An organization's real estate decisions will be effective if such decisions support the enterprise's overall business objectives. This result can be achieved only by the explicit consideration of how real estate strategy supports corporate strategy and the substrategies for component elements of...

The intention of this work is to provide a contemporary perspective for understanding the real estate markets that can guide the involvement and decisions for all sectors of society's direct and indirect involvements with the real estate process, resources and market participants. Comprehension...

A sense of real estate history and the foundations of the American Real Estate Society (ARES), as found in this analysis of ARES paper presentations, can be very useful in helping to understand the past and the present, as well as to plan future directions for ARES and real estate as an academic...

In the twenty-first century the American Real Estate Society (ARES) is a virtual community of real estate thought leaders, electronically interconnected and linked through the International Real Estate Society to counterpart organizations on all major continents as well as numerous...

This study seeks to answer several questions about corporate real estate research. The first, Where should corporate real estate research be focused in the future? is addressed by a proposed alternative corporate real estate research framework that differs from what has been followed in the...

This study synthesizes relevant research and commentary on real estate cycles in a micro-decision-making context and discusses their strategic implications for investors and portfolio managers. It begins with an extensive review of the macro-economic, micro-economic and practitioner literature...

Environmental due diligence, now a necessary precondition to a real estate transaction, has been raised to a higher priority by the so-called Superfund legislation. Although passed a decade ago, only in the last several years have this law's implications and their significance for real estate...

Corporate property in the past has been concerned to much with the facility and insufficiently concerned with the relationship of that facility to the larger real estate markets and to corporate business strategy. Researchers concerning corporate strategic management have too seldom been...

This study reviews the tasks a corporate real estate (CRE) function should undertake to create more opportunities for a company's real estate-related decisions to increase shareholder wealth. The major obstacles thwarting many corporate real estate executives from gaining the support they have...

The confluence of demographic forces, technological advances, and aggressive retailer strategies are transforming retailing and concurrently introducing a new paradigm for the physical space that supports retailing activities. Over the last several decades retail patterns have evolved markedly,...