Land and property taxes are important components of a broad-based taxation regime. These are ‘ad valorum’ taxes, imposed on the basis of property values, requiring the generation of regular, cost effective, consistent and accurate estimates of value. It is important that the general...

This research intends to use the investment environment of the real estate industry to examine the ideas of foreign firms for real estate so as to elaborate the competitiveness of Taiwaní s real estate industry.Due to the trend of globalization , real estate industry will be facing the...

Real estate markets are influenced by diverse factors from both the supply and demand side. One influential dimension of real estate developments is tourism. On the one hand, the rising attractiveness of a city or region leads to changing configurations in the services and retail industry in...

The appraisal methods mostly employed in Italy for the real properties are: the valuation for typical values and the mono-parametric approach (or synthetic) and the income capitalization approach (or analytical). Such procedures even if reporting to the complex reality of the real estate market...

The adequate measurement of real estate risk is of utmost importance for asset management and real estate portfolio management. Most real estate academics agree that volatility, commonly used as a measure of real estate risk, is inappropriate for that purpose. However, volatility is still a...

The concepts of shopping malls have been evolving in tandem with changes in consumer trends and preferences, as well as demographics. Traditionally, one-stop shop and mega malls such as Raffles City, Suntec City, Ngee Ann City, Great World City and recently, VivoCity, have been planned and...

Industrial sectors and the property assets that support them evolve over time and are shaped by a range of economic, financial, technological, community and political forces. The past two decades have seen remarkable and compounding changes in these areas – underpinned by rapid rises in...

Our research focuses on the appliance of real estate applications (RE-Apps). These productive small programmes on smartphones and tablets will be classified by their usage and analysed concerning their functionality. A sub-classification is made for the ability of Augmented Reality (AR)...

"Methodology of valuation most widespread now is based on the assumption of stability of the market of a valuation subject (a real estate). This assumption has consequence the concept of the market value, in particular, in the definition of International Valuation Standards [1] (which for...

The 22 February 2011 Canterbury earthquake had a devastating impact on Christchurch property with significant damage caused to land and buildings. As at November 2011, around 530 buildings have either been demolished or identified to be demolished in central Christchurch. In addition, around 140...