. This issue is examined by making simulations of property portfolios of increasing size using the … largest sample (392) of actual property returns that is currently available, over the period 1981 to 1996. In particular it is …

provision of more strategic property advice to business occupiers. The research consisted of a postal questionnaire survey of … over 250 businesses that examined the role of property and the use of valuations in strategic business decisions. The … need to understand the client’s wider business needs and how property plays a part in the client’s business. Valuers need …

Presents empirical evidence for a sample of 48 UK property company initial public offerings over the period 1986 to … 1995. Several conclusions can be drawn. First, property companies in general show a significantly positive average first … day return. Second, property investment companies’ average first day return is not significantly different from zero …

The lack of portfolio‐based property indices in European property markets has led researchers to consider the use of … notional property indices to determine the risk and return rewards of investing in these markets. Owing to the computation … paper demonstrates the differences in property investment return delivery between notional and portfolio‐based indices …

Since 1993 the UK has used a “banded” property tax as opposed to discrete values for the assessment of residential … property. Explains both the advantages and disadvantages of the system. In addition, summarises the main results of empirical … research into the use of banded property values which have been unaltered for ten years. In summary, aims to present findings …