Recently added articles from International Journal of Strategic Property Management:
PHASED MULTI-TARGET AREAL DEVELOPMENT COMPETITIONS: ALGORITHMS FOR COMPETITOR ALLOCATION
Mar 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. The prevailing practice in new areal real estate development is for public and private actors to perform their duties by turns. Yet, the planning process could benefit from simultaneous contributions from society and developers and their designers. That, again, requires that the ...
DIVERSIFICATION BENEFITS IN THE FINNISH COMMERCIAL PROPERTY MARKET
Mar 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. The Finnish commercial property market internationalised rapidly in the beginning of the 21st century. According to the portfolio theory and previous research on international property investments, the main motivation factor driving international real estate investments is the ...
FLEXIBLE WORKING IN SCOTTISH LOCAL AUTHORITY PROPERTY: MOVING ON TO THE HIGHEST FLEXIBILITY LEVEL
Mar 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. Flexible working has emerged as a modern concept for managing office resources more effectively, efficiently, and economically. The highest level of flexible working environment, a non-territorial working environment, can provide the best opportunity to an organisation managing its ...
THE CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF CONSTRUCTION AND REAL ESTATE NEGOTIATION
Mar 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. Negotiations are common in many activities; the sectors of construction and real estate are not an exception: here the negotiations are an inseparable part of the real estate buying and selling process. The article analyses scientific research related to negotiations and presents the ...
SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT FOR CORPORATE MANAGEMENT OF ENERGY PRODUCTION AND SUPPLY COMPANIES FOR LITHUANIA
Mar 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. Corporate responsibility has become an important issue for management to address. The responsibility of the organization for the public environment (ecological, social and economic aspects of the environment) has become a matter of management attention referring to the entire ...
INTRODUCING MORE TRANSPARENT AND EFFICIENT LAND MANAGEMENT IN POST-SOCIALIST CITIES: LESSONS FROM KYRGYZSTAN
Sep 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT. The Urban Institute (UI) worked with five cities in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan to apply better management practices through the development of Strategic Land Management Plans. Kyrgyzstan transferred property to local governments, but municipal land management had remained poor owing to a ...
OPEN SPACE MANAGEMENT IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS - HOW IT IS ORGANISED AND WHY
Sep 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT. Housing companies manage a considerable proportion of urban open green space in Sweden. This article explores how 62 Swedish housing companies, municipal and private, organise their open space maintenance and the reasons behind organisational structure. Here, organisational structure ...
URBAN REGENERATION ECONOMICS: THE CASE OF LISBON'S OLD DOWNTOWN
Sep 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT. Buildings are one of the biggest assets of Lisbon's central downtown accumulated over a period of several centuries. The efficient use and optimization of the value of these assets are a challenge for both the owners of individual buildings and for society as a whole. Recently, a new ...
FLEXIBLE WORKING IN SCOTTISH LOCAL AUTHORITY PROPERTY: DEVELOPING A COMBINED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
Sep 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT. As indicated in Government reports and previous research, the traditional office environment of both central and local governments has been occupied with high occupancy cost. Flexible working supported by information and communication technology, human resource, and workspace ...
Call for Papers: SPECIAL ISSUE ON CAPACITY BUILDING FOR POST-DISASTER INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT
Sep 01, 2008; ... The International Journal of Strategic Property Management announces a call for papers for a special issue on "Capacity building for post-disaster infrastructure development and management". Authors are encouraged to submit original research related to this theme. This special issue aims to ...
FROM MODELLING TOOLS TOWARDS THE MARKET ITSELF - AN OPPORTUNITY FOR SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT?
Jun 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT. Market based analyses of residential property value traditionally fall within two broad research traditions: a 'more practical' value analysis tradition and a 'more academic' market analysis tradition. While there is a steady flow of information from the latter to the former direction, ...
FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND THE BRAZILIAN REAL ESTATE MARKET
Jun 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT. This article discusses the main aspects of the Brazilian real estate market in order to illustrate if it would be attractive for a typical American real estate investor to buy office-building portfolios in Brazil. The article emphasizes: [i] - the regulatory frontiers, comparing ...
HEDONIC ANALYSIS OF PRICE IN THE ISTANBUL HOUSING MARKET
Jun 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT. The purpose of this paper is to explore the factors that affect housing prices in Istanbul. A hedonic price model is employed in order to examine housing price determinants with respect to property characteristics, socio-economic characteristics, neighbourhood quality characteristics, ...
DETERMINANTS OF COMMERCIAL MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES CREDIT RATINGS: AUSTRALIAN EVIDENCE
Jun 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT. Using artificial neural networks (ANN) and ordinal regression (OR) as alternative methods to predict Commercial Mortgage-backed Securities (CMBS) credit ratings, we examine the role that various financial and industry-based variables have on CMBS credit ratings issued by Standard and ...
Call for Papers: SPECIAL ISSUE ON PROPERTY VALUATION
Jun 01, 2008; ... The International Journal of Strategic Property Management announces a call for papers for a special issue on property valuation. Authors are encouraged to submit original research related to property valuation theory and practice. Topics and questions of interest include, but are not limited ...
END-USER ORIENTED PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS IN REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY
Mar 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT. The European Union (EU) is reforming its public services and suggesting Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) as a solution for producing high quality and cost effective real estate service delivery. However, the use of PPP approach in real estate industries has been found to have ...
ENERGY-EFFICIENT ASSET MANAGEMENT FOR PROFESSIONAL LANDLORDS
Mar 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT. CO2 reduction by means of energy conservation is an important topic in many governmental environmental policies. As new construction accounts for a fraction of the total building stock, the energy performance of existing dwellings is of great importance. Professional landlords can play ...
PROPERTY MARKET NATURE AND THE CHOICE OF PROPERTY PORTFOLIO DIVERSIFICATION STRATEGIES: THE NIGERIA EXPERIENCE
Mar 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT. With a focus on the Nigerian property market, this paper considered and empirically analyzed how property market nature and the perception of market players of some qualitative factors have impacted on choice of property portfolio diversification strategies. Questionnaires, backed up ...
THE CONCEPT MODEL OF SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS REFURBISHMENT
Mar 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT. Sustainable development principles reaching many spheres of human activities, public buildings refurbishment is not an exemption in this case. Buildings refurbishment supports excellent opportunities to reduce energy consumption in buildings as well as encourages other sustainable ...
APPLICATION OF THE ADAPTIVE REUSE POTENTIAL MODEL IN HONG KONG: A CASE STUDY OF LUI SENG CHUN
Dec 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT. There is an increasing complexity and interplay between all of the issues associated with property portfolio decisions. This paper explores the relationships between financial, environmental and social parameters associated with building adaptive reuse by way of a case study. A ...