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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Property Developers"”.
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The affordability of China's residential real estate market and opportunities for property developers
… the largest housing market in the world and the property market continues to advance at an astonishing pace. In 2009, 22.2% of China's RMB 19.3 trillion fixed asset investment and 17.9% of foreign direct investment were invested into the real estate sector. At the same time, the highly dynamic …
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Creating shared value: Investigating how micro-property developers in townships can collaborate with impact investors
Micro-property developers are social entrepreneurs operating in townships and offer high quality rental units that upholds the dignity of community members. Although they are making a valuable contribution they are also faced with many challenges and the biggest being access to funds. This study …
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Creating Intellectual Properties : A Sensemaking Study.
… This research examines the case of intellectual property developers in management development in Britain. A sensemaking study is undertaken, using conversations, sagas, mini-sagas, questionnaire and interviews. The questionnaire identified 11 intellectual property developers in Britain, whose …
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Environmental sentience of residential end-users towards design attributes.
… a situation of mismatch between end-users and property developers on design provisions. Under the theory of consumer behaviour, end-users (consumers) would maximize utility from their properties and property developers (suppliers) would maximize profit from their property developments. To …
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Exploring affordable housing finance for emerging developers in South Africa
… areas; however, the participation of emerging developers is lacking. This current study explored the barriers to entry for emerging property developers in the affordable housing property sector, focusing on the Gauteng and Western Cape provinces of South Africa. Additionally, this study is …
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Exploring the property development risks in modern South Africa and their impact on property development projects.
Property development in South Africa is inherently capital intensive and risky but has the potential to reward brave developers through high returns. The risks that property developers face is multi-layered and unique to each project, requiring discernment on the part of the developer. However, …
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A study on commercial property pricing in Uganda
Property developers and investors seek to understand the drivers of prices for office and retail space. Through literature, we learn that size and age, locational attributes, physical features of the properties, and economic variables are significant determinants of commercial property prices. …
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Selling the Fringe: Financializing Strategies and the Collapse of Local Horticulture at the edge of Auckland, New Zealand
… to examine how the profit-making strategies of property developers and landowners drastically reshapes work and life at the edge of cities. Some two-thirds of the world’s croplands are adjacent to urban centres, and the accelerating pace of urban sprawl across the planet places unprecedented …
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Residential Satisfaction and Behavioural Intentions - A Study of Private Housing in Hong Kong
… and residents’ behavioural intentions towards developers in the private housing sector in Hong Kong. It investigates the underlying dimensions of resident satisfaction and their relative importance for behavioural intentions towards property developers. Behavioural intention towards developers …
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Housing assistance and the creation of household wealth
… examines the needs of renters, home buyers, and property developers in order to identify basic criteria which a new program must meet. The third chapter evaluates individual potential elements of a new program with respect to the principles and criteria identified within the earlier chapters. …
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A GIS based planning support system for inclusionary housing profitability optimisation in Cape Town, South Africa
… Decisions by local authorities/private property developers to grant concessions/pursue projects are influenced by constraining factors applicable to the particular land parcels considered. The ease and rigour of such decision-making at both a policy and implementation level could …
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A model for predicting the performance of project managers in mass house building projects in Ghana
… survey is used to elicit the relevant data from property developers in Ghana for the construction phase of the project lifecycle. Subsequently the data is analysed using one-sample t-test, factor analysis and multiple regression analysis (stepwise). From a broad range of competency-based measures …
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The impact of inclusionary housing on property prices in Cape Town
… inclusionary principles from local government, property developers and households.
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Rethinking urban governance in China's urban regeneration - case of art space development in Chengdu
… level, government revenues depend heavily on property tax, so the government must boost property investment and attract more such investment. This has resulted in a pro-growth coalition between local governments and property developers in many creative space construction projects, with …
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Towards innovative approaches for affordable housing in the gap market : a case study of Khayelitsha Township in Cape Town, South Africa
… semi-structured interviews conducted with banks, property developers, government and residents in Khayelitsha (a state-subsidized housing settlement in the city of Cape Town), this thesis sought to understand the current challenges faced by the housing market in addressing the needs of the gap …
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The profitability of green retrofitting the building envelope of commercial buildings in Cape Town
… its capital outlay. This notion has focused property developers' attention on the construction of new green buildings, rather than optimizing existing building stock. Producing new buildings, while many existing properties are utilized on a sub-optimal level, with low rental income and high …
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The Chinese Housing Boom and Monetary Policy
… housing purchasers, commercial banks, property developers, and the central bank are considered. Chapters 5 and 6 present the results of empirical studies. Chapter 5 investigates a structural breakpoint using time series data at a national level with a vector autoregression model and a …
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LGBT-friendliness & the Promise of Inclusion: A Queering Ethnography of Inclusion in the ‘Diversity World’ of Business and the Social World of ‘Queer Activism’ in London
… fighting against the closure of a ‘queer pub’ by property developers and the Council’s promise to include a ‘replacement LGBT venue’ in the redevelopment. The thesis sheds light on how the process of inclusion is intricately connected to neoliberal practices of capital accumulation and the ways in …
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High-density affordable housing impact investing: a best-in-class project screening credit risk management model
… and deliberate capital provisions to induce the property development market to deliver the scale needed to tackle the supply-side of the problem. Inducements are needed for residential property developers to choose to develop high-density affordable rental housing on land that presents great …
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An analysis of Hong Kong REIT : current and future opportunities for investors
… markets. Being home to a handful of world-class property developers, Hong Kong, the Asia financial hub, seemed to have met all the criteria to grow a REIT market rapidly. Yet, since the enactment of the Hong Kong REIT Code in 2003, the H-REIT (acronym for Hong Kong REIT) market saw only eight …
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