The construction of housing markets, mediated by estate agents, is changing. The ‘information age’ has witnessed widespread changes to personal intermediation across many business sectors (e.g. holiday sales and insurance brokerage), yet estate agents continue to be extensively involved....

We remedy the lack of quantified mortality improvement information for South Africa by deriving forecasts of the mortality trend based on the South African experience for the years 1996-2011 using the Lee-Carter (1985) and Cairns-Blake-Dowd (2006) models. We utilize a public health perspective...