Housebuilding firms vary across the world in size and in the scope of their activities. This variety may seem surprising in an industry with open technologies and ease of entry. While market and technological factors may go some way to explain such differences, much of the causes of variation...

Whether office replacement cycles are likely to emerge in the future given the bunched nature of office building arising from past building booms is examined. This issue is important because replacement could be a significant supply-side cause of the well- observed office building cycle....

Modelling of UK commercial property development has been a growth industry in recent years. This paper examines the time series characteristics of the data on commercial output and considers the fruitfulness of modelling strategies with respect to it. The models estimated here make sense, and...

Community involvement is a requirement for the public sector funding of urban regeneration in the UK. As a result, it has a major effect on the governance of property‐led regeneration. How well has this new governance structure functioned? This question is addressed here through some...