The dissemination of robust real estate data can help to improve market efficiency and investment analysis. To provide a perspective on property prices, a long series is vital. While long commercial and residential real estate data series are available, agricultural land is less well served....

The dissemination of robust asset price data can help to improve market efficiency, resource allocation and investment analysis. Beyond commercial decisions, land prices influence housing affordability, food security or low carbon infrastructure. Yet price and return histories for farmland in...

The relationship between talent and economic growth is well established but whether jobs pull in talent or talent incubates start-ups is less certain. Here, we assume talent drives growth. In the UK, demographics and educational deficiencies dictate that much talent will continue to be foreign....

Globally, regional cities will bear the brunt of future economic growth. Planning foresight and intelligent policy is needed to dampen malignant growth proclivities and, instead, facilitate sustainable urban development (‘SUD'). But policy makers can struggle to conceptualise, never mind...

Income capitalization is a widely used in commercial property for valuation, development appraisal or for project feasibility analysis. As a decision-making tool, its technical and philosophical limitations are manifest but often overlooked. If bungled, capitalization, can lead to ‘white...

The dissemination of robust real estate data can help to improve market efficiency and investment analysis. To provide a perspective on property prices, a long series is vital. While long commercial and residential real estate data series are available, agricultural land is less well served....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to sketch the UK housing backdrop, review the student private rented sector (PRS) and assess the experience of post-graduate university student tenants in the PRS. Design/methodology/approach – A literature review puts the issues of student-PRS...

Purpose – The paper aims to discuss the major and auxiliary types of cycles found in the literature. Design/methodology/approach – The existence of cycles within economy and its sub-sectors has been studied for a number of years. In the wake of the recent cyclical downturn, interest in...