Purpose - The purpose of the paper is to give an overview on the goals of the legal due diligence in the greater context of commercial real estate transactions.Design/methodology/approach - The paper first analyses the purpose of the legal due diligence in an acquisition process. In a second...

Heritage tourism in the UK depends upon a physical resource base of historic environments, primarily listed buildings, scheduled monuments, conservation areas and registered parks / gardens. Visiting heritage attractions is at the heart of the tourism experience and staying in historic buildings...

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The two papers by Nie and Wong (2012a, 2012b) have explained the causes of the higher density and shorter life expectancies in China’s urban villages using a property rights based model. Meanwhile, in the paper by Nie and Wong (2012c), exceptional cases in Shajing, Shenzhen have been...

This work analyzes the evolution and structure of the main institutional arrangements devised for reducing transaction costs related to the risk of eviction when selling land or using it as collateral. By comparing private contracting, recording of documents and registration of title systems...

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As is the case in most European countries, during the last ten years, housing prices in urban areas of Greece have increased by about 10% annually. This phenomenon was particularly exaggerated during the period 2005-2006, while the number of property transactions and the rate of new...

Pair-wise comparisons assume additivity, transitivity and equal weighting of properties’ traits. This paper explores multi-criteria treatments of pair wise comparisons in order to reveal the implicit hierarchical decision making process used by analysts who perform residential valuations. This...

This paper provides insight to understanding the factors impacting studentís decision to live on-campus and the universityís concomitant decision to build on-campus housing. We examine the relationship between the percentage of students living on-campus and a number of factors, including...

"During the course of my earlier research on property tax in Greater Mumbai it has been explicit that builders and construction industry quite often lobby with the municipal authorities to reduce the property tax rates for their jurisdiction. It is an intriguing question as to how precisely are...