Death of the high street: identification, prevention, reinvention

Location is of paramount importance within the retail sector, yet defining locational obsolescence remains overlooked, despite significant concerns over the viability of parts of the complex sector. This paper reviews the existing literature and, through this, explores retail locational obsolescence, including the multi-spatial nature of the driving forces that range from the global economy, local markets and submarkets, to individual property-specific factors; and, crucially, the need to disentangle locational obsolescence from other important concepts such as depreciation and functional obsolescence that are often mistakenly used. Through this, a conceptual model, definition and diagnostic criteria are presented to guide future studies, policy development and the allocation of resources. Importantly, three stages are presented to enable the operationalization of the model, essential to future academic and industry studies as well as the ongoing development of policy in this economically important, complex and contentious area

Determination of digestibility as the basis for energy evaluation of feedstuffs for pigs

The authors summarize the methodologies to perform digestibility experiments in pigs: animals and housing, duration, diets and feeding, collection and treatment of faeces, chemical analyses, calculations, and indicator techniqu

Market Share in the Real Estate Brokerage Industry

This paper is concerned with the factors that determine the market share of listings and the market share of sales for brokerage firms. Models are developed and tested in a SMSA that conveniently corresponds exactly to a particular Multiple Listing Service area. Indices of firm specialization and market concentration were computed in addition to more conventional characterizations of the market and the data used in the study.The regression results reveal a small degree of consistency in the impacts of the explanatory variables over the two years of the study and over the listing and sales markets. The number of salespeople is the most consistently significant variable. Indeed, market share per salesperson appears to be a non-monotonic function of the number of salespeople. The presence of a franchise and the quantity of display advertising are occasionally significant. Classified advertising, "Yellow Pages" advertising, and open houses all do not significantly affect market share per salesperson. Copyright American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association.

Do Syndications Pay More for Real Estate?

Syndications have been widely used in real estate investment in recent years. Some have argued that syndications have been paying significantly higher prices than other forms of business organization. Using a sample of apartment transactions, we tested for price differences among alternative ownership forms. The results indicate that the null hypothesis of equal price cannot be rejected. Copyright American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association.

Automated valuation methods in atypical real estate markets using the mono-parametric approach

The appraisal objectivity depends on the possibility to quickly and easily access to reliable real estate data in order to apply appropriate appraisal approaches. In order to ensure the objectivity of the real estate appraisals, in recent years Automated Valuation Methods (AVM) have been developed, integrating computerized real estate databases and programming languages. The Automated Valuation Methods proposed at international level usually recur to regression models, aimed to return appraisal equations based on reliable real estate databases. This approach is not applicable in some markets where lack of data does not allow the implementation of regression models. This paper proposes to implement a valuation automatic method in order to appraise properties located in atypical markets, structuring a procedural algorithm based on the mono-parametric approach and able to return punctual values related to the subject’s specifics and to the market peculiarities in a very limited area. The paper proposes also the application of similarity degree coefficients in order to take into account the differences between the amounts of the real estate features, leading to the possibility to use the mono-parametric approach also when lack of data would not recommend it