Whilst the profile of sustainability has increased substantially in the wider property market, relatively little attention is placed on the business case for sustainable development. In the commercial property market this remains one of the largest barriers to sustainability. For example, a...

An increased investor appetite for global investment has generated a structural market shift observable since the mid 1990s. International or cross-border property investment has boomed, and indirect property investment (investing through securities and funds) has become commonplace. Through a...

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"Real estate appraisers and market analysts in Estonia use various indicators to characterise the quality of real estate, and even those were mainly for offices and commercial real estate. So far, Estonia had no uniform real estate rating system that would have covered all types of real estate....

As is well established, commercial real estate is a highly specific asset: heterogeneous, indivisible and with less information transparency than most other commonly held investment assets. These attributes negatively affect the liquidity of the asset and encourage the use of intermediaries...

The existing literature has shown that increases in housing wealth, driven by unexpected house price shocks, have a positive effect on birth rates of homeowners. According the canonical model, a decrease in housing wealth has a symmetric negative impact on fertility behavior of households. That...

The paper evaluates the situation of logistics service providers and real estate investors in Germany. Especially the effects of the New Basel Accord on service providers are analysed and the financing alternatives for the different kinds of companies in this segment are described. It takes into...

Framework agreement is an agreement between one or more contracting authorities and one or more economic operators, the purpose of which is to establish the terms governing contracts to be awarded during a given period, in particular with regard to price and, where appropriate, the quantity...

The property market in China has had a five-year boom and a five-fold expansion in transaction from 1994 to 2003. In 2003 the government acted to prevent it from overheating. This paper reviews the developments of and analyses the key factors affecting the property market. It examines government...

Over the last couple of years, there has been a growing interest in the financial performance of green buildings. Past research results indicate that green buildings are able to realise higher rents and sustain higher occupancy rates compared to other (non-green) buildings. It is argued that...