In Finland, the real estate business is going through a fundamental structural change, which has brought forth a need to develop new ways of managing real estate. One indication of the change is an increasing interest within organisations to outsource real estate related activities. However, the...

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In the past, academic relationships in real estate were confined within national boundaries. However, the globalization of the real estate markets is increasingly apparent. The number of international real estate transactions is growing and international academic meetings have been established....

While academic mainstream urban design theory is caught in a paradigmatic debate concerning normative and positive theories, practice research in the field has focused on the added value of quality design. The purpose is to promote, within the wide range of stakeholders, the concept that quality...

"The paper considers how UK lending institutions price covenant strength risk. At the outset of the research in March 2008, few could have forecast the level of turbulence that was to hit the financial markets in the autumn of 2008 and that by the end of the year the UK would officially be in...

In the German city of Frankfurt on the Main, a political coalition of the conservative and the green party fosters green communal residential flats as a low carbon housing policy for its inhabitants. Right in the middle of the city centre- a former railway goods yard has been redeveloped into an...

Accredited Bodies operating in conformity with the EN 45004 standards run the independent third party inspection in several countries of the European Community. These inspections are performed during the whole construction process. They involve, first of all, the assistance to the customer...

In this study, we examine how the transparency of securities affects herding among security analysts, measured in terms of the prevailing consensus and recent revisions by other analysts. Prior literature suggests a relationship between market information and analysts herding behavior, with the...

The European household borrowing has been growing significantly for some years, mainly stimulated by the residential mortgage demand. This phenomenon has persuaded many European banks to consider strategically the possibility to seize the development opportunities of this business also on some...

Our empirical study analyzes house search duration in íhotî (rising prices) and ícoldî (declining prices) housing markets. It focuses on the effect of householdsí ex ante holding horizon ñ or the expected housing tenure at the time of their search ñ on the realized search duration. Our...