...Ziade Hailu; Gerrit Rooks Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the provision of formal land and building rights provides incentives to poor households to invest in their property in urban Ethiopia. Design/methodology/approach – To test the hypothesis a natural quasi...

... landlords. These case studies included interviews with both policy staff and staff responsible for individual investment projects. Findings In the Dutch non‐profit housing sector, models based on principles of strategic business planning and similar models have been applied to structure...

...Michael Ross Jayne; Glynn Skerratt Ethical and environmental investment criteria, now known as socially responsible investment (SRI), are increasingly commonplace in the market today. Some investors have specifically set themselves up as ethical investors. Consequently, ethical considerations...

...Karl‐Werner Schulte Investigates the role of investment and finance in real estate education and researches the programs of the conferences of the American Real Estate Society (ARES), the European Real Estate Society (ERES), held in the years 1999, 2000 and 2001, and the program...

...Sheng Chengmao; Fang Zhida; Yu Xiaohong Using the quantitative analysis method, this paper studies the property investment differentia in areas such as East China, Middle China and West China, as well as the characteristics of property investment based on the relevant economic index in different...

... Research carried out for the RICS and English Heritage demonstrates that listed office buildings are capable of producing a financial rate of return as good as, and in many cases better than, more modern office buildings. A study entitled The Investment Performance of Listed Office...

... Investment for smaller quoted companies © MCB UP Limited 2000 --> Investment Smaller quoted companies It also urges both SQCs and smaller company fund managers to produce an"Investor Communications Statement" (ICS) to provide the framework for quality dialogue...

...John R. Mansfield The residential private rented sector (PRS) represents a major investment opportunity for individuals, corporates and institutions following the sector’s deregulation in 1988. Yet the sector retains historic perception problems by institutions. The development or expansion...

...Patrick McAllister; John R. Mansfield A previous paper (Vol. 16 No. 3) examined the potential contribution of derivative products to the mitigation of some of the problems and risks associated with direct property investment. This paper analyses the property‐related derivative products that have...

... or support specific business activities. The results of a survey carried out using a sample of investment properties and their tenants within the City illustrate the existence of these variations. In particular, the difference between tenant organizations’ perceived supply and demand for individual building...

... © MCB UP Limited 1998 --> Investment Property companies Property ­ Top 1000 industry (Plimsoll Publishing) Keywords Investment, Property companies Of all companies in the Property ­ Top 1000 industry, 47 per cent, increased their level of borrowings...

... Robert Weaver of FPDSavills Residential Investment Portfolios comments: "The survey highlighted growing evidence that major residential investors are starting to appraise portfolios on the same investment performance basis as they use for commercial property." A third of the major investors...

... © MCB UP Limited 1998 --> Investment Property market Institutional investment bulletin Keywords Investment, Property market The property investment market has reached levels of activity not seen since the heady days of the late 1980s. Rising rents and growth...

... --> Investment Offices Property market Institutional investment offices Keywords Investment, Offices, Property market Robert Fames, Investment Partner at Hillier Parker, commenting on the publication of the Office for National Statistics' (ONS) figures for institutional investment...

... of the North generally, examines the tenurial issues and land management practices of the region and their implications for investment mobilization. The evidence suggests that the chequered history of land tenure not only resulted in social unrest and the displacement of helpless villagers, but also induced...

...Neil Martindale The total capital value of the tenanted non‐residential property of English and Welsh local authorities is immense, more even than the total holdings of the top eight, UK‐based, property companies. However, while property investment companies own tenanted property for financial...

... property Investment Planning OFFICE DESIGN THE WAY FORWARD Richard Bennett In recent years new office buildings have been built and existing space refitted at an unprecedented rate. Office space is no longer merely a neutral environment for office workers, but has become a reflection...

... property Investment Taxation Land DEALING (OR TRADING) IN LAND Geoff Parsons The impact of taxation on landed property depends on several matters. The purpose or objective of ownership is particularly important. In this paper, one of a series appearing in this Journal, the property manager...

...John Harrison Reviews the first year of the Business Expansion Scheme (BES). Concludes that it was not an unqualified success. Adds that the 1989 budget offered a good opportunity for investment in assured let tenancies. Assesses the possibilities by region. Discusses demand and opportunity...

..., mainly because of the strategic advantages of their location between the M25 and the continent. © MCB UP Limited 1989 France Investment Property markets United Kingdom THE CHANNEL TUNNEL CORRIDOR Katherine Allcock 1993 will be the first time for over 5,000 years that Britain will have...