...Samson Efuwape Agbato; Tajudeen Bioye Aluko; Timothy Tunde Oladokun; Ayodele Samuel Adegoke; Rotimi Boluwatife Abidoye Purpose Several institutions increasingly recognise their role in addressing the global housing crisis with initiatives focused on fostering land access by people who identify...

...Deborah Monisola Olawuni; Ayodele Samuel Adegoke; Olusegun Adebayo Ogunba; Job Taiwo Gbadegesin; Deborah Odunayo Balogun; Ibukunola Victoria Omogbehinwa Purpose The Land Use Act of 1978 is a promoter of land occupation regardless of gender. However, the marginalisation of women in the occupation...

...Victor Olutope Ige; Job Taiwo Gbadegesin Purpose This paper examines why some sets of people choose an informal way to acquire land. It also examines challenges and drivers within indigenous communities in South-western Nigeria. Policy recommendations were proposed for formalization. What...

...Lucie Severová; Roman Svoboda; Lenka Kopecká Purpose The purpose of this paper is to express the development of market price of farmland in the CR and to describe causes and effects of these changes in the price on the ownership of land in the country. Design/methodology/approach Primarily...

...Raymond Talinbe Abdulai; Edward Ochieng Purpose The assertion that land registration guarantees landownership security is common knowledge. Thus, efforts at securing landownership in particularly, the developing world have concentrated on the formulation and implementation of land registration...

...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...

...Achamyeleh Gashu Adam Purpose – The rapid urban population growth in Ethiopia is causing an increasing demand for urban land, which primarily tends to be supplied by expropriation of peri-urban land. The process of urban development in Ethiopia is largely criticized for forced displacement...

...Helen Xiaohui Bao; Helen Hui Huang; Yu-Lieh Huang; Pin-te Lin Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the volatility clustering in the return of land markets through both theoretical and empirical approaches. Design/methodology/approach – Using extensive monthly panel data...

...Nicholas Addai Boamah Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the system of development controls in the Offinso South municipality. It investigates the challenges to the development control regime. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews the land use regulation system...

...Valerie Kupke; Peter Rossini; Stanley McGreal Purpose The introduction of higher density housing development within suburban areas has been favoured by state governments in Australia as a means of improving the efficiency of land use, reducing the costs associated with the delivery of government...

... county allowed this paper to overcome the problem of “fake” addresses for TSDF sites and to introduce specific land use/zoning variables that are not used in the other studies. Findings Findings from the univariate results and the multivariate model reveal that: industrial land use and manufacturing...

...Nicky Nzioki; Catherine Kariuki; Jennifer Murigu Purpose This paper was written after the drafting of the National Land Policy was completed. The purpose of the paper is to give suggestions on the implementation of the policy. The National Land Policy reform process began in 2002 and is made up...

... of these government policies would have been to instil a greater awareness of land contamination issues in the minds of individuals and companies working with real estate. Consequently, it might be expected that the landlords of industrial real estate, and those responsible for its leasing and management, would take...

...Peter Fisher; Simon Robson; Suzanne Todd Purpose The purpose of this research is to investigate development competitions in England in order to uncover any shortcomings and point to improvements. A “development competition” is a sale by tender of publicly‐owned land with development potential...

..., for land and residential real estate the number of sources is sufficient to make a substantiated conclusion. The application of the outlined location attributes is a subject for future research. Practical implications The paper shows that the lists of important location attributes can be used...

...Daniel C.W. Ho; Lawrence W.C. Lai; Eric C.K. Ho Purpose The purpose of paper is to investigate the institutional features of the leasehold system of Hong Kong, which is predicated on the freedom of contract as an institutional arrangement for land management and planning that promotes sustainable...

...Lawrence W.C. Lai; K.W. Chau; Peter Gordon Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe conventional top‐down planning as applied to land markets – and its limitations. Design/methodology/approach The paper includes a brief survey of recent literature that sheds light on the argument...

...E.M. Hastings; David Adams Purpose The paper examines the operation of the Land (compulsory sale for redevelopment) Ordinance, one of a series of urban renewal policy initiatives introduced by the Hong Kong Government. The new institutional arrangement was mooted as a means to facilitate greater...

... the viability of the caravan park industry as a component of the property market, with the emphasis placed on its viability both now and in the future. It aims to provide a valuable insight into the direction of this relatively narrow land use, which, in turn, has wider implications for society and the broader...

...Marko Kryvobokov This paper is devoted to urban land zoning for taxation purposes in advance of the establishment of a land market. It typifies most urban areas in Ukraine, a country in transition to a market economy. The assessed values in Ukraine do not reflect market values, as the land market...