Due to real estate and financial industry respectively characterized by strong and weak periodicity, this article aiming to investigate which kind of cyclical industry in the listed companies will Price/Earnings (PE) and Price/Book value (PB) be more suitable for evaluating selects the data of Shenzhen Development Bank (SDB) and Vanke A from Feb. 28 1991 to June 3

The Internet has become a significant transaction platform for the real estate industry. However, use of the Internet does not benefit homebuyers in terms of search time, flexibility, and intuitive results. While it does encourage buyers to search more intensively, and discover and visit more properties, it also wastes more time and energy. To improve the efficiency of real estate searches, we ...

Real estate industry has become a highly competitive business with an enormous amount of unstructured documents and resources. The process of data mining in such a business provides an advantage to the developers by processing those data, predicting future trends and helping them to make favorable knowledge-driven decisions. In this paper, we focus on data mining techniques and its applications...

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of decision making in the residential real estate industry. They can organize, manage, and analyze information in ways that were not possible with traditional information management systems. Although GIS are now used to perform specific business functions, their use can be magnified and extended through the creati...

This paper describes the Italian real estate investment funds industry, providing an overview of the distinctive features and risk factors of this sector. By using accounting and supervisory data, we: (1) compute the returns of the real estate assets in the portfolio of these funds; (2) construct a price index and a total return index of the real estate assets held by the Italian funds; (3) def...

Executive Summary. This article summarizes the results of a survey of 150 real estate firms designed to examine how they are attempting to adapt to the Internet and to assess their perceptions regarding its potential. Results indicate a dramatic rise (50%) in the number of firms using the Internet during the second and third quarter of 1999, and that an increasingly significant portion of those...

The presence of agency renders real estate unique from other industries where goods and services trade hands. The rise of various information and communication technologies (ICT) over the course of the past 25 years may have led to new challenges for real estate agents and allied professionals. Some scholars surmise that the increased prevalence of ICTs in various industries can become disrupti...

The Internet opens up new business opportunities for the real estate industry. It provides real estate companies with new ways to collaborate with service providers, gain customer and market information, and communicate with the customer in new ways to turn the industry into a customer-centric driven modus operandi. It also makes the real-estate market more transparent, and hence more efficient...

A stylized fact of the real estate market is that sales commission rates are extremely rigid. Earlier research has explained this rigidity by postulating either collusive behavior or barriers to entry. This paper shows that downward rigidity in rates is consistent with both free entry and non-cooperative agent behavior. When agent effort is unobservable, sellers do not prefer the lowest possibl...

Intelligent Library and Tutoring System for Brita in PuBs Project (ILTS-BPP) developed by the authors have the ability to personalize, maximum-reuse, index, analyze and integrate valuable information and knowledge from a wide selection of existing sources in all building life cycle stages. A number of tightly integrated search components (text search, audio search and video search) can be used....