No one can really predict how the real estate market will develop. However, we can look at patterns, how they might develop and thus give a direction to the future of real estate. This book wants to contribute to that. COVID-19 has had a considerable influence on society and real estate, particularly in the recent period. We are surprised by a development that we had not seen coming and that has seriously impacted our lives. The various manifestations of lockdowns around the world have been gradually phased out and reset in 2020. This has a structural impact on living, working and shopping and therefore has a direct impact on the use of property. Since COVID-19 will be present in many respects for the foreseeable future, the pandemic will have a significant impact on real estate and urban developments. Perhaps when we look back on this period, this pandemic will prove to have been the starting point for drastic property changes. Many were surprised by the empty shelves in supermarkets during the first days of the pandemic. The supply chains were running at full speed, but a large part of the retail sector came to a standstill or switched to online. Multi-channel has now really proven itself and COVID-19 has abruptly increased the demands on last mile logistics spaces. Much more will change in the area of supply chains. Moreover, in light of increasing trade tensions, there is a trend of onshoring and it is clear that logistics and warehousing will become increasingly important. Public space is also in the spotlight. The importance of parks and greenery was great during the lockdown. Guaranteed distance on streets and squares will remain the focus of attention in the coming period. Space is scarce. We need terraces in order to realize some turnover. And the fact that the car is currently considered a safe means of transportwhat does that mean in terms of traffic pressure? A number of real estate experts in the world at various universities have each looked at developments affecting the future from their own perspective and share that knowledge with everyone. Topics covered in this book are: (1) Blockchain and Real Estate in The Netherlands: A Database Exploring 2015-2018 and Extrapolation to the Future, (2) Principle of Substitution in the face of COVID-19 Pandemic: An Application to Tenants Choice in Commercial Real Estate Markets, (3) Selected Aspects of Slovenian Legislation on Lease of Agricultural Land and Forests, (4) Land Value Captures Potential in Norwegian Projects, (5) Environmental Stress and Contemporary Understanding of Human-built Environment Relations: Study Case on Zero-Waste City Ljubljana, (6) Property Development Viability and Community Spirit Rethinking the Safety Angle, (7) Implementation of Land Policy at Local Level, and Impacts of the Functioning of the Real Property Market, (8) Work From Hotels: Is Hybrid the Future and (9) Real Estate as a Service.

Malmesbury Abbey was one of the few English minsters which had a continuous existence from the seventh to the sixteenth century, and the Malmesbury archive is a particularly important witness to the history of Wessex and the West Saxon church in the pre-Viking period. More than half of the surviving charters purport to date from the seventh and eighth centuries, many of them directly associated with Malmesbury's most celebrated abbot, the scholar and poet Aldhelm. This volume is the first scholarly edition of Malmesbury's pre-Conquest charters.
The Malmesbury archive poses a particularly difficult editorial challenge, since the manuscripts are generally late and the abbey's scribes were prone to forgery and the 'improvement' of their muniments. Although the abbey had its own celebrated post-Conquest historian in William of Malmesbury, regrettably little detailed information has survived about the early history of the monastery. Nevertheless, analysis of the charters has made it possible to build up a fairly coherent picture of Malmesbury's development in the first four centuries of its existence. This volume provides an important background to William of Malmesbury's De gestis pontificorum Anglorum, and includes significant new material for the study of William's use of historical documents.
Charters of Malmesbury Abbey is comprised of editions of thirty-five charters and also a small group of separate boundary surveys, with expert detailed commentaries on their historical and topographical importance. The charters are prefaced by a lengthy introduction which presents a new synthesis of the history of the abbey and an extensive bibliography.

