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...

In recent years, institutional real estate investment activity has experienced major changes in many countries throughout the world. In Sweden, large-scale investment projects have increasingly been dominated by several major financial institutions. As in other places, real estate investment...

This paper presents a methodology that addresses the fundamental question: How can a firm maintain congruence between its real property portfolio and its strategic objectives during time of rapid economic change? The methodology is based on established planning and control theory and is...

This study examines the effectiveness of 1977-78 Real Estate Political Action Committee (REPAC) contributions in influencing voting patterns on real estate legislation. A simultaneous twenty-one equation model is built to test relationships among the endogenous variables of votes, electoral...

An argument is often made that occupational licensure protects members of the regulated industry by limiting supply and raising earnings. The purpose of this study is to examine entry barriers within the real estate brokerage industry and to determine the effect of differing state entry...

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...