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Showing 1 to 20 of 259 for “"Center for Real Estate. Program in Real Estate Development."”.
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Property-level performance attribution : demonstrating a practical tool for real estate investment management diagnostics
Real estate investment firms have the ever increasing need for understanding their firm's strengths and weaknesses, their performance relative to their peers and competitors, and for developing assessment tools for facilitating more informed investment and management decisions. One potentially very …
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Risk perception of unentitled land
Even the most seemingly straightforward developments are not without risk. Given development's speculative nature, developers are taking a risk today that there will be future demand for their project at the time of delivery. Additionally, given the high fixed costs of development, such as land …
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Multifamily properties for rent in Colombia : an opportunity waiting to be seized at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
… reveal an overlooked opportunity to develop and invest in multifamily properties for rent in Colombia by examining all of the variables that make up a suitable investment. With more sophisticated investors entering the market, sky-high housing prices, desirable demographic trends for a growing …
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Property value impacts of rapid transit accessibility in Boston
… between rapid rail transit accessibility and investment property values through a series of interviews, literature and report reviews, and a quantitative empirical analysis of over 1,000 investment property sales transactions. Theory tells us that within urban environments, proximity to rail …
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The maturation and resiliency of the self-storage asset class
… thesis affirms that self-storage is further maturing into a core type asset class in juxtaposition to the characteristics of the traditional core asset types: multifamily, office, retail and industrial. This shift is shown by an increased participation of traditional core investors in the space, …
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Conversion of residential neighborhoods into affordable assisted age-in-place communities
… of this thesis is to develop a new senior housing and service product for the aging population of the next decade. The thesis starts with an overview of the senior housing industry in its current condition in 2011. It discusses the demographic characteristics of the population, the senior …
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Beyond real estate : examining global real asset allocation frameworks for institutional investors
Real estate is often considered an asset to provide long term value enhancement and to protect institutional investors against inflation risk. It is a typical real asset due to the physical form and fixed geographic location with a steady return. However, real estate has its limitations. Risks …
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What makes a good hotel market? : a panel based approach to examine lodging demand drivers
In early 2010, the hotel industry began a historic demand recovery. Across hotel sectors, demand growth pushed rooms occupied above the previous year's figure by more than 10% - almost doubling peak quarterly year-over-year growth. The hotel industry has recovered ahead of the economy for the first …
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Financial impact of workplace performance on effective rents : a study of the Manhattan Office Market
Corporate real estate is increasingly seen as a strategic resource contributing to organizational performance rather than a mere operational asset focusing on overall business cost efficiency. There is considerable upside to be realized in making workplaces more efficient, productive and more …
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Examination of the rationality of real estate market pricing : focusing on the US office property market
This study examines whether or not investors behave rationally when they price the U.S. office properties. After reviewing several previous studies on the market efficiency, this paper makes three new attempts: first, we employs the actual information on transactions and rents at the property level …
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Recognition of business opportunities for Chinese private investors in U.S. real estate market
Real estate investment is becoming increasingly international. As China's economy rises as a major force in the world, its continuous growth in fiscal surpluses and accumulation of wealth are making up an expanding segment of the capital market. Traditionally, state-owned enterprises (SOE) and …
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A comparison of structural and non-structural econometric models in the Toronto office market
… It compares four structural systems differing in their demand equations and a non-structural system that does not require predefined relationships to exist between variables. Within the structural system of equations the predefined equations require that real rent is estimated solely from …
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Effects of land policies and development strategies on housing : a case of Hong Kong
The objective of this thesis is to investigate the effects of land supply on housing prices in Hong Kong. Studies will be carried out to define whether there are any correlation between land supply, housing supply and residential property prices. In order to better understand Hong Kong's housing …
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Feasibility, benefits and challenges of modular construction in high rise development in the United States : a developer's perspective
Modular construction has long been utilized in the construction of residential and many other commercial product types as a means for potentially quicker construction delivery times. Over the past 5 years this construction technique has slowly been introduced into the high rise residential market …
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Chinese outbound investments in the U.S. real estate market : analysis and perspectives
Chinese outbound investments have expanded rapidly in recent years and drawn wide attention in the U.S. real estate market. Unlike previous waves of Chinese investment in the past two decades, this batch of capital inflow shows various types of institutional players investing in almost all property …
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The potential of senior housing development and investment in Mexico
Worldwide, the elder population is growing- the number of people aged 60 years or over will be 1.4 billion by 2030, an increase of 56% from 2015. As a growing economic force, the elderly will require more specialized services such as housing, health care, transportation, pension plans, and public …
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The relationship between the Massachusetts' building code and construction cost escalation
Over the last twenty years in Massachusetts, there has been significant focus on a shrinking labor supply and material cost escalation as they relate to rising construction costs. However, there are other factors attributing to increased construction costs that are often overlooked. In these twenty …
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Negotiated and prescriptive zoning : a comparison of Boston and Seattle through the lens of Seaport Square
Permitting and executing large scale real estate developments in Boston, Massachusetts is difficult. The process is time and capital intensive due to the nature of an outdated zoning code that exists to induce project-by-project negotiation with the central permitting authority, the Boston Planning …
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Capital expenditures in industrial properties
Using a sample of 1458 industrial properties with 36,450 quarterly observations, we apply a pair of OLS models to predict property-level NOI and capex. We then synthesize the results by modeling capex as a fraction of NOI, which we treat as a measure of property capex performance. We model capex …
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SmartSpaceT̳M̳ : opportunities for a new real estate product
SmartSpaceTM, or "S2" for short, is a super-efficient, super-cool, super-small studio apartment with many built-in features designed to be built in very high density, prime, city locations. This thesis has two main objectives: 1) explore the design of SmartSpaceTM and recommend changes so that it …
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