The increased frequency in reporting UK property performance figures, coupled with the acceptance of the IPD database as the market standard, has enabled property to be analysed on a comparable level with other more frequently traded assets. The most widely utilised theory for pricing financial...

This paper describes the development of a rent index for Flanders, Belgium. This annual index, referred to as the huurprijsindex (rent index), is designed to detect changes in the rent of the overall stock of rental homes. We use the matched model methodology based upon repeat tenancy...

Guidance Note 1 of the Red Book (RICS, 2003) states that the valuation of an operational entity includes four components: the land and buildings; the trade fixtures and fittings; the trading potential, excluding personal goodwill; and the benefit of any transferable licenses and consents. While...

Purpose - The purpose of this research is to provide an analysis of the Nottingham Trent University's Property Management & Development department's sandwich placement scheme which provides students with the opportunity to undertake 12 months industry based work experience. The aim of the...

A visit to the local DIY store might encourage you to bring home more than just a new drill or a couple of rolls of wallpaper since the latest ëmust-haveí item now being marketing is your very own wind turbine and solar panel. For the bargain price of £3,000, you can have two solar panels...

British high street shopping centres are suffering high vacancy rates and a large extent of the ‘blame’ is placed on the web. The UK has the greatest proportion of internet sales in the world and there are inevitable implications for existing high street shops, retail parks and out...

A dramatic fall in the annual rent to house price ratio and long real interest rates during a period of relatively static real rents in the UK suggests that the stream of future imputed rents became discounted at successively lower interest rates from 1995 onwards. This paper argues that the...

Despite the recent trend of offshoring branches of UK services industry to remote locations urban theory has yet to enlist a theory of industrial rents that formally takes the properties of substitution between locations into account. This study elaborates on the Fujita, Krugman and Venables...

German funds increased their ownership levels in The City of London Office market from 0.7% of the sector to 18% between 1985 - 2006. This period of concentrated growth of ownership coincided with several peak-to-trough cycles in The City of London Office market. The paper aims is to assess the...

"In Scotland, sellers of houses are typically faced with choosing from one of two pricing systems - offers over or fixed price ñ to market their property and achieve the ""best"" price in the open market. In the offers over system, sellers set a reserve price and interested parties bid through...