This book explains the process of property investment appraisal – estimating both the most likely selling price (market value) and the worth of property investments to individual or groups of investors (investment value). Valuations are important: they are used as a surrogate for transactions...

This paper develops the recent series of papers published in the Journal of Property Research on the market valuation of investment properties by contemporary approaches. In the previous papers, an arbitrage model has been developed and compared with the real value and short cut or modified DCF...

The life cycle of individual commercial and industrial buildings has a major impact on the form and functioning of towns and cities and is an important consideration for building owners and occupiers. During this life cycle, buildings may experience physical deterioration and obsolescence, the...