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...

This paper addresses the structural change in a local urban housing market within a submarket framework. There is a voluminous literature examining the economic structure and operation of urban housing submarkets, with much of the associated empirical work based on static cross-sectional...

Urban regeneration strategies in the UK have placed considerable emphasis on the development of homeownership and particularly low-cost homeownership. The paper assesses the long-term viability of local homeownership initiatives in public sector communities by reference to case studies in four...

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...

Jones C. and Orr A. M. (2004) Spatial economic change and long-term urban office rental trends, Reg. Studies38, 281-292. The paper starts with the presumption that spatial economic change will have a strong influence on local long-term office rental trends. A number of hypotheses are developed...

Real Estate Investment Trusts are being introduced throughout the world. This paper examines whether their introduction will promote private investment in rented housing. It draws on the evidence from the USA and Australia where residential REITs have been established successfully and...