Shared equity homeownership is a housing finance model that uses public investments to subsidise families with modest incomes to purchase homes. However, the shared equity model is argued to constrain homeowners from moving because of its resale period and price restrictions. While many studies...

Purpose – Achieving a balanced tenant mix is a long-standing discourse in the retailing and consumer marketing literature. This paper applies the Island Species-Area-Energy (ISAER) model from biogeography to theorise tenant mix equilibrium. A five-factor tenant mix model is developed....

Touristification is an emerging concept used to enable the understanding of how various stakeholders interfere and transform a neighbourhood through tourist activities. This study develops a touristification rent gap theory to examine how an influx of tourists causes an increase in retail rents....

Property technology has ushered in new possibilities for the real estate industry, including the use of virtual reality (VR) technologies by real estate agents when marketing properties. Previous studies have identified factors in determining purchase intents within a virtual setting, but little...

Real estate is an asset that is traded in highly segmented, illiquid and informationally inefficient local markets. A short sale in real estate is almost infeasible and therefore impedes informed rational arbitrageurs to trade against mispricing. Thus, real estate returns are prone to...

Real estate markets are known to be less-than-efficient for many reasons, but what roles short-term trading plays are unclear. Do short-term investors bring additional risk to the market and cause prices to deviate from fundamental values? Based on an extensive dataset of property transactions...

Co-living was commonly considered inferior compared to single-family occupied homes. However, with the chic of sharing economy and the sophistication of online peer-to-peer accommodation platforms, co-living has become more common and popular nowadays. Yet, there have been very few empirical...

Achieving higher urban density has become a core principle of the contemporary planning profession as a part of sustainable city development. Both positive and negative externalities of housing density are well-recognised in urban studies. However, very little is known about the net housing...

Purpose – Omni-channel marketing in the retail environment involves the integration of multi-channel marketing activities to provide a unified and holistic shopping experience to customers. The purpose of this paper is to understand the impact of omni-channel marketing in the retail...

Traditionally a young family, usually a married couple, purchases a starter home under a shared title, puts up a deposit and pays down the mortgage with a bank until it is owned outright. But skyrocketing house prices prevent many of them from taking this traditional route. In recent years, the...