The real estate market is rather new sphere of activity in Belarus, distinguished specificity and absence of unity in real estate valuation and real estate market analysis, absence of unity in understanding of the contents of real estate market regulation and research. To overcome difficulties...

The paper describes the development and application of physical-financial modelling techniques to the analysis of relations between development design ñ covering the broad characteristics of a scheme, such as land use mix, development density and built form ñ and financial viability. It is...

During business crisis, cost cut back is necessary. The immediate contemplation usually comes to employee layoffs. However, less disturbing set of approaches can be exercise to cut back labor costs. This research explores strategy for adjusting employment for a property development company...

The aims of the gif, Gesellschaft f�r Immobilienwirtschaftliche Forschung (German Society of Property Researchers) are to foster teaching and research in the field of property and related disciplines. The Society represents an interdisciplinary membership and aims to bring together theory...

Purpose – The economic, political and social significance of housing bubbles is enormous. Since the mid-1980s, the UK housing markethas experienced two succeeding bubble-bust cycles, in the periods 1985/6-1989 and 2001/2-2007. These bubbles differed both in lengt and in how they ended....

This article presents the problem of restitution in Poland in the political, social and economic context. The author analyses public obligations resulted from breaking property rights during socialist past and attempts of restitution in Poland, indicating the most important flashpoints. The...

"The proposition that it is land registration, which determines accessibility to formal credit for investment is common knowledge. Such a proposition is premised on the argument that land registration enables owners of registered landed property to use their property as collateral for loans from...

This paper discusses the challenges currently facing the profession as it moves beyond the complexities and contradictions which now confront it. It recommends that the key to the professionís success lies with it becoming more confident and more open to the adaptation of the current body of...

The mixture of tenants in a large-scale retail property is not simply putting tenants together because each retailer and service provider has its own characteristics and demands in operation. The type, size, number and placement of tenants are the four key elements of tenant mix. In previous...

Our paper describes the results of a Social Return on Investment (SROI)analysis of four new housing projects in Germany. A common characteristic of all projects is the central importance of mutual neighborly support to meet the demand for assistance of older residents. All projects share some...