Property Management: Volume 22 Issue 3

Market orientation in social housing management

Vincent Gruis, Nico Nieboer

States that social housing has traditionally been provided through bureaucratic mechanisms, and as a consequence landlords have operated mainly in a task‐oriented way. Reports…

Comparing hedonic models for estimating and forecasting house prices

Mike Fletcher, Jean Mangan, Emily Raeburn

In published work on hedonic house price estimation it is not uncommon to examine some of the conditions required for the estimators to have desirable properties such as minimum…

Strategic housing management: An asset management model for social landlords

Vincent Gruis, Nico Nieboer

As a result of changes in housing policy in the 1980s and 1990s, social landlords in several European countries have to manage their stock in a more commercial way. They have to…

Urban land zoning for taxation purposes in Ukraine: Possible methods under an immature land market

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…

Housing investment in an institutional portfolio context: A review of the issues

Joaquim Montezuma

Residential property in a multi‐asset portfolio context has been considered from two substantially different perspectives: institutional investor's and the household's…

The value of the provision of a balcony in apartments in Hong Kong

Kwong Wing Chau, Siu Kei Wong, Chung Yim Yiu

In Hong Kong, a balcony is often perceived as a “green” provision in modern residential buildings. However, how the market values the benefits of balconies is seldom studied due…