UK Government policy currently places a strong emphasis on the reuse of brownfield land as part of its sustainable development and regeneration agendas, including the Sustainable Communities Plan. The Barker Review has also been important in the continuing debate for highlighting not only the...

The UK has in excess of one million homes affected by low demand, a figure that represents approximately five percent of Englandís housing stock. High levels of multiple deprivation, increased vacancy and negative perception intrinsically plague many of these communities. At the forefront of...

This paper is based on major survey of City of London occupiers conducted in the spring and summer of 2002 by The College of Estate Management, Reading. The aim of the research was to examine how eBusiness was driving process change amongst City office occupiers, and how this might change...

Purpose – This study aims to provide a review of brownfield policy and the emerging sustainable development agenda in the UK, and to examine the development industry's (both commercial and residential) role and attitudes towards brownfield regeneration and contaminated land....

An increasing amount of research has been devoted to internet search query data and its application to predict a broad variety of indicators such as stock/property markets, unemployment or flu infections.This paper aims to investigate whether changes in internet queries can be used to formulate...

This thesis advises on the optimal index construction technique on behalf of the commercial real estate broker organisation Dynamis in the Netherlands. The database contains 1993 rent-renewals in fifteen years of brokerage from 1984 to 1998. Out of the plethora of indices available in the real...

This paper aims to examine the issue of economic diversification in the context of the office markets in New York and London. These two markets are two of the most liquid office markets and attract a large degree of international investment. However, both cities are key financial service centres...

Several studies have analyzed the role of real estate in a multi asset portfolio, but little work has been done on how to formulate real estate strategies within the context of a multi asset portfolio. An unconstrained real estate strategy needs to take into account the impact of leverage as...