scholarly journals Enforcing the ADA and Stopping Serial Litigants

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Cameron Saenz
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Commercial Real Estate ◽  
Real Estate Industry ◽  
Commercial Property ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Property Owners ◽  
Legal Challenges ◽  
Title Iii

This comment explores the evolution of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) and argues for a new and more effective implementation of this important anti-discrimination law through the real estate industry. First, this comment discusses the intricacies of the ADA, including its revisions over time and impactful legislation it has spawned. Second, this comment addresses current practical and legal challenges to enforcement of Title III of the ADA, including commercial property owners’ lack of understanding ADA responsibilities, serial litigation, and standing in courts. Finally, this comment proposes a new emphasis on ADA enforcement within the real estate industry. Such focus would obviate the need for many private lawsuits, place responsibility for ADA enforcement on parties involved in commercial real estate transactions and result in more effective implementation of both the spirit and letter of the ADA.

scholarly journals Real Estate and the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Europe

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianluca Mattarocci ◽  
Simone Roberti
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Commercial Real Estate ◽  
Disposable Income ◽  
Economic Environment ◽  
Site Visit ◽  
Real Estate Industry ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
Building Type ◽  
Real Estate Sector

The real estate industry was severely affected by the COVID-19 in both the residential and the commercial sectors due to travel and site-visit limitations, rent sustainability issues and a decrease or higher uncertainty about disposable income. During the lockdown, houses became more important and were analysed in depth. It can be assumed that a new demand could emerge after this crisis making households looking for more comfortable houses since this asset will increase its importance for living and working. Similarly, the commercial real estate sector will change due to lower rent sustainability. However, the main expected change is related to the building type and the standards requested by tenants in the new economic environment.

Representations of gender in annual reports in the real estate industry in Sweden

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Maria Staffansson Pauli
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Commercial Real Estate ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Real Estate Industry ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Real Estate

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to clarify how annual reports of public housing and commercial real estate companies contribute in “doing gender” of the real estate industry in Sweden. How the issue of gender is dealt with in photographs, in two different types of organizations, with different corporate and business strategies, is important as they play a significant role in constructing the industry itself. Are there any differences in how they perceive gender, and what constitutes gender of the industry? Design/methodology/approach – Analysis of photographs in annual reports, 14 public housing companies and eight commercial real estate companies, in the year of 2011. Findings – The paper provides empirical insights about how “gender is done” in annual reports, men alone are shown more often as employees and both women and men are portrayed in stereotypical positions. Women are depicted more often as young and also presented in “token positions”. Research limitations/implications – Because of the chosen research approach, in studying only one year, a longitudinal study would be recommended for future studies. Practical implications – The paper includes implications for the development of gender symbols and images representing the industry, in how gender is done in public situations as in annual reports. This is not only important for the industry itself but also to stakeholders involved with the industry. Originality/value – This paper fulfils an identified need to study how photographs shown in annual reports reveal gender structure.

scholarly journals Real Estate Market Performance in Nigeria: Longitudinal Evidence from Residential and Commercial Property Sectors in Port Harcourt

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (07) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley Chika Nwaogu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Real Estate Market ◽  
Commercial Real Estate ◽  
Sample Size Determination ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
Commercial Property ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
Port Harcourt ◽  
The Real Estate Market

The low transparency characterization of the real estate market in Africa presents an antithesis to the promising potentials of the market to global real estate investors and mutual funds. In spite of this, there appears an asymmetric synchronicity between increasing global attention towards investment potentials of the Sub-Saharan African real estate industry and an almost 50% market opacity. In addressing this anomaly, the study examines residential and commercial real estate returns from a Nigeria, using Port Harcourt city as test market. It has objectives of determining the rental value trend of residential and commercial properties in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and the longitudinal rental growth rate of residential and commercial properties in the study area. The study employed qualitative technique to collect, peruse and analyze data from valuation reports obtained from Estate Surveying and Valuation firms in the study area. The resulting data were subjected to content analysis, Analysis of Variance and Correlation. The population of the study was all residential and commercial properties which have been subjected to rental valuation by designated professionals over the periodic scope of the study. Therefore, the unit of analysis was all rental valuation reports on residential and commercial properties in the study area. Given the infinite nature of the population, Godden (2004) formula was used for sample size determination of 384. It was found that rents from residential and commercial property investments in Port Harcourt, Nigeria recorded a steady increase within 2009 to 2018, with mean rental growth rates of 10.8% and 17.8% for residential and commercial properties respectively. It was concluded that the real estate market in Port Harcourt is a high performing market, with the commercial sector offering high return on investment potentials for investors.

Study on Business Integration Strategy for Real Estate Development

2013 ◽  
Vol 838-841 ◽  
pp. 3135-3141
Author(s):  
Yi Yong Lin ◽  
You Song Wang
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Cost Model ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Real Estate Industry ◽  
The Real ◽  
Real Estate Enterprise ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
Management Capacity ◽  
Product Optimization

Based on the features of the real estate industry, a cost model was established for analyze integration strategies. The analysis results show that a real estate enterprise should give a priority to integration of the business activities, of which the costs themselves are not large but which will greatly influence the whole project and other development business activities; and that the integration in a real estate enterprise is influenced by the product optimization degree, the business management capacity, and the degree of market competition. The integration in the real estate industry is influenced by the product optimization degree and the business management capacity, but it has nothing to do with the degree of market competition.

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