This paper aims at understanding the restructuring process of the modern UK housebuilding industry and at investigating how the business strategies and the concurrent production structure influence business efficiency and the growth of firms. The targeted objectives for addressing the above aim...

There are growing issues of access and affordability to owner-occupation in the UK and in most other industrialised countries. The UK has led the way in developing a range of Low Cost Home Ownership schemes that provide different ways of assisting particular groups of households. Each employs...

This paper examines differences in the extent and patterns of residential mobility in England across tenures and implications of these differences for policy. Of particular relevance is the extent to which the high proportion of social housing results in lower overall mobility, which may have...

The UK government has identified the need to concentrate investment, both public and private, on the provision of low-cost homeownership (LCHO) as first time buyers find it more and more difficult to access owner-occupation through traditional open market routes. New initiatives are concerned...

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This paper presents information on institutional investorsí and investment consultantsí attitudes towards and their performance assumptions for the alternative asset classes, property, and the mainstream markets. It also gives estimates of UK institutional exposures to these asset classes....

The key question that underlies this paper is whether real estate will continue to have a place in a mixed-asset portfolio, when institutional investors can select from a range of investments outside the core asset classes of bonds and equities. It is often stated that hedge funds, private...