Flood risks are forecast to rise significantly across many parts of Europe, USA, and Asia. As the climate warms, sea levels will continue to rise and the water holding capacity of the atmosphere will increase exponentially. At the same time, the cost of building flood barriers will increase...

The planned shopping centre or mall has become an important part of contemporary life style. It has been changing patterns of shopping as well as social and recreational activities since its first appearance in 1920s in the US: now malls are found almost everywhere in the world (Brown, 1992; Urban...

A number of studies have examined the benefits of regional diversification strategies within commercial real estate portfolios with two approaches adopted; the first is based on primary contiguous geographical regions while the second employs areas based on economic function. In general, the...

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Industrial or commercial tenancies incur costs to the tenant which are both directly and inversely related to the length of the tenancy. From optimisation theory, the result of this is that there is a unique optimum tenancy length for each tenant at each location, and tenants will be willing to...