Housing matters a great deal. The present housing market has worked well for many of us (who have enjoyed the steeply rising values of our homes) which is why change, especially new building, is resisted. But for increasing numbers it now works less well as home ownership is out of reach, and for many years it has been commonly felt that there is a 'housing crisis' in Britain. Reforms are urgently needed to avoid a growing human cost. With so many conflicting views in evidence and a balance to be struck between growth and conservation, what housing market outcomes might be regarded as a success for policymakers? This short book attempts to give at least some answers, concluding with a list of criteria by which success might be judged along with a list of policy recommendations. Along the way a number of 'myths' are identified - either ideas about the UK housing market or possible solutions to the housing issue - that the author argues are mistaken. She argues that we need to be realistic, and not simplistic, about what mix of outcomes can be achieved.There are many national policy aims, including decent homes for all, protection of the green belt, better design of buildings and places, the avoidance of house price volatility, and intergenerational fairness. At the local level, planning provokes conflict and strong feelings. We also have an existing housing stock that is arguably, at least in part, wrongly located, and some of the housing we do have is of poor quality. For anyone with an interest in housing, this is an authoritative, accessible and constructive contribution to a debate that is likely to rumble on until the cows come home.

Real Estate Marketing is specifically designed to educate real estate students with the art and science of the real estate marketing profession. The ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate level classes in business school and professional / continuing education programs in Real Estate, this book will also be of interest to professional real estate entrepreneurs looking to boost their knowledge and improve their marketing techniques. The book is divided into five major parts. Part 1 focuses on introducing students to fundamental concepts of marketing as a business philosophy and strategy. Concepts discussed include strategic analysis, target marketing, and the four elements of the marketing mix: property planning, site selection, pricing of properties, and promotion of properties. Part 2 focuses on personal selling in real estate. Students will learn the exact process and steps involved in representing real estate buyers and sellers. Part 3 focuses on negotiations in real estate. How do effective real estate professionals use negotiation approaches such as collaboration, competition, accommodation, and compromise as a direct function of the situation and personalities involved in either buying or selling real estate properties? Part 4 focuses on human resource management issues such as recruiting and training real estate agents, issues related to performance evaluation, motivation, and compensation, as well as issues related to leadership. Finally, Part 5 focuses on legal and ethical issues in the real estate industry. Students will learn how to address difficult situations and legal/ethical dilemmas by understanding and applying a variety of legal/ethical tests. Students will also become intimately familiar with the industry's code of ethics.

Property Tycoon offers a complete and incredibly revealing guide to every aspect of residential property investment: whether you're looking to just dip into buy-to-let or want to use property to build up a substantial and life-changing income. Covering buying, managing, maintaining, financing and selling UK property, this book is written by someone who has made a success of buy-to-let investment for more than 20 years and through two booms and busts. Written in plain English, and filled with real-life case studies, it reveals the secrets of: the questions every successful property investor asks themselves before buying a property; how to secure capital for your investment properties; where to get tradesmen, agents, mentors and tenants you can rely on; what it takes to manage and maintain different kinds of property portfolio and how to take your portfolio to the next level when the time is right; and when to buy and sell, and how to make sure you get your way in auctions and off-plan deals.With housing in ever-increasing demand, and UK values showing an average rise in value of 9 per cent a year for the last 60 years, today represents a great opportunity for anyone interested in entering the buy-to-let world. Property Tycoon is the friendliest and most up-to-date guide available.

During the reign of James I, an official scheme was drawn up for the "plantation" of West Ulster. However, the actual area settled by new colonists was much more extensive. With them came innovation. Permanent dwellings of a more sophisticated construction became the norm. The spread of hedged enclosures heralded innovations in agriculture. The settlers also brought with them a new language, new surnames, new religion and of course a change in political and historical allegiances. This account shows how colonisation on the ground was not as much influenced either by the London Government or by the new landowners as has often been assumed. The author also demonstrates how seeds of bitterness were quickly sown between the Protestant settlers and the Catholic natives whom they had displaced, with consequences that last to this day.

This special issue offers an interesting overview of the status quo of (German) research in real estate finance. It might also contribute to real estate research moving from a research niche closer to the center of academic interest.

