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Timberland is now regarded as a long-term investment with both institutional investors and absentee owners. This paper utilises the IPD Forestry index to examine the performance of UK timberland over the period of 1987-2006. Forestry land in both Australia and the US was found to provide...
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Risk diversification is important to all investors. However, commercial real estate investors in the UK tend to concentrate their holdings in relatively few properties; as a consequence they are vulnerable to significant risk of underperforming the overall market or a target rate of return....
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Lack of land for a large project in Taiwan is not only a problem for housing but also for office and retailing development. In order to satisfy the requirements for eminent office spaces and high-end shops to be located in a prime location, developers often engage in the assembly of a number of...
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Affordability of rural housing has been highlighted as a critical problem by commentators in the UK as part of a wider housing affordability problem which persists despite the recent house price adjustments. The price of rural housing has been implicated in the decline of rural communities as...
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"This paper develops a behavioral model of the decision-choice of an elderly homeowner who owns her home free and clear in the starting period. The homeowner is faced with a choice among four scenarios: To maintain status quo by aging in place in a home that is owned free and clear, to sell the...
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Recent research shows the benefit of access to public open space differs by housing density, suggesting that public recreational open space can act as a substitute for private open space. We explore spatial externalities from different forms of open space across housing densities. We also test...
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