... on estate agent efficiency, housing market liquidity, and commission fee levels. The analysis uses the survey data from 2000 to 2006 to investigate the different agency practices across England and Wales and their effect on estate agency business efficiency, housing market liquidity, selling price, and fee...

...Qiulin Ke; David Isaac; Peter Dalton Purpose This paper seeks to investigate the factors influencing the business performance of estate agency in England and Wales. Design/methodology/approach The paper investigates the effect of housing market, company size and pricing policy on business...

...Martin Blackwell Purpose To provide a critical appraisal of the UK Government's proposals for the introduction of business improvement districts (BIDs) into England considering statute and case law against the proposed regulations, while drawing on the experience of BID models in North America...

... Changes to urban uses: The annual average change from rural to urban uses declined from 8,000 hectares per year in 1988 to 6,500 hectares per year in 1992. All changes to urban uses in 1994 amounted to 13,000 hectares (0.1 per cent of the total area of England). About half of this land...