Commercial Real Estate
2004
Developers must be forced to go green Snorts of laughter from agents and blank looks from investors are the depressing sign that despite years of preaching, green issues have made little impact on the mainstream property industry. The art and science of mixed use development Why is mixed use in the news? After all, it has been around a long time. Who does what in UK real estate The property industry suffers from tunnel vision. Suddenly, property is sexy. That might seem obvious from the way house prices are soaring but behind the headlines a frenzy is also sweeping through office blocks and warehouses. Confusion over new investment vehicles Interest in property has boomed in the last few years as sacred cows including equities, endowments and managed pensions went spectacularly mad and collapsed foaming at the mouth. Auctions have been dogged by a mixture of ignorance and mistrust. Serviced business space leads recovery Serviced business space rents are beginning to recover as demand eats away rampant oversupply. What’s a yield? Pretty obvious really: the return on an investment. But what is the difference between a running yield, an equivalent yield, an initial yield, a redemption yield.
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