"Over the last few years more stringent environmental laws (e.g. the German íEnergieeinsparverordnung ENEVî - Energy Performance of Buildings Directive) and soaring energy prices increased the need for the real estate industry to react. Therefore the Property Group at Lincoln University in New...

Over the last few years more stringent environmental laws (e.g. the German íEnergie¨ein-sparverordnung ENEVî - Energy Performance of Buildings Directive) and soaring energy prices increased the need for the real estate industry to react. Therefore the Property Group at Queensland University...

In many countries the calculation of habitable dwelling surface is characterised by a chaotic variety of calculation variants hardly comprehensible for the end user - sometimes not even reproducible for the expert. Therefore dossiers were analysed on the basis of a random choice in order to...

Over the last few years more stringent environmental laws and soaring energy prices increased the need for the real estate industry to react. In this paper environmental issues concerning the German housing market shall be analyzed. The attitudes of tenants (and to certain degree home owners)...

The Lehmann bankruptcy, the financial crisis in Greece and the ongoing problems of the Euro brought about a situation in Germany, in which people started to shift their assets into properties. In addition to an undersupply of properties in the major cities, the situation is getting increasingly...

Whilst market prices and rents in residential property are largely governed by the economics of supply and demand, the impact on market price, of the condition and environment of individual or even entire residential blocks of properties is hugely affected by buyer and tenant perception. This is...