Pricing and Time on the Market for Residential Properties in a Major U.K. City

The pricing and length of time to sell single-family residential properties is a function of the interaction between buyer and seller behavior. This study estimates value effects in relation to the time on the market for residential properties within the Belfast (U.K).metropolitan area. Three distinctive characteristics of market are highlighted. First, the majority of sales are at a premium to the list price. Second, different factors influence time on the market for premium and discount sales. Third, the marketing period is examined for three events: listing to sales agreement, sales agreement to completion, and listing to completion.

ARES and the Formation of the International Real Estate Society

Since 1991 the American Real Estate Society (ARES) Board has been working with representatives from around the world to establish an umbrella organization--the International Real Estate Society (IRES). The intent of the organization is to link real estate researchers and educators on an international basis. This paper highlights the progress that has been made and the role ARES has played in establishing IRES, as well as the two new regional societies--the European Real Estate Society and the Pacific Rim Real Estate Society. Along with ARES, these organizations were the founding members of the International Real Estate Society.

Os novos desafios do planejamento urbano em contextos de crescentes processos de financeirização

A tarefa de prover um solo urbanizado tem se tornado um desafio cada vez mais complexo frente ao crescimento populacional desenfreado das grandes cidades. As projeções, a curto e médio prazo, apontam para o agravamento desta situação prevendo, até 2050, uma população global superior a nove bilhões, com um maior crescimento nos países em desenvolvimento (Overseas Development Institute 2015). Mediante este desafio e a pressão para a promoção de infraestruturas, bens e serviços públicos, os governos municipais têm encontrado dificuldades para lidar com as questões fiscais e orçamentárias do planejamento urbano. Os processos de globalização, desregularização econômica, descentralização e privatização e, os emergentes processos de fragmentação e polarização social, econômica e espacial, também têm colaborado para o agravamento deste cenário. Neste contexto, algumas cidades desenvolveram capacidades negociais e instrumentais para atrair investimentos de capital financeiro para solucionar os problemas de restrição orçamentária municipal e dar respostas às necessidades locais. Os projetos de desenvolvimento urbano têm sido apontados como o grande palco para a atração do capital global. Para tal, a inovação de instrumentos financeiros e a combinação entre vários deles tem sido a esperança para o desenvolvimento economicamente sustentável de grandes áreas da cidade. No entanto, sob a influência e pressão do mercado de capitais, alguns pesquisadores apontam que tais projetos e instrumentos podem ser responsáveis por uma descontextualização do ambiente construído e das necessidades locais, colocando as cidades como reféns de um processo de financeirização do ambiente construído e das políticas urbanas. Assim, mediante este cenário, torna-se necessária uma reformulação no processo de se planejar e formular novas políticas e instrumentos urbanos.The task of providing developed land has more and more become an increasing challenge, considering the immoderate population growth of big cities. The medium and long-term projections point out an aggravation of this situation, and anticipate a global population over nine billion people by 2050, being the greatest growth registered in developing countries (Overseas Development Institute 2015). Through this challenge and the pressure to provide public infrastructure, goods and services, municipal governments have hardly deal with urban planning fiscal and budgetary issues. Globalisation, economic misadjustment, decentralization and privatisation processes, and the resulting phenomena of fragmentation and social, economic and spatial polarization have also worsened this scenario. Against this background, some cities have developed negotiation and instrumental capabilities to attract financial investments in order to surmount municipal budgetary restraints, whereas responding to local needs. Urban development projects have been pointed out as the great stage for the attraction of global capital. But to reach such a goal, innovation in financial instruments and the blend among them has been the hope for the economic sustainability of development in citiesŽ major areas. However, under the influence and pressure of capital markets, some researchers point out that such projects and instruments may involve a de-contextualization in the built environment and local needs, rendering cities hostages to financing processes of the built environment and urban policies. Thus a reformulation of urban policies and instruments is required in order to face the increasing financialization processes that accrue from the global contemporary dynamics

The role of UK universities as economic drivers in a localisation agenda : A case study of City Deals.

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External funding of major capital projects in the UK Higher Education sector: issues of demand, supply and market timing?

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Calibration of stakeholder influence in the UK higher education sector

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Reading Human Sex

This article charts the feminist perspectives that have come out of the author’s thinking on the dance performance text Human Sex and how this has informed her own feminism. In doing so, the author argues that a feminist agenda is shifting and dynamic but also reliant upon prior readings and interpretations that provide the point of reference for a departure to other readings and perspectives. Using autobiographical material, the author highlights the importance of considering the personal histories of subject-hood that influence a feminist consciousness and how these are the condition of possibility for making other readings. To demonstrate the shifting character of identity over time, she engages in different readings of Human Sex through the work of feminist theorists Sara Ahmed, Judith Butler and Peggy Phelan