This paper interprets and develops contemporary notions of partnership in relation to Hong Kong's Land Development Corporation. It demonstrates how such agencies are likely to become overdependent on their private-sector partners or ineffective in policy delivery, unless endowed with adequate...

A note written in response to: Seymour D. and Rooke, J. (1995). The culture of the industry and the culture research. Construction Management and Economics 13, 511-523.

Outsourcing of corporate real estate management is a long-established practice in the United States and, to a lesser extent, in Europe, Asia and Australia. While the imperatives for outsourcing have been widely studied, there has been little research into the nature of the working relationship...

Hong Kong uses a common law ownership system for property held in multiple ownership. Many problems have arisen with the process of managing high rise multiple ownership property resulting in dilapidated, unsafe buildings. The Government is considering changing the ownership method to a...

The paper examines how building height is determined in the absence of building height regulatory restrictions. A model is developed for determining optimal height using simple neo-classical economic analysis; this is then tested using empirical data from Hong Kong. The results show that the...

Improvements in transport were commonly found to have a positive effect on the price of housing. As the construction of infrastructure often lasts for years, it is plausible to assume that investors will take expected improvements into consideration when pricing and trading neighbourhood...

A large, by a factor of ≈103−104, enhancement of Hall effect in cosputtered magnetic granular metals such as (NiFe)x-(SiO2)1−x near the metal-insulator transition has been termed giant Hall effect (GHE). It is associated with a high resistivity which increases slowly with decreasing...