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...

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....

The scholarly literature in retail proposes various shopper typologies. However, the global retail environment, especially in the United States, is undergoing a metamorphosis. Against the backdrop of changing retail technologies, the onset of ‘de-malling’ trends calls for a re-examination of...

Commuting behaviour has been intensively examined by geographers, urban planners, and transportation researchers, but little is known about how commuting behaviour is spatially linked with the job and housing markets in urban cities. New Zealand has been recognised as one of the countries having...

Hong Kong as a small city has witnessed a drastic change in the number of short-stay and same-day tourists from Mainland China ever since the relaxation of the tourism policy began in the early 2000’s. This study examines the impacts on the prices of retail space attributed to the substantial...

Buying a home for marriage is customary in many societies. Traditionally, therefore, young couples getting married is a key driver of demand for homeownership. Yet the idea of marriage-induced demand for homeownership is a relatively underexplored component of housing price change. We examine...

Stigma has been identified as perceived risks in subsiding the value of properties which are actually or potentially defective. Legal claims are often made under the assumption that remediation itself invokes a form of stigma. This study aims to determine whether this purported post-remediation...

While almost all travel destinations seek to increase tourists, less attention is paid to balancing the growth in tourists against consequent visitor–resident irritants, which is essential if the objective is to make tourism more sustainable. Overlooking the carrying capacity of a destination...

Buying a home may typically be the biggest lifetime purchase of any individual. People looking to purchase a home are bombarded with messages relating to the housing market every day and the framing of these messages has the potential to affect their purchase decisions. To examine these effects,...