Banking and real estate have always had an uneasy relationship. It was not until early this century that national banks were even permitted to extend loans collateralized by real estate. To this day, national banks, bank holding companies, and many state-chartered banks are prohibited from owning real estate directly, except when obtained through foreclosure or if used for bank premises.~ In ad...

In recent years, with the regulation of national policy, Chinese real estate market has been rapidly cooling, and real estate enterprises also have difficulties in financing. Perpetual bonds as a historic mezzanine financial instrument abroad was formally introduced into China in 2013 and its own characteristics can satisfy the current needs of the real estate enterprises. This paper analyzes t...

From a geoinformation science perspective real estate portals apply non-spatial methods to analyse and visualise rental price data. Their approach shows considerable shortcomings. Portal operators neglect real estate agents' mantra that exactly three things are important in real estates: location, location and location [16]. Although real estate portals record the spatial reference of their lis...