Amidst ongoing economic austerity, the UK government faces a significant challenge to fund major infrastructure projects. In many areas, market based solutions are not possible due to the scale of infrastructure required, at a time when land values are declining and occupier rents and yields...

At an international level governments are increasingly seeking to ensure greater involvement of the private sector in the financing and delivery of regeneration and sustainable communities. Regeneration is currently at the forefront of the UK Governmentís priorities (Urban White Paper, 2003:...

"The paper considers how UK lending institutions price covenant strength risk. At the outset of the research in March 2008, few could have forecast the level of turbulence that was to hit the financial markets in the autumn of 2008 and that by the end of the year the UK would officially be in...

Public Private Partnerships have made a substantive contribution to the upgrade in infrastructure quality around the world enhancing resident quality of life and supporting economic development. The rollout of the PPP model has not met with universal approval however; indeed in some countries...

Under the traditional method of valuation, risk is implicit within the initial yield which is used to capitalise the net income into perpetuity. The yield is derived from the risk free rate, usually long-dated gilts, plus a risk premium (Hoesli and MacGregor, 2000). Where the risks are seen to...

The paper has two aims; to consider the negotiating strength of landlords and tenants in lease negotiations and to calculate the level of deposit which is necessary to mitigate income risk. The paper reviews existing literature on the negotiation strength between landlords and tenants in...

While academic mainstream urban design theory is caught in a paradigmatic debate concerning normative and positive theories, practice research in the field has focused on the added value of quality design. The purpose is to promote, within the wide range of stakeholders, the concept that quality...

Joint ventures between the public and private sectors for large-scale mixed-use development projects stem from a widely used model conceived in the United States in the 1970s, with a specific focus on downtown redevelopment. Beginning in the 1990s, as more cities in the world experienced...

The paper explores time on the market for single family residential units in Northern Ireland with specific reference to the bidding behaviour of purchasers between 2002 and 2008. It is a period of dramatic change in the Northern Ireland housing market combining unprecedented growth of house...

There is an extensive literature base on time on the market and the relationship to both asking price and agreed price but relatively little quantitative analysis has been conducted on the process that occurs between the time of listing and agreeing a residential property for sale. This paper...