"In geographic information systems (GIS) the collection, combination, analysis and visualization of spatial data is carried out in digital maps. Due to the significance of the location for this spatial data basis a commercial use of GIS seems to be suitable for the real estate economy. In German...

Purpose - The main objective of this paper is to illustrate the prospects but also the limits of quantifying external benefits of urban and real estate development projects using the method event study. Another objective is the comprehensible derivation of an appropriate controlling system in...

The matter of external effects is already well analysed and discussed in various disciplines: welfare, environmental or regional economics analyse the (un)desired externalities in different contexts. However, a suitable comprehensive approach to measure positive external effects induced by...

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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...

Since the second quarter of 1998, and with the exception of the 10% downturn experienced in the first half of 2009, apartment prices in Paris have been rising steadily. Their pace of growth even accelerated from early 2010 onward and, unless interest rates are raised to their historical trend...

Since 1997 about one million tenements in Germany have changed hands. Additionally approximately one million transactions will be carried out until 2010. The public interest in the processes of these substantial transactions as well as in the models they follow is extremely high at the moment as...