Evaluating how land ownership relates to workings of global capital and the lives of both women and men, this analysis draws from field research in Cameroon, Ghana, Vietnam, and the forests of South America to explore relations between land ownership, gender, and class. The study considers how, in each situation, the people's resistance to global forces becomes a central theme, frequently through an insistence on the uniqueness of their livelihoods. Investigating the people of the Amazon, the survey focuses on the social movements that have emerged through the struggle for land rights, specifically concerning the extraction of Brazil nuts and babacu kernels in an increasingly globalized market. In Vietnam, the process of "de-collectivizing" rights to land is reviewed in order to comprehend how gender and other social differences are reworked in a market economy. Addressing a valuable topic, this overview raises new questions about the process of globalization, particularly in regards to the shifting relations amongst its key players.

Der Autor zeigt in diesem Buch die Moeglichkeit auf, durch Simulation am PC die Heizungsanlage einschliesslich des Gebaudes zu simulieren und so die optimalen Einstellungen fur eine gegebene Aussentemperatur zu ermitteln. Dazu entwickelt er die theoretische Basis des Heizungsbetriebs. Anschliessend zeigt er, wie sich Rechenmodelle zur Simulation eines 24-Stunden-Betriebs aus der theoretischen Basis erstellen lassen. Auch eine mehrtagige Simulation fur den Urlaubsbetrieb wird vorgestellt. Dem Leser werden die Simulationsmodelle zur Verfugung gestellt, mithilfe derer er das Verhalten von Heizungsanlagen selbst nachvollziehen und dabei unterschiedliche Parameter erproben kann.

From market memoirs, newspapers, financial journals, and Congressional records, the author has woven a narrative describing the political, social, and economic adjustment of the American people to the speculative machinery that developed between 1868 and the New Deal. The book begins with the struggle of Populist legislators, representing stable farmers, to win a Congressional ban of future commodity trading. Congress failed to act, but anti-speculation, a characteristic of Populism, remained important. In the Progressive era, the stock market rivaled the commodity exchanges for attention. Criticism of market practices was rampant as stories of Plungers spread, but no halt came until the crash. Then New Deal philosophy favored the Progressive faction of the anti-speculators. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

No issue in the Arab-Israeli conflict has proven more intractable than the status of the Palestinian refugees. This work focuses on the controversial question of the property left behind by the refugees during the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948. Beyond discussing the extent of the refugees'losses and detailing the methods by which Israel expropriated this property, the book also notes the ways that the property question has affected, and in turn been affected by, the wider Arab-Israeli conflict over the decades. It shows how the property question influenced Arab-Israeli diplomacy and discusses the implications of the fact that the question remains unresolved despite numerous diplomatic efforts.

From late 1947 through 1948, more than 726,000 Palestinians -- over half the entire population -- were uprooted from their homes and villages. Though some middle class refugees were able to flee with liquid capital, the majority were small-scale farmers whose worldly fortunes were the land, livestock, and crops they left behind. This book tells for the first time the full story of how much property changed hands, what it was worth, and how it was used by the fledgling state of Israel. It then traces the subsequent decades of diplomatic activity on the issue and publishes previously secret UN estimates of the scope and value of the refugee property. Michael Fischbach offers a detailed study of Israeli counterclaims for Jewish property lost in the Arab world, diplomatic schemes for resolving the conflict, secret compensation efforts, and the renewed diplomatic efforts on behalf of property claims since the onset of Arab-Israeli peace talks.

Based largely on archival records, including those of the United Nations Conciliation Commission of Palestine, never before available to the public and kept under lock and key in the UN archives, "Records of Dispossession" is the first detailed historical examination of the Palestinian refugee property question.

Built Up uncovers the roots of the global real estate industry in the machinations of a patron of Shakespeare, the merged lineages of business savvy women and men, startlingly innovative collaborations with the first English architect, and the radical explorations of other denizens of early modern London - and what those colorful origins mean for the practice of property development today. Uniting insights from the author's career as an internationally recognized developer with meticulous archival research, this resource for scholars and professionals synthesizes economic history and the latest planning and finance literature. The result is an unprecedented effort to codify the principles and activities of real estate development as a foundation for future academic research and practical innovation. By tracing the evolution of property development to its earliest days, Built Up establishes the theoretical groundwork for the next phase in the transformation of the urban environment.

