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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"real property"”.
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Real property portfolio management : a decision-support model
In the 1980's corporate real estate has assumed a more active role in the strategic planning of American corporations. However, the tools to accurately evaluate the performance of corporate real property portfolios are still at a very rudimentary stage in their development. This thesis concentrates …
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Balancing financial and strategic aspects of real property portfolio management
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1990.
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Pricing Large-Ticket Capital Assets: The Case of Residential Income-Producing Real Property
The selling price of large-ticket capital assets has been hypothesized to increase as time on the market increases in previous theoretical literature. However, the results of empirical studies using single-family houses have been inconclusive. This study extends the previous empirical work by using …
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Islamic Mortgages and Home Finance Under the Law of Real Property in England and Wales
… whether an Islamic mortgage satisfies the property law definition of a legal mortgage and whether the term ‘Islamic mortgage’ accurately encompasses all other forms of Islamic home finance. To achieve this, the thesis proposes definitions of Islamic mortgages and other Islamic home finance …
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‘Home’ Among the Gumtrees: The Experience of Home under Australian Real Property Law and in Property Theory
… presented which demonstrate areas of Australian property law undermining that home experience for individuals in housing. Having demonstrated the capacity for property law to undermine home, the thesis advances proposals for legislative reform in relevant areas to better protect the home …
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Is it Worth it? The Effect of Local Historic District Designation on Real Property Values in New Orleans, Louisiana
This is a study of the change in property values over a ten year period, from 1993 to 2003, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Sales prices for the entire city are compared to sales prices in two locally designated historic districts and one control neighborhood. The intent of the paper is to identify the …
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Comparing rural land parcels transferred with all rural land parcels using local real property tax records: a case study in three Virginia counties
… on rural land is needed by land owners, realtors, investors, appraisers, government officials, and researchers to make effective economic and policy decisions involving land. One source of information that could meet this demand is local real property tax records. These records …
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The effect of the flue-cured tobacco (U.S. types 11 and 12) price support program on the sale value of farm real property
The problem considered in this study arose from the need for an emperlcal analysis of the sale value of land to determine if the increased price benefits of the governmental flue-cured tobacco program have been absorbed by higher land rents. If acreage allotments giving the right to produce tobacco …
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Privatization of buildings and land : the case of El Salvador
… transition to market economies and management of real property portfolios (RPP) --- t.he building and land stock of a government. For political and technical reasons the Government of El Salvador's (GOES) process of privatization is unlikely to occur in the near future, in ways that could …
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Mapping and Qualitative Data Collection for People-First Floodplain Buyout Processes Harris County, TX 2000-2021
… data about those participants exists in real property records found within County Clerk files that is useful for collecting demographics, legal proceedings, and post-buyout geographical information for research that supports transparency and equity in future buyout processes. This applied …
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Does low-income homeownership work? The effects of titling among beneficiaries in Cape Town and Lusaka
The provision of real property rights through titling and informal settlements upgrading is widely imagined to have considerable direct and indirect effects on urban poverty. The evidence for such effects is, however, scarce, partial rather than holistic, and subject to methodological difficulties. …
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The taxation of mineral property in Virginia
All real property in Virginia, including mineral land, improvements thereon, and minerals, is reserved for localities as a source of tax revenue. The ad valorem taxation of mineral property has traditionally been a responsibility of county commissioners of the revenue. Because of the technical …
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Banking on land: A critical review of land banking in the United States
… One symptom has been the abandonment of real property; whether households abandoning over-leveraged and underwater mortgages, landlords getting out from beneath unprofitable commercial structures, or large industrial operations shuttering. In urban areas, large quantities of abandoned …
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A model for performance management in real properties using statistical techniques
Within Real Property Portfolio Management. there is a conscious search for new methodologies to improve building management practice, particularly for facilities in use. An approach in this direction is realized by the application of Statistical Quality Control (SQC), a technique used for …
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Organizational structure in the hospitality industry : a comparative analysis of hotel real estate investment trusts (REITs) and hotel C-Corporations
Current legislation has made it possible for real estate investment trusts (REITs) to earn income beyond purely passive sources such as rents from real property or interest from mortgages on real property. As a result, both the number and market capitalization of hotel REITs have substantially …
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The widow's might: Law and the widow in British fiction, 1689-1792.
… its actual counterpart the directive relation to property granted to widows by English law: unlike a wife, a widow had a separate legal identity and could hold real property as could a man. Common law dower granted her a life interest in her husband's estate, but over the course of the eighteenth …
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The Inclusion of Land Within a Personal Property Security Act (PPSA) Framework in Anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study of Ghana
… the inclusion of land within a Personal Property Security Act (PPSA) framework of modern secured transactions in Ghana, as an example in Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa. This consideration is in the broader context of the main intellectual debates about secured transactions law reform, …
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Environmental liability, policy and technology in real estate development
… et seq., "owner/operators" of contaminated real property may face cleanup costs that greatly exceed the value of the property. CERCLA liability is retroactive, is imposed without regard to fault, and - unless the defendant can prove divisibility - is joint and several. Moreover, …
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Making Space: Gardens and Social Identity in Early Modern English Literature
… imagine another context for holding land and real property. In my fifth chapter I show how in Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (1621) Lady Mary (Sidney) Wroth uses settings and images that represent women gardening, embroidering, and writing, to emphasize that they are all equally examples of …
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