The role of housing in urban property markets

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an insight into how the demographic of international and home students in the major university cities in three European countries (France, Spain and Germany) offers investors an opportunity to provide students housing. This paper looks at how a mobile and demanding student clientele now demands, well priced, good quality and purpose built accommodation during their studies at University. This offers a good property investment opportunity. Design/methodology/approach This practice briefing is an overview of the demand factors that are creating opportunities in France, Spain and Germany. Findings This paper analyses the link between the under provision of purpose built student housing and an opportunity to develop a long-term cash flow producing investment asset. Practical implications The role of the property developers and investors is to successfully identify trends and demands and provide the assets that meet the market requirements. This paper looks at the meeting point in three major European countries for this latent and, currently, poorly served demand. Originality/value This provides guidance on how investment opportunities develop in non-traditional property markets.

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Industrial Restructuring and Change in the Labour and Property Markets in Britain

Environment and Planning A Economy and Space ◽

10.1068/a140745 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 14 (6) ◽

pp. 745-763 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

D C Thorns

Keyword(s):

Labour Market ◽

House Price ◽

Work Force ◽

Strong Relationship ◽

High Rate ◽

Industrial Restructuring ◽

Class Structure ◽

Property Markets ◽

Tenure Structure

This paper seeks to identify the interrelationships between the labour and property markets and the role of regions and the local state in Britain in order to assess their effects upon the structure of opportunities. The labour market changes over the postwar period have resulted in labour shedding in the older heavy industries and in mining and quarrying, leading to changes both in the composition and in the location of the work force. During the same period there have been major changes in the tenure structure of housing with the growth of owner occupation. There is a strong relationship between the areas which have a buoyant labour market and those which have a high rate of house price increase. The implications of these changes in the labour and property markets are examined in relation to mobility and class structure.

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Institutions at the Interface of Urban Planning and Real Estate

Real Estate Management and Valuation ◽

10.2478/remav-2019-0022 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. 17-30

Author(s):

Tom Kauko

Keyword(s):

Urban Planning ◽

Literature Review ◽

Real Estate ◽

Institutional Effects ◽

Symbiotic Relation ◽

A Site ◽

The Impact ◽

Property Markets ◽

Critical Literature

Abstract While being largely confined to different realms, planning and real estate also have a symbiotic relation. The logic of this relation varies in time and space, which makes the analysis of the balance between the two fields challenging. When we define these actions as institutions, potentially powerful analytic tools become available. This critical literature review examines some of the most relevant of them, in various specific institutional arenas, including the impact of planning on property markets and prices. The aim is to examine the role of institutions at the interface of urban planning and real estate. In other words, to see what kind of institutional effects are identifiable, whenever planning and property interests overlap. The conclusions suggest that a change in the urban fabric is likely to impact the possibility to use a site, and thereby also the value of land and built property.

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Towards a Property Market Paradigm of Urban Change

Environment and Planning A Economy and Space ◽

10.1068/a290685 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 29 (4) ◽

pp. 685-706 ◽

Cited By ~ 27

Author(s):

É D'Arcy ◽

G Keogh

Keyword(s):

Built Environment ◽

Decision Rules ◽

Urban Change ◽

Market Process ◽

Property Market ◽

Holistic Understanding ◽

Adaptive Adjustment ◽

Development Outcomes ◽

Property Markets

Conventional treatments of urban change almost uniformly ignore the role of land and property markets as essential mediators of such change. The urban built environment is assumed to be a passive adapter to structural change. However, given the complexity of property market process—in particular the disparate nature of market actors, decision rules, and institutions, the immutable characteristics of property, and the obvious constraints imposed by the existing built environment—simple adaptive adjustment is unlikely to take place. These factors can themselves be expected to play an important part in shaping urban growth and development outcomes. In response to these concerns, we propose a property market paradigm of urban change and examine its relevance in the context of six major European urban regions. The results suggest that this approach can provide a more holistic understanding of contemporary urban change than that offered by conventional analysis.

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The Role of Positional Concerns in Determining Herding: Evidence from US Residential Property Markets

10.15396/eres2021_67 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Masaki Mori ◽

Matthew Pollock

Keyword(s):

Residential Property ◽

Positional Concerns ◽

Property Markets

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Compassionate Capitalism

10.1332/policypress/9781529209259.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Catherine Casson ◽

Mark Casson ◽

John Lee ◽

Katie Phillips

Keyword(s):

Religious Institutions ◽

Property Market ◽

Property Development ◽

Religious Teaching ◽

Comprehensive Survey ◽

Economic Assets ◽

The Town ◽

Property Markets ◽

Source Of Information

This book examines the evolution of compassionate capitalism in medieval England, using a unique and comprehensive source of information, the Cambridge Hundred Rolls. It demonstrates how compassionate capitalism developed through the bequest of rental income on property to charitable and religious institutions, such as hospitals, abbeys and friaries. This rental income was generated by the dramatic growth of an urban property market, through which wealthy merchants invested the profits of trade in property development. Compassionate capitalism was a driving force in the medieval economy from the mid-1200s to the Black Death of 1348. The Cambridge Hundred Rolls record a comprehensive survey of the town in 1279, profiling property location, ownership and use, the gifting of rents and the transmission of property between generations. It identifies over 30 leading family dynasties and the factors behind their rise and decline. By synthesising this information it is possible to reconstruct the economic topography of the town and to compare the occupational structure of different parishes. This leads to a fundamental revaluation of the topography of medieval Cambridge and the role of property markets in urban development. It also reveals the influence of religious teaching on the management of economic assets by family dynasties.

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