How American colonists laid the foundations of American capitalism with an economy built on credit Even before the United States became a country, laws prioritizing access to credit set colonial America apart from the rest of the world. Credit Nation examines how the drive to expand credit shaped property laws and legal institutions in the colonial and founding eras of the republic. In this major new history of early America, Claire Priest describes how the British Parliament departed from the customary ways that English law protected land and inheritance, enacting laws for the colonies that privileged creditors by defining land and slaves as commodities available to satisfy debts. Colonial governments, in turn, created local legal institutions that enabled people to further leverage their assets to obtain credit. Priest shows how loans backed with slaves as property fueled slavery from the colonial era through the Civil War, and that increased access to credit was key to the explosive growth of capitalism in nineteenth-century America. Credit Nation presents a new vision of American economic history, one where credit markets and liquidity were prioritized from the outset, where property rights and slaves became commodities for creditors' claims, and where legal institutions played a critical role in the Stamp Act crisis and other political episodes of the founding period.

Dieses Buch prasentiert die Ergebnisse einer empirischen Studie, die in Kooperation mit dem Schweizerischen Pensionskassenverband durchgefuhrt wurde, zu direkten und indirekten Immobilienanlagen im Inland und Ausland sowie zu Investitionen in Infrastruktur. Die Diskussionen um die Integration des Themenbereichs "Nachhaltigkeit" in Bereich des Immobilieninvestments resultieren in einer Anpassung der Investitionspraferenzen institutioneller Anleger. Bei dieser empirischen Forschungsarbeit werden die Primardaten mittels einer Erhebung bei institutionellen Investoren in der Schweiz erhoben u.a. bei Vorsorgeeinrichtungen, Versicherungen und Family Offices. Basierend auf einer statistischen Analyse werden Abhangigkeiten und Veranderungen in den Portfolios der Investoren und im Immobilienmarkt identifiziert und ferner konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen abgeleitet bzw. bisherigen Studiengerbnissen zielfuhrend gegenubergestellt. Anhand der Umfrage wird ein unvoreingenommener Einblick in die Zukunftserwartungen gewonnen und die Auswirkungen von nachhaltigen Investitionen auf die Immobilienanlagen eruiert. Folglich ist das Buch ein "Muss" fur alle an den Themenbereichen (direkte und indirekte) Immobilieninvestments, Nachhaltigkeit und Infrastruktur interessierten Personen.

Written by real estate professionals, this book assembles the most comprehensive overview of real estate principles available. It uses an array of intriguing topics which covers the numerous issues that give real estate its distinctive flavor. In this edition all exhibits, tables and boxes have been updated or replaced with current material. Contains a thorough treatment of the growing implications of institutional (pension fund) investment in commercial real estate. Also discusses Clinton economics and the new tax law.

Domestic and international development strategies often focus on private ownership as a crucial anchor for long-term investment; the security of property rights provides a foundation for capitalist expansion. In recent years, Thailand's policies have been hailed as a prime example of how granting formal land rights to poor farmers in low-income countries can result in economic benefits. But the country provides a puzzle: Thailand faced major security threats from colonial powers in the nineteenth century and from communism in the twentieth century, yet only in the latter case did the government respond with pro-development tactics.

In Land and Loyalty, Tomas Larsson argues that institutional underdevelopment may prove, under certain circumstances, a strategic advantage rather than a weakness and that external threats play an important role in shaping the development of property regimes. Security concerns, he find, often guide economic policy. The domestic legacies, legal and socioeconomic, resulting from state responses to the outside world shape and limit the strategies available to politicians. While Larsson's extensive archival research findings are drawn from Thai sources, he situates the experiences of Thailand in comparative perspective by contrasting them with the trajectory of property rights in Japan, Burma, and the Philippines.

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht zielgruppenspezifische und regionale Treiber und Hemmnisse nachhaltiger Wohnimmobilien bei der Miet- bzw. Kaufentscheidung von Mietern und Eigentumern. Zur Ergrundung der Thematik wird zunachst theoretisch erlautert, wie sich die Begriffe "Nachhaltigkeit", "nachhaltige Immobilie", "Region" und "Zielgruppe" definieren lassen und welche wichtigen Aspekte es dabei gibt. Auffallig und wichtig zu erwahnen ist z. B., dass der Begriff "nachhaltige Immobilie" keine feste Definition besitzt, sondern haufig unterschiedlich verstanden und definiert wird. Es werden die wichtigsten Nachhaltigkeitszertifizierungssysteme vorgestellt und analysiert, welche Forschungsarbeiten auf dem Feld der nachhaltigen Immobilie schon durchgefuhrt wurden, um Forschungslucken sowie Forschungsfragen zu identifizieren. Um die daraus abgeleiteten Forschungsfragen beantworten zu koennen, werden Daten von uber 400 Teilnehmern in einer empirischen Umfrage untersucht und ausgewertet. Aus den Ergebnissen der Empirie werden Persona-Konzepte abgeleitet, die z. B. Entscheidern in der Immobilienprojektentwicklung dazu dienen koennen, ihr Produkt nachhaltig und sinnvoll an den Kunden auszurichten.

