The paper examines the impact of seasonal influences on Australian housing approvals, represented by the State of Victoria building approvals for new houses (BANHs), with the generic objective of enhancing the practice of modelling housing variables. The paper focuses on BANHs as they are seen...

Traditionally, city governments had seen such ëinformal settlements' as illegal slums, lacking proper services or layout and damaging both to the health of the occupants and to the appearance of the city. They attempt hastily to push through settlement schemes, which are based on misconceptions...

Purpose – This paper argues that usual key indicators used in real estate management only show differences to a planned level. For this reason we consider the construction of behavioural key indicators supporting the human decision-making and learning process to improve decision-making in...

In Poland, the lack of data is the major hindrance to research into the real estate market. Data at low aggregation level (municipalities, counties) frequently prevents the extraction of any information allowing the identification of householdsí wealth, the availability of land for residential...

This research exploits the experimental laboratory offered by REITs by investigating how REIT corporate governance affects performance. We follow Gompers, Ishii and Metrick (2003) and use a corporate governance index to measure the overall impact of corporate governance on various measures of...

Studies regarding rational decision issues have been conducted over centuries, and one of the common understandings of rationality in financial terms is that investors are assumed to be risk averse. However, a previous paper, Xu & Dent (2007), identifies that property professionals in both the...

Land and property taxes are important components of a broad-based taxation regime. These are ‘ad valorum’ taxes, imposed on the basis of property values, requiring the generation of regular, cost effective, consistent and accurate estimates of value. It is important that the general...

This research intends to use the investment environment of the real estate industry to examine the ideas of foreign firms for real estate so as to elaborate the competitiveness of Taiwaní s real estate industry.Due to the trend of globalization , real estate industry will be facing the...

Real estate markets are influenced by diverse factors from both the supply and demand side. One influential dimension of real estate developments is tourism. On the one hand, the rising attractiveness of a city or region leads to changing configurations in the services and retail industry in...

The appraisal methods mostly employed in Italy for the real properties are: the valuation for typical values and the mono-parametric approach (or synthetic) and the income capitalization approach (or analytical). Such procedures even if reporting to the complex reality of the real estate market...