Residential Development Activity In The Polish Legal Setting

Abstract Residential development in Poland has gone through many changes over the last few decades. In the 1990s, housing cooperatives played a major role among investors in the residential market, whereas developers were only taking their first steps. Today the situation has reversed. In addition to private persons building homes for their own use, developers contribute the most to the supply of new housing. There are many factors that have led to this situation. It is noteworthy that many laws governing the real estate market, the construction market, the development of entrepreneurship, etc. have been either enacted or frequently amended over the last two decades, which may have significantly affected developers’ activities. The article is an attempt to answer the question about whether and, if so, how strongly changes in the legal setting have influenced residential development activity in Poland.

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Urban Heritage as Ethos in Resource-Based Small-Scale Property Management

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11195354 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (19) ◽

pp. 5354

Author(s):

Ingrid Martins Holmberg

Keyword(s):

Real Estate ◽

Real Estate Market ◽

Small Scale ◽

The Real ◽

The Real Estate ◽

Construction Market ◽

Urban Heritage ◽

The Real Estate Market ◽

Set Up ◽

The Right

This study puts urban heritage in the setting of property owners’ small-scale and resource-based management of ordinary old buildings. This phenomenon indicates a need not only to reconceptualize urban heritage in its actual complex web of negotiations over constraints of the regulation (urban planning, including preservation) and economy (the real estate market) but also to pay attention to the emergence of a new ethos. The case concerns a Swedish second-city context and the specific moment in time: When the 1990s recession had disarmed the real estate market. Based upon ethnographic fieldwork, this study used an assemblage perspective to allow for a following of entanglements of material and matter. The study sheds light upon the emergence of a small-scale and resource-based management in the midst of managerially defined cycles of investment. Important for the output was 1) the set-up of a network of skilled craftsmen, antiquarians, and entrepreneurs ‘of the right mindset that enabled for the authentic material result but that also helped navigate regulation and financial parties, 2) the “alternative market for reverential maintenance and repair” that guaranteed the appropriate supply of materials, products, and skills that differed from the mainstream construction market. For the means of understanding the ethos involved, the study introduced the notion of “factual life-span of buildings”. The overall aim of this article was to contribute to research on heritage urbanism by adding a resource management perspective that focusses on the entanglements of material and matter.

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Real Estate Market Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis: Which Prospects for the Metropolitan Area of Naples (Italy)?

Urban Science ◽

10.3390/urbansci5010023 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 23

Author(s):

Pasquale De Toro ◽

Francesca Nocca ◽

Francesca Buglione

Keyword(s):

Real Estate ◽

Metropolitan Area ◽

Structural Changes ◽

Leisure Activities ◽

Real Estate Market ◽

The Real ◽

The Real Estate ◽

The Real Estate Market ◽

Residential Properties ◽

Residential Market

The health emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the entire world since the beginning of 2020, changing living and working conditions. The pandemic has generated a crisis that is having and will continue to have consequences on all sectors of the economy, including the real estate market. During the lockdown period, houses became spaces for both living and working, as well as for leisure activities. Therefore, they were modified to meet the new requirements of communities forced to spend most of their time at home. This will also affect the real estate market in the near future in terms of trends and the characteristics of desirable houses. This research aims to analyse the trends in the residential market in Italy and in particular in the metropolitan area of Naples (Italy). Starting from official sources, the trends of the real estate market, and in particular in the metropolitan area of Naples from 2009 to 2020, have been analysed. Then, two surveys were conducted involving both the community and real estate agents operating in the territory, in order to investigate the effects that COVID-19 has had on the real estate market. The analysis carried out highlights structural changes in the demand for residential properties in the metropolitan area of Naples due to the new requirements as a result of COVID-19.

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Monitoring and Analysis of the Real Estate Market in a Social Perspective: Results from the Turin’s (Italy) Experience

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11113150 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (11) ◽

pp. 3150 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Rocco Curto ◽

Elena Fregonara

Keyword(s):

Real Estate ◽

Data Warehouse ◽

Real Estate Market ◽

Research Experiences ◽

The Real ◽

The Real Estate ◽

The Real Estate Market ◽

Potential Impact ◽

Residential Market ◽

Quality Process

In Italy, it has always been difficult to collect reliable data on real estate given the opacity of the information available. Keeping into consideration the actual availability of data and information, the possibility to have a structure for permanently monitoring and analysing the real estate market is fundamental. Focusing on developing and disseminating knowledge related to practices in this context, in this paper the Turin’s (Northern Italy) experience is presented, through the Real Estate Market Observatory (TREMO): This structure is based on a data-warehouse, implemented over time, with databases that lead to historic price observations of the residential market. The data warehouse is the basis for investigating methodologies and analyses, assuming the spatial requisites of the data and its georeferencing as the main discriminant in choosing among descriptive statistics, multi-varied or spatial analysis methods. In twenty years, several studies have been developed, allowing us not only to explore the applicability of models and operative modalities, but also to obtain results with a high potential impact under a social viewpoint. In this paper, the methodologies developed for implementing the monitoring structure are presented, specifically the “quality process” and computerized analysis procedures, followed by some representative research experiences with reference to aims, models and results.

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