This article is a short introduction to the special issue. In this, we provide a brief commentary on the main papers and also set out why we have put this special issue on new directions together. Our aim has been to stimulate new thinking and ideas promoting new areas for future research in...

This study evaluates residential property as an institutional asset group in two European countries (Switzerland and the Netherlands). These are countries where housing is the main institutional property asset group, with institutional property portfolio allocations of over 52% and 50%...

Investors need to have confidence in the maturity of the market in terms of transparency of returns and risks. Information on property returns is normally available for prime markets whereas urban regeneration locations to varying degrees are characterized by an opaque rather than a transparent...

This paper examines policy for land and property in Central Scotland. In the existing UK property literature, there have been few attempts to produce a comprehensive assessment of property market policy (an exception is Jones, 1996). More typically, sectors, regions and specific policy...

This paper is concerned with an econometric investigation of possible monopoly pricing by solicitor estate agents in Scotland who have significant market shares in local housing markets there and who use Solicitors' Property Centres (SPCs) to advertise properties for sale. The exclusion of...