Die alternde Gesellschaft und die sich verschiebende Altersstruktur haben mannigfaltige Auswirkungen auf die Entwicklung von Wohnformen und die Nachfrage nach Wohnraum. Die sich daraus ergebenden demografischen Risiken sind auch fur Immobilieninvestoren relevant. In 10 Buchbeitragen wird der Einfluss der Demografie auf das Wohnen und den Immobilienmarkt in verschiedenen Regionen der Welt aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven beleuchtet und diskutiert. Durch eine steigende Lebenserwartung, eine stagnierende Zuwanderung und eine geringere Fertilitat hat sich die Altersstruktur weltweit verandert und wird sich weiter verandern. Wahrend sich der ganze Markt nur langsam bewegt, gibt es regional sehr ungleiche Entwicklungen. Es sind weiter groessere Veranderungen zwischen den Gemeinden aufgrund der Altersstruktur und der Wanderungssalden zu erwarten, was sich auch anhand der Miet- und Immobilienpreise zeigen wird. Beispiele aus Munchen und Ostdeutschland veranschaulichen diese Entwicklung und ein Exkurs nach Japan zeichnet unsere moegliche Zukunft vor.

Praxisnahe Forschungsarbeit, die sich mit den Potenzialen der Holzhybridbauweise fur die Immobilienentwicklung beschaftig. Dabei werden sowohl die Aspekte der Holzhybridbauweise im Kontext der Nachhalitigkeit beleuchtet, als auch im Rahmen von Experteninterviews die Chancen und Herausforderungen erfragt und ausgewertet. Ein konzeptionller Vergleich der oekologischen Auwirkungen der Holzhybridbauweise mit anderen Bauweisen und eine Wirtschaftlichkeitsanalyse dieser Bauweise runden das Werk ab und geben dem Leser umfassendes Wissen zur Konzeption von Immobilien in Holzhybridbauweise an die Hand.

Major economic and environmental crises stem from imperfections in the land market, yet the theory which explains the allocation and value of natural resources is relegated to the periphery of social science and ignored by policy-makers. This is the thesis advanced by the authors who argue that problems ranging from the deforestation of the Amason basin to urban decay can be traced to a common factor: the failure to put a proper value on the resources of nature. Western governments have in recent years freed the labour and capital markets of restrictive practices and exchange controls, but restrictions on the land market have escaped attention so that policy decisions continue to be made in ignorance of social, economic and ecological consequences of shifts in the supply and price of land. This book explains how the malfunctioning of the land market affects economic performance, the distribution of income and the use of abuse of natural resources. It retrieves a classical theory of economics from limbo and explains how the market mechanism, if made to work properly, collaborates sympathetically with strategies aimed at enhancing the environment and conserving finite resources. To demonstrate the practicality of their argument, the authors have valued the land and natural resources of Britain - the first authoritative assessment since William the Conqueror's Domesday Book. They claim that, given a similar valuation, any country could develop a sustainable framework for the complex interactions of social, economic and ecological variables. They compare the unreliability of statistics in the United States with the comprehensive valuation available in Denmark.

Due to the accelerating demographic change of the population the reform of the existing pension systems constitutes one of the greatest political challenges in most European countries.

A theoretical discussion of different pension reforms must incorporate not only the demographic aspect but also the role of financial market risk and the impact on production and employment.

These notes develop a dynamic macroeconomic model which incorporates these aspects within a flexible theoretical framework. The proposed approach provides a large scale population model and features a sound description of the production side as well as of the financial side of the economy and their interactions with the pension system.

Within this framework various adjustment policies of the pension system are studied under different population scenarios. The consequences for the economy and the welfare of consumers are analyzed and compared.

