© 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Published 2012 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Beyond its social and political role, housing has long been a critical ec onomic sector in all developed societies. There have historically been three ways in which it played this economic role: as part of the construction sector, as part of the real estate market and as part of the banking sector in the form of mortga...

Operating costs are an important, but not much studied, component of apartment financial performance. This paper establishes an economic framework for interpreting operating costs and uses a unique data set to investigate the determinants of operating costs. Empirical results are consistent with theory and indicated that housing quality is a strong driver of operating costs; older properties mu...

INTRODUCTION There is a clear need for diverse, high quality housing that is not being met, and is not likely to be met through established methods. In Wales, we are building approximately half the new homes that are needed. Changing demographics mean that people need different forms of housing, in different locations. Much of the housing that is currently being built may not serve us well in t...

This paper employs panel data on 413 German counties and cities from 2004 to 2009 to investigate the supply of new single-family housing in local housing markets. New local housing supply is measured by the annual number of construction permits in relation to the existing single-family housing stock. This supply indicator is econometrically related to existing home prices and new housing develo...

Bricks in predicting its acceptability for housing in Lagos State, Nigeria. Author(s): Alagbe, O. A., Adewale, B. A. and Alagbe, T. O. (2014). Outlet: CIB Conference on Construction in Developing Countries and Its Contribution to Sustainable Development, Lekki, Lagos. Date: 28-30 January, 2014 Abstract: Compressed Stabilized Laterite Bricks (CSLBs) has been canvassed as a viable alternative to ...

Rural housing land accounted for 67.3% of China’s total construction land in 2000. While there are numerous studies analyzing the loss of arable land due to urban sprawl, less attention has been paid to the study of rural housing land in China. This paper develops a theoretical framework for rural housing land transition in China. It introduces a research method, which is using the spatial diff...