There appears to be a current policy fascination with what rental provision from the private housing sector could offer to the UK’s housing market and to national and local economies. A plethora of reports from Parliamentary Committees, independent think-tanks, academic and professional bodies have promoted the benefits of new private rental supplies, but there seems little critical evaluation ...

Assessing the rental value of residential properties is a complex and challenging process to both practitioners and academicians because it involves analyzing the rental property, neighborhood characteristics and market conditions. The rental housing market is characterized as imperfect and inefficient, because the product is long-lasting, fixed on a given site, heterogeneous, and controlled by...

INTRODUCTION It is well-established that low socioeconomic status (SES) influences one's health status, morbidity and mortality. Housing type has been used as an indicator of SES and social determinant of health in some studies. In Singapore, home ownership is among the highest in the world. Citizens who have no other housing options are offered heavily subsidised rental housings. Residents sta...

Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service Previously, the release of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres for emergency haying and grazing was a result of drought conditions. Under new program rules, haying and grazing is now allowed on eligible acres regardless of moisture conditions under managed haying and grazing. Managed haying and grazin...

Scheduling is an enduring process where the existence of real time information frequently forces the review and modification of pre-established schedules. The real world is complex and complexity generally arises from uncertainty. From this prospective the concept of fuzziness is introduced in the field of scheduling. The present paper pertains to a bi-criterion in n-jobs, three machines fl...

N o country can ever be held in just estimation", proclaimed Arthur Y o u n g in 1780, " w h e n the rental of it is u n k n o w n " : and Y o u n g , in his Tour in Ireland, proceeded to estimate the rental of this country. 1 His w a s the rhetoric of the political arithmetician, but he w a s neither the first nor the last to e m b a r k o n aggregate calculations. Several of the best-known pa...

e-tourism has evolved as a mainstay business for tourist service providers. it plays an integral role in the dissemination of information and influencing consumer’s preferences and satisfaction. the purpose of this study is to identify the dimensions of service quality perceptions of consumers in e-tourism in the indian context. it also aims to understand the relative impact of these service qu...

This article describes a GIS prototype designed to assist with the identification and evaluation of housing that is affordable, safe, and effective in supporting the educational goals and parental status of youth transitioning from foster care following emancipation. Spatial analysis was used to identify rental properties based on three inclusion criteria (affordability, proximity to public tra...

This paper constructs a quantitative lifecycle model with uninsurable labor income and aggregate housing return risk to assess how Korean households make saving and portfolio allocation decisions. The model incorporates the special roles housing plays in the portfolio of households: collateral, a source of service flows, as well as a source of potential capital gains or losses. In the model, a ...

With the rising trend of e-business and IT outsourcing, emergence of Application Service Providers (ASP) can satisfy the needs of numerous small and medium enterprises (SMEs), which in usual has a shortage of information technology professionals and appropriate cost-effective software applications. An ASP is a mode of software services offered through rental. This type of arrangements enables c...