Widespread violence, legal chicanery and ruthless profiteering have come to characterise the expansion of the agricultural frontier in Brazil. With the advance of this frontier, the pioneering peasants, on the one hand, and large landowners and large economic enterprise, on the other, have become locked in an increasingly bitter struggle for land. In his book, Joe Foweraker draws on extensive empirical research to demonstrate the dimensions and dynamics of the struggle. It is his contention that the process can only be understood in relation to the patterns of economic accumulation in the national society and to the typical forms of political intervention on the frontier. In this way the argument moves beyond descriptive, moral or realpolitik explanations of the political violence and bureaucratic malpractice on the frontier, and integrates these elements into a theoretical account of accumulation and class struggle on the frontier, and of the characteristic mediations of this struggle.

This is a reprint of a 1987 book * It is to be hand scanned, so as not to destroy the text or cover, and returned to Beard Books. The book deals with the evolution of real estate development in the United States, focusing on the rise of planned communities common in the American suburbs since the 1940s.

Dieses Buch schafft zum ersten Mal Transparenz und Verstandnis zum Thema Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung in der deutschen Immobilienbranche. Hierbei handelt es sich um zwei Megatrends im Markt, die die kommenden Jahre, vielleicht sogar Jahrzehnte, bestimmen werden. Zum Ersten befindet sich die gesamte Immobilienwirtschaft in der digitalen Transformation und das betrifft den gesamten Lebenszyklus vom Planen uber das Bauen bis zum Betreiben. Das bedeutet nicht nur, dass sich Verfahren und Instrumente andern, sondern dass auch gesamte Geschaftsmodelle und Marktlogiken transformiert werden, so wie das bereits zum Teil radikal in anderen Branchen zuvor geschehen ist. Zum zweiten bestimmt Nachhaltigkeit immer mehr die Immobilienmarkte. Das liegt an mehreren Treibern. Die rechtlichen Vorgaben setzen hier immer anspruchsvollere Vorgaben, von der Nachfragerseite wachst das Bewusstsein um Nachhaltigkeit und wird dadurch zu einem bestimmenden Kriterium fur den Markterfolg und nicht zuletzt stellt Nachhaltigkeit in allen drei Phasen des Lebenszyklus - hier vor allem in der letzten Phase "Betreiben" - auch einen massiven Hebel bezuglich Kosten und Margen und damit ebenfalls fur den Geschaftserfolg dar. Dieses Buch leistet eine Bestandsaufnahme zur Durchdringung und Prasenz von Nachhaltigkeit im deutschen Immobilienmarkt und wagt Prognosen fur die weitere Entwicklung im Markt aufgrund empirischer quantitativer Analysen und qualitativer Tiefenerhebungen. Es gibt eine klare Anleitung, wie sich Unternehmen der Immobilienbranche dem Thema Nachhaltigkeit und Technologie nahern, indem Immobilien in digitale und hybride Subsets aufgeteilt werden, die in Bezug auf Nachhaltigkeit und wirtschaftliche Effizienz technologisch optimiert werden koennen. Andreas Moring und Christin Inholte stellen auch dar, was das fur die Geschaftsmodelle von Immobilienunternehmen bedeutet. Sie beantworten zudem die Frage, welche digitalen Technologien und Konzepte auf Nachhaltigkeit in allen Dimensionen (oekologisch, oekonomisch, sozial) in der Immobilienwirtschaft einzahlen und wie sie im Zuge der digitalen Transformation erfolgsentscheidend und gewinnbringend von Unternehmen genutzt und eingesetzt werden sollten. .

Canada's bestselling author on real estate draws back the curtain on real estate investing

Investing in real estate has often been viewed as the poor second cousin to the stock and bond markets. The misperception that investing in real estate is somehow difficult has cost Canadians the opportunity to increase both the quality of and income from their investment portfolio. To help provide a new perspective to Canadian investors, Canada's bestselling real estate author speaks about his relationship with real estate as the asset that has consistently delivered value for himself and the Real Estate Investment Network community across the country.Author Don R. Campbell is Canada's most recognizable face in media on matters to do with real estate Offers readers a unique glimpse into Don R. Campbell's views on real estate as an asset class, the opportunities and challenges, and the essential characteristics of a successful real estate investor

People want to learn from the best. Investors have no better role model than Don R. Campbell--either to be introduced to the world of real estate or to take away lessons that will embolden success.