Property and real estate

A gap has long existed between construction professionals - such as architects, engineers, quantity surveyors and consultants - and the property development process.

In every hour of each day, savvy real estate investors are accumulating vast fortunes buying foreclosed homes at bank foreclosures, pre-foreclosures, and foreclosure auctions.

Affordable and Social Housing - Policy and Practice is a candid and critical appraisal of current big-ticket issues affecting the planning, development and management of affordable and social housing in the United Kingdom.

Disease, injury, or congenital disorders result in an inability to perform activities of daily living as effectively as others.

Urban Density Contextualized provides planners with the tools to understand, assess, and implement urban density successfully.

As real estate investment trusts continue to grow exponentially in Asia and Europe - being already well established in the USA and Australasia - a comprehensive guide to the issues involved in REIT property investment decision making is badly needed.

This book seeks to identify and to examine factors and mechanisms underlying the growth and development of smart cities.

The classic guide to getting the best deal when selling a home--from America's #1 real estate expertThis latest edition of Bob Irwin's classic Tips & Traps When Selling a Home brings you up to speed on all the recent changes, regulations, and trends in real estate--whether you're new to the selling process or are an experienced home seller.

In an increasingly globalised built environment industry, achieving higher levels of integration across organisational and software boundaries can lead to improved economic, social and environmental outcomes.

The procedure of buying a home can be a scary experience.

Focusing on Chicago's West Side, After Redlining illuminates how urban activists were able to change banks' behavior to support investment in communities that they had once abandoned.

Real Estate A MUST-READ GUIDE TO REAL ESTATE INVESTING DURING TURBULENT TIMES GETTING STARTED IN REAL ESTATE INVESTING THIRD EDITION Given the current state of the economy, you might be asking yourself if right now is the right time to be investing in real estate.

Human Settlements and Energy deals with the impact of energy considerations on human settlements planning and development.

Metal Resources and Energy was initially aimed at exploring the future availability of metals and the energy required to produce them.

This book provides a novel theory of land reform and tests it using extensive original data dating back to 1900.

This informative book takes the practitioner through the requirements for Part M of the Building Regulations, explaining and expanding the guidance given in the Approved Document, and comparing the advice in BS83000 and other relevant publications.

This comprehensive guide to understanding and paying less property tax for dummies is the best-value beginners book on the market.

What promise did Sequoia Capital recognize in SKS microfinance (India) that it had also seen in Apple, Oracle, and Google?

Land, Indigenous Peoples and Conflict presents an original comparative study of indigenous land and property rights worldwide.

Research on gated communities is moving away from the hard concept of a 'gated community' to the more fluid one of urban gating.

Provides a revolutionary conceptual framework and practical tools to quantify uncertainty and recognize the value of flexibility in real estate developmentThis book takes a practical "e;engineering"e; approach to the valuation of options and flexibility in real estate.

Traditional valuation approaches are increasingly recognised as being insufficient to address the wicked valuation problems of the diverse peoples and groups that inhabit the globe from north, south, east to west.

Achieve "e;bullet-proof"e; wealth in any real estate marketThe real key to achieving sustained wealth in real estate is finding just the right investment strategy--and then learning how to adapt it to changing market conditions.

This book aims to guide researchers who are engaged in social science and built environment research through the process of testing the reliability and validity of their research outputs following the application of different methods of data collection.

Property Rights: Philosophic Foundations, first published in 1977, comprehensively examines the general justifications for systems of private property rights, and discusses with great clarity the major arguments as to the rights and responsibilities of property ownership.

Whether you're a parent planning to pass on a cottage to your children, someone who has inherited a cabin with your siblings or other relatives, or someone who is thinking about buying a vacation home, you want to know how to keep the property in the family-and avoid squabbles over it.

Solar Energy in the 80s covers the proceedings of the Conference on Solar Energy held in London.

The residential real estate market is huge and can be lucrative.

Invest responsibly and generate long-term value with the definitive guide to U.

Real Estate and GIS focuses on the application of geographic information systems (GIS) and mapping technologies in the expanding property and real estate discipline.

Traditionally, the public sector has been responsible for the provision of all public goods necessary to support sustainable urban development, including public infrastructure such as roads, parks, social facilities, climate mitigation and adaptation, and affordable housing.

Back in print for the first time in years, the Watts Pocket Handbook renews its commitment to share industry knowledge by providing technical and legal information across a comprehensive spread of property and construction topics.

This book focuses on rethinking working and living spaces and understanding how "e;greening"e; can make them healthier and their occupants happier.

Technical Due Diligence and Building Surveying for Commercial Property is the first book to introduce the process of technical due diligence (TDD) and examine the role of the building surveyor within the commercial property sector.

Real Estate: The Basics provides an easy-to-read introduction to the core concepts of the industry to students new to the subject or professionals changing direction within the sector.

Simplify Your Landlord Experience with Smart Strategies and Smarter Tools Without Landlording on Autopilot, I doubt I would have ever succeeded with rental properties.

Over the last decade, Australian governments have introduced a series of land reforms in communities on Indigenous land.

Asbestos for Surveyors is a practical reference guide for all those responsible for identifying and dealing with asbestos in buildings.

Management Science in Hospitality and Tourism is a timely and unique book focusing on management science applications.

This book develops a model to evaluate and assess life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions based on typical Australian commercial building design options.

Arid Land Irrigation in Developing Countries: Environmental Problems and Effects covers the proceedings of the International Symposium on Arid Land Irrigation, held in Alexandria, Egypt on February 16-21 1976.

Residential Property Appraisal is a handbook not only for students studying surverying but also for surveyors and others involved in the appraisal of residential property for lending purposes.

It is a widely held belief that cities must change, or they will wither and die.

The smartest investing options for today's market from a rental property expertBuying and renting out property can generate steady, reliable income year after year.

This book covers the entire cycle of becoming a successful real estate investor--providing detailed information on the Why's and, more importantly, the How's.

The importance of facilities management to the effective operation of all businesses is now widely accepted.

Energy for Rural and Island Communities III contains the proceedings of the Third International Conference held at Inverness, Scotland, in September 1983.