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Many real estate investment practices ñ and much real estate analysis and research ñ have their starting point in categories: residential, commercial, office, industrial; retail and the non-category category, mixed use. Categories are social conventions with scarce ontological status. Thus,...

In the last few years a number of papers have been published applying the principles of optimal taxation to the housing market, primarily with regard to the United States. The conclusions reached are that investment in housing is under taxed, resulting in overinvestment in housing and in...

"In any region, including the Lithuania and Belarus, sustainable development demands creation of a single international strategy for use of innovative assets; the strategy should include management of construction and real estate. Attractiveness and competitiveness of the counties depends on the...

Since the last decade, both public and private developers are the major contributor to the housing development in Johor Bahru. However, the quality of houses delivered is still far from the buyersí expectation. This research therefore, seeks to achieve two objectives. One, to measure the house...

Procedure: The periphery of Geneva, where a section of the city bypass opened in 1993, was studied on three different levels: firstly, an analysis of the regionís dynamics as a whole, secondly, an analysis of the demographic evolution and employment market at a communal level, and thirdly, an...

Percentage lease agreements (PLAs) contain lease clauses with payments of a flat base rent plus a variable rent, which is pegged to the sale turnovers. PLAs have been widely regarded as an important mechanism to achieve risk sharing, tenant mix and also rent discriminating objectives in shopping...

These residues were defined after creating the geostatistical model for the group of chosen real estates in the city of Olsztyn ( northern-eastern Poland). The following procedure was used: ï Initial verification of the attributes and the selection of factors, ï Defining the structure of the...

The aim of the paper is an investigation on the reliability of historical returns for the Italian property market, where the quality of information seems not standardized. In Italy, such as for many other countries, the returnsí indices for direct markets are provided by several sources that...

This paper exarnines property development from an institutional economics perspective. The main focus is the property market as an institution, i.e. as a set of formal and informal rules goveming the behavior of diverse property market actors. Based on previous work by the authors, development...