We estimate the impact of more stringent minimum lot size restrictions across small border areas of neighboring communities using data from the Wharton Residential Land Use Regulatory Index (WRLURI) surveys. Economically meaningful effects are found on the built environment, not just house...

Rund 28% der Haushalte in Luxemburg sind Mieter einer Immobilie, um dort zu wohnen und/oder zu arbeiten. Im geschäftlichen Bereich werden Räumlichkeiten und Grundstücke für gewerbliche, handwerkliche, industrielle Zwecke oder auch zur Ausübung eines selbständigen Berufs gemietet. In allen...

The paper studies the market failures associated with land tenure insecurity and information asymmetry in an urban land use model, and analyzes households' responses to mitigate tenure insecurity. When buyers and sellers of land plots can pair along trusted kinship lines whereby deception (the...

Smallholder farmers’ investment decisions and the efficiency of resource allocation depend on the security of land tenure. This paper develops a simple model that captures essential institutional features of rural land markets in Ghana, including the dependence of future rights over land on...

Academics have proposed hybrid products with equity features for the financing of housing. In spite of their risk-sharing benefits these products have not become mainstream. This paper studies an important exception, a UK government scheme which in the five years since its inception has provided...

"There is a lack of international comparative housing studies, possibly because it requires thorough knowledge of the real estate market in question. This book brings together scholars with knowledge of different national markets in order to facilitate comparisons for real estate, housing and...

"Residential Property Appraisal, Volumes 1 & 2 are essential handbooks not only for students studying surveying but also for surveyors and others involved in the appraisal of residential property. Volume 1 has been updated and covers the valuation process as it relates to residential properties."

The paper examined the administrative structure under the Land Use Act, their relationship and efficacy in the light of the general principles and policy that motivated the promulgation of the Act. The study found that the administrative structure put in place under the Act is shoddy and...

Donor-state partnerships in the Cambodian land sector -- Encountering the leopard skin land reform -- Reconfiguring local authority through land reform -- Youth to the frontier: mobilizing land reform volunteers to build the state -- Life in the leopard skin -- Communal land struggles in the...

An important part of responsible business practices is compliance with the law. This article details what actually happens when the laws of the host country fail to ensure adequate protection. The focus here is on land dispossession and loss of livelihood in relation to a gold mine project in...

This paper sets out to examine the concept of ownership with respect to land within the confines of the provisions of the Land Use Act and in the light of the diverse positions taken by scholars and commentators on the provisions of the Act. It discusses the positions of the 2 schools of thought...

Land registration and titling in Africa has been seen as a means of legal empowerment of the poor that can protect smallholders' and pastoralists' rights of access to land and other land-based resources. Land registration is also on the ethnojustice agenda in parts of Africa and beyond. Yet...

Condominium laws in India have been in existence since 1963, with the earliest condominium legislation in the state of Maharashtra. Most states in India have their own separate legislations for condominiums; however, the principles upon which these state legislations rest are based on the...

A theoretical framework to guide empirical analysis of how land registration affects financial development and economic growth.The author develops a theoretical framework to guide empirical analysis of how land registration affects financial development and economic growth.Most conceptual...

Land registration in Thailand has significant positive long-run effects on financial development and economic growth.Using an economywide conceptual framework, the author analyzes how land registration affects financial development and economic growth in Thailand.He uses contemporary techniques,...

There is a continuing discussion about whether German valuation methods are inaccurate and inferior to the British standard, and the enduring efforts for a European and internationally standardized valuation method and value definitions intensify this discussion. The German valuation system is...

Land Acquisition refers to the process of acquiring land by government from land owners to fulfill a purpose. The government of India believed there was a heightened public concern on land acquisition issues in India.Due to the lack of a cohesive national law addressing issues regarding fair...

The significance of informal land registration in property transactions and development has been discussed at length, but there are few examples of in-depth case studies of how this information accessing and collection institution relates to them and how it may create property rights. This paper...