This paper compares the corporate real estate holdings of European and US multinational corporations. The authors initially develop several benchmarks based on accounting and balance sheet information, and then test for significant differences by industries and sectors between European and US...

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Foreign real estate capital was a major source of financing domestic property market office construction in Central Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.  During the 1990s, over 800 office buildings were either newly constructed or refurbished in Budapest, Prague and Warsaw.  The...

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This paper aims to evaluate the perception of Malaysian facilities management (FM) stakeholders on the importance of innovation in the delivery of FM services. This research adopts an extensive literature review on innovation in the generic business environment and adapts the findings to the FM...

The location choice of office firms is assumed to be primarily driven by the opportunities for face-to-face contacts; a concept strongly linked with agglomeration economies. However, it is recognised that other factors, such as prestige and image might also explain why firms prefer certain...

Recent data availability has allowed real estate researchers to dig deeper into the property market dynamics. This is the case of Madrid where, by and large, lessons on office markets have been extracted from the studies of other markets as those of United Kingdom, Germany or US. This paper...