Institutionelle Investoren (mithin Pensionskassen, Lebensversicherungsunternehmen, Stiftungen und Vorsorge-/Versorgungswerke) verfugen uber hohe Investitionen in Immobilienanlagen. Das Management dieser Investitionen und des Bestandes erfolgt auf institutioneller Ebene i.d.R. im Rahmen des Asset Managements bzw. des auf Immobilien spezialisierten Real Estate Asset Managements. Trotz der hohen Investitionen ist der Markt des internen und externen "Asset Managements" stark fragmentiert und intransparent, d.h. ein Vergleich unterschiedlicher Asset Management-Standards und -Ansatze ist bis heute nicht bzw. nur schwer moeglich und fuhrt zu Ineffizienzen auf dem Markt. Gleichwohl ist am Markt eine Professionalisierung der direkten und indirekten Immobilienanlage feststellbar. An dieser Stelle setzt das vorliegende Forschungsvorhaben an mit dem Ziel, den aktuellen Stand zum Real Estate Asset Management in der Schweiz, Deutschland und OEsterreich im Rahmen einer empirischen Erhebung in Kooperation mit der ASIP Verband der Schweizerischen Pensionskassen aufzuzeigen, untereinander abzugleichen und mit historischen Daten zu vergleichen. Dabei stellt sich insbesondere die Frage, wie die Bereiche Asset Allokation im Immobilienbereich, Asset Management und Organisation strukturiert sind und an welchen Stellen Optimierungspotentiale bestehen. Dabei werden sowohl die Bereiche der direkten Immobilienanlage als auch der indirekten Immobilienanlage anhand der gewonnenen Daten diskutiert. In der wissenschaftlichen Fachliteratur existieren zahlreiche Studien zu dem Bereich "Asset Management", allerdings sind diese i.d.R. auf ein Land beschrankt, betrachten nicht ausschliesslich den Bereich "Immobilie", orientieren sich am reinen Portfolio-Management bzw. der Portfolio-Optimierung oder spiegeln nicht den aktuellen Stand der Unternehmenspraxis wider. Die empirische Erhebung unter den institutionellen Investoren wurde im Juli und August 2014 durchgefuhrt und ab September 2014 ausgewertet. Die Forschungsergebnisse sollen im Rahmen einer Buchpublikation veroeffentlicht und auf mehreren Konferenzen im I. Quartal 2015 und bei ausgewahlten Investoren verteilt werden.

Das Corporate Real Estate Management (CREM) versteht das innerbetriebliche Management von Immobilienportfolios im Eigentum von institutionellen Anlagern(Banken und Versicherungen-, Industrie- und Dienstleistungskonzernen, Privatvermogen etc.) nicht mehr als blosseLiegenschaftsverwaltung, sondern als unternehmerisches Immobilienmanagement mit moglichst hoher Wertschopfung. Da die jeweiligen Portfolioeigentumer ein solches anspruchsvolles Immobilienmanagementnicht leisten konnen, wirdzunehmend das notwendige Management bei darauf spezialisierten Unternehmen eingekauft. Dies macht den Abschluss und die Durchfuhrung von komplexen Asset, Property und Facility Managementvertragen erforderlich. In der Praxis sind oft wederdie Auftraggbernoch die Auftragnehmer solcher Leistungenin der Lage, dieses komplexe, sich aus mehreren Rechtsgebieten zusammensetzende Vertragsrecht ohne juristischen Rat anzuwenden.Dieses Werkstehtdaher den Beteiligten mit Rat und Tat bei der Gestaltung und Durchfuhrung der notwendigen Vertrage zur Seite.

