ERES:conference

Interest in international property investment can be traced back to the early 1970s with the collapse of the Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate system, the oil price shock of 1973 and the need to recycle petroleum wealth, all of which marked a sea-change in the global economy (Worzala, 1994:...

ERES:conference

The paper will discusses the use, logic and the theoretical issues underpinning the definitions of housing market areas (HMAs) and their relationships with labour market areas. Drawing on this understanding, the empirical research generates sets of different potential geographies of HMAs for...

A number of models of sustainable urban form have been promoted but the concept has not been subject to a fundamental review of its theoretical and empirical underpinnings. Sustainable urban form implies an inter-linkage of sound environmental, social and economic foundations. This paper...

Models of urban housing markets were originally developed with simplified assumptions including a featureless plain. Urban form in these models is a one dimensional output in the shape of housing density. Subsequent empirical developments using hedonic price modeling and sub-market models have...

Decentralisation of economic activities and population suburbanisation has transformed the spatial structure of cities in the UK over the last thirty years. As part of this process new property forms have evolved including retail parks, out of town shopping centres and office parks. The paper...

The debate in the academic literature about the respective roles of different tenures stimulated in part by Kemenyís pioneering work on home ownership in Sweden, the UK and Australia has focused on distinctions between dual and unitary markets, and latterly the concept of an ëintegrated rental...

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...

The seminal empirical work in this area by Salway (1986) examined the depreciation of rental and capital values of offices and industrial units using the valuation of new and old notional standardised properties at June 1985. Baum (1991) extends the research by considering actual buildings: a...