A 2008 paper investigating the Regulatory Tax (RT) on office development in Britain (Cheshire & Hilber, 2008) provided evidence of very tight restrictions on office space going back at least 50 years. It was also argued that the RT measure tended to underestimate the full costs of restrictive...

This paper re-examines and extends the findings of Bond et al., Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 34, 447-461, (2007) who consider the theoretical model of Lin and Vandell, Real Estate Economics, 35, 291-330, (2007) to determine the extent to which individual real estate asset return...

Expectations of future market conditions are generally acknowledged to be crucial for the development decision and hence for shaping the built environment but there appears to be no consensus in the literature on what exactly constitutes rational behaviour of individual developers. This paper...