Council tax was introduced in Britain in 1993 and represents a unique international property tax. There is a growing belief that it is time to reform the number and structure of council tax bands, but such views have a minimal empirical base. This paper sets out to assess the impact of changing...

The needs of students engaged in enterprise education programs are of ever growing importance. This paper considers the pedagogical challenges that confront the designers of such-programs. It is argued that it is the designer's mindset that will most likely determine the program's outcomes....

Arguments about sustainable urban form have generally been in normative terms without recourse to its practicality. The paper shows that the essential elements of urban form are outcomes of real estate markets. The focus of the research is to examine the economic sustainability constraints to...

British high street shopping centres are suffering high vacancy rates and a large extent of the ‘blame’ is placed on the web. The UK has the greatest proportion of internet sales in the world and there are inevitable implications for existing high street shops, retail parks and out...

The seminal empirical work in this area by Salway (1986) examined the depreciation of rental and capital values of offices and industrial units using the valuation of new and old notional standardised properties at June 1985. Baum (1991) extends the research by considering actual buildings: a...

The purpose of this paper is to develop the concept of a housing market area, thereby provide insights into our understanding of the sub-regional structures of the housing system and hence propose a framework for strategic planning research in the housing market. To tackle this task, it is first...

The focus of this paper is the analysis and prediction of local office rents and in particular the development of econometric models for two UK cities, Edinburgh and Glasgow. This paper reviews the current state of modelling and forecasting for office markets and notes the sparsity of urban...

The paper will discusses the use, logic and the theoretical issues underpinning the definitions of housing market areas (HMAs) and their relationships with labour market areas. Drawing on this understanding, the empirical research generates sets of different potential geographies of HMAs for...

A number of models of sustainable urban form have been promoted but the concept has not been subject to a fundamental review of its theoretical and empirical underpinnings. Sustainable urban form implies an inter-linkage of sound environmental, social and economic foundations. This paper...

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