Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report an investigation of the effect of location on refurbishment strategies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions using the temperate and sub-tropical urban locations in Australia. This occurred within a larger research project that investigated...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how property management firms are responding to the demands of asset managers and institutional real estate owners to address potential sources of conflict related to fee structures, reporting requirements and incongruent managerial...

Accession of Bulgaria to the European Union is expected to result in increases in the prices of all types of real estate, these changes are expected to differ across the segments of the national real estate market. Real estate prices have been inXuenced primarily by local demand, government...

The implicit prices of housing characteristics concerning the physical structure, location, environment and the risk of construction quality in China are examined in this paper. The hedonic price model with uncertainty of construction quality is adopted. Data is collected from the Beijing...

This paper provides an overview of real estate educational programmes currently being offered in the Republic of South Africa as well as the role of the South African Property Education Committee in this respect. The emphasis is on programmes offered by formal tertiary educational institutions...

This paper highlights the importance and demonstrates the application of a segmentation strategy, based on the concept of the family life cycle, in real estate market analysis. Each stage in the family life cycle has its particular preferences regarding locational attributes. Neighbourhood...

In this paper, we examine dynamic relationships among three housing market variables and a stock market index in a multivariate vector autoregressive error correction (VAREC) model. It is first found that, in the USA, sales and the median sales price of the existing single‐family homes and the...

Given the paucity of good international unsecuritized real estate data and the growing interest in diversifying real estate only and mixed‐asset portfolios beyond national borders, this study introduces an unsecuritized Japanese total return index for office real estate dating back to 1970....

Innovative financing instruments are well‐known in Anglo‐American real estate finance markets. This study is the first to analyse the use and structure of the innovative financing instruments in Germany. Based on a survey addressed to German banks offering real estate financing,...

Investigates the role of investment and finance in real estate education and researches the programs of the conferences of the American Real Estate Society (ARES), the European Real Estate Society (ERES), held in the years 1999, 2000 and 2001, and the program of the International Real Estate...