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, more than 14 million U.S. homeowners filed for foreclosure. Focusing on the hard-hit Sacramento Valley, Noelle Stout uncovers the predacious bureaucracy that organized the largest bank seizure of residential homes in U.S. history. Stout reveals the failure of Wall Street banks' mortgage assistance programs-backed by over $300 billion of federal funds-to deliver on the promise of relief. Unlike the programs of the Great Depression, in which the government took on the toxic mortgage debt of Americans, corporate lenders and loan servicers ultimately denied over 70 percent of homeowner applications. In the voices of bank employees and homeowners, Stout unveils how call center representatives felt about denying appeals and shares the fears of families living on the brink of eviction. Stout discloses the impacts of rising inequality on homeowners-from whites who felt their middle-class life unraveling to communities of color who experienced a more precipitous and dire decline. Trapped in a Kafkaesque maze of mortgage assistance, borrowers began to view debt refusal as a moral response to lenders, as seemingly mundane bureaucratic dramas came to redefine the meaning of debt and dispossession.

Angelika Adamcyk befasst sich in ihrem Buch mit dem so genannten Water Footprint. Dieser misst die Beeintrachtigung von Wasserressourcen und veranschaulicht die Nutzung bzw. Verschwendung dieses lebensnotwendigen Rohstoffs. Neben dem taglichen Gebrauch werden insbesondere fur die Herstellung von Kleidung hohe Mengen der begrenzten Ressource Wasser benoetigt. Die Autorin stellt das Konzept des Water Footprints vor und untersucht Methodik sowie Praxistauglichkeit anhand eines fair und oekologisch produzierten T-Shirts. Neben der Berechnung und Bewertung der Nachhaltigkeit werden die wichtigsten Einflussfaktoren sowie die gesellschaftliche Bedeutung diskutiert.

Establish a sound, multi-generational approach to real estate ownership and wealth preservation No facet of a family's investment portfolio is as ubiquitous as real estate. Every successful family is invested in some way. The most savvy investors and their advisors understand the complexity of curating this portfolio and maximizing wealth preservation. Real Estate Valuation and Strategy is the definitive guide for anyone seeking to reduce long-term portfolio risk and enjoy significant tax advantages while preserving and growing wealth. This comprehensive, in-depth guide addresses key real estate investment strategy issues from the perspective of the successful, wealth investor. Providing the knowledge and insights needed to avoid common pitfalls, optimize the property investment cycle, and evaluate holdings from a long-term perspective. One of the leading experts in the field, Dr. John Kilpatrick covers nuances of real estate investing that are rarely presented in one succinct volume: * Key and critical differences among various categories of real estate * Acquisition strategies to uncover hidden wealth or avoid hidden pitfalls * Valuation of long-term holdings, including forest land, ranches, and collectable "trophy" holdings * When and how to use leverage for short- and long-term opportunities * Strategies for joint ventures * Monitoring holdings for early warning signals Whether you're managing your own portfolio or assisting high-net-worth families, Kilpatrick provides tools and information you need to find, manage, and optimize top-tier real estate investments-ensuring that your family or clients thrive now and in the future.

This volume is a follow-up to the earlier "Urban Economics, Volume 2" of "Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics," edited by Edwin Mills. The earlier volume, published in 1987, focussed on urban economic theory. This new handbook, in contrast, focuses on applied urban research. The difference is of course in emphasis. The earlier volume was by no means entirely concerned with theoretical research and this one is by no means entirely concerned with applied research.

There have certainly been important theoretical developments during the last decade, and they are surveyed at appropriate places in this volume. However, there has been an outpouring of high quality applied research in urban economics, as in other specialties. The reasons for the rapid growth of applied research are not difficult to identify; improved theoretical frameworks within which to do applied research; improved econometric techniques and software; more and better data; and, probably most important, ever cheaper computing power, which is being ever more widely distributed within the research community, providing increasingly easy access to and analysis of, data.

Selection and classification of topics to include in this handbook has inevitably depended on the editors' perceptions of subjects on which important research has been undertaken. It has also depended on the availability of authors who were able and willing to write critical surveys of large amounts of international research. An attempt was made to include authors and have them survey research from a variety of countries. However, there is still a US bias in applied urban research, partly related to the availability of data and computers but also to the sheer size of the US research community.

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