...Ermina Topintzi; Henry Chin; Peter Hobbs Purpose This paper aims to explore the steps that need to be taken in developing a measure of global performance for direct real estate. Design/methodology/approach The paper starts by reviewing the major considerations concerning the available real...

...James Baxter; Sing‐cheong Liu; Mark Wang; Bo‐sin Tang; Siu‐wai Wong Purpose This paper aims to present the authors' opinions about the impacts of globalization on real estate profession and some essential changes of real estate business service. Design/methodology/approach The arguments...

... to the globalizing effects of high‐bandwidth communications and the development of enterprise software applications; and the potential for jobs erosion due to the “destructive” impact of new automated and self‐service customer interaction technologies. Findings The practice briefing acknowledges that DTI...

...Colin Lizieri; Louise Finlay Formal portfolio selection strategies based on modern portfolio theory have increasingly been applied to real estate markets, despite the difficulties posed by the characteristics of property as an investment asset. As markets have “gone global”, so portfolio theory has...