Purpose – Strategic thinking is a continuous process, alternating between thinking, planning and evaluating. Corporate Real Estate Management (CREM) needs to align their strategy and activities to corporate strategy during this entire process that the organisation goes through. Along the...

Previous researchers have had difficulty in defining what constitutes office productivity, especially in 'knowledge' environments rather than 'processing' environments. The main body of published research that attempts to address the link largely addresses the physical environment. It falls into...

"The changing nature of work and new business management philosophies has led to vast array of possible ""new ways of working."" This generic term encompasses both work patterns undertaken within the office, and also the possibility of location free work outside the office. Ways of working in...

Purpose ñ The aim of this paper is to evaluate an innovative and contemporary approach to teaching, learning and assessment in an undergraduate final year and postgraduate module that have been designed to meet the requirements of Corporate Real Estate Management. Design/methodology/approach ñ...

This article examines platform competition in mortgage backed security market. This market is two-sided in its nature. Mortgage backed securities are used to attract mortgage buyers on one side and property buyers on the other side. While government sponsored enterprises (e.g. Freddie Mac) can...

The paper develops a theoretical framework to examine the efficiency of real market. First, I compare the efficiency concept of real estate market to that of capital market. Second, I show positive short-term house price correlation in a rational expectation model. Third, I discuss empirical...

The paper develops a Bayesian skew factor model to measure the return-risk performance of publicly traded equity real estate investment trusts (REITs). We show that the skew factor contributes in all REITs' returns. The skew factor significantly impacts the performance measurement of REITs...

First, I obtain some new results that are applicable to all continuous distributions on a finite support. Second, I make major corrections to the results of the partial recall scenario. Third, I discuss whether the mean-variance preferences are suitable for the seller in the sequential search...