Guidance Note 1 of the Red Book (RICS, 2003) states that the valuation of an operational entity includes four components: the land and buildings; the trade fixtures and fittings; the trading potential, excluding personal goodwill; and the benefit of any transferable licenses and consents. While...

"In Scotland, sellers of houses are typically faced with choosing from one of two pricing systems - offers over or fixed price ñ to market their property and achieve the ""best"" price in the open market. In the offers over system, sellers set a reserve price and interested parties bid through...

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This paper examines the evolution of the commercial property investment market over the last thirty years. The empirical core of this paper will quantify the changing nature of liquidity and transactions activity in the commercial property investment market in the UK since 1981 based on the IPD...

The paper begins by reviewing a stylised urban commercial property yield cycle. It then considers endogenous and particularly exogenous influences on the cycle including the role of macroeconomic factors such as interest rate changes and the property investment climate. A central issue that is...

Investment in energy efficiency is an important policy target area, with the domestic sector being a major contributor to the total UK energy consumption, but also having potential for significant reductions. This research estimates econometric models for the domestic energy expenditure in the...

Recent research shows the benefit of access to public open space differs by housing density, suggesting that public recreational open space can act as a substitute for private open space. We explore spatial externalities from different forms of open space across housing densities. We also test...

Commercial property markets in major cities of the world have experienced significant transformation by the global clamour for incorporation of sustainability in commercial buildings through the introduction of various local and international rating tools. The effect of this trend is the...

The global financial crisis was a sharp shock to real estate markets and while interest rates and government bond yields fell in response around the world, real estate yields (cap rates) have risen. The objective of this paper is to analyse the gap between government bonds (index-linked and long...

The last three decades have seen substantial change in real estate portfolios of financial institutions. This paper begins by first charting this restructuring of the institutional real estate portfolio between industrial, offices and retail classes over the last thirty years in the UK. This...