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Towards Financial Risk and Housing Policy Trends

Posted on Dec 28, 2018September 22, 2019

Institutions providing access to housing in all tenures have become further entrenched and exposed to financial risk. Literature on housing policy trends and financial risk

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Resilience and housing markets: Who is it really for?

Posted on Dec 18, 2018May 6, 2019

Ten years after the Global Financial Crisis, this research examines how resilience theory and rhetoric relating to the economy and housing markets has been translated into policy and

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Home affordability declines in most New Zealand regions

Posted on Aug 16, 2017May 30, 2019

          The latest Massey University Home Affordability Report shows most regions of New Zealand have declined in affordability over the most

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Central Otago Lakes has now Surpassed Auckland as the Most Unaffordable Region in New Zealand

Posted on Apr 23, 2017May 30, 2019

The Massey Home Affordability Index takes into account the cost of borrowing as well as house prices and wage levels. This March quarter has seen

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Rising House Prices Still Drive Housing Affordability Metrics

Posted on Mar 9, 2017May 30, 2019

The Massey Affordability Index takes into account the cost of borrowing as well as house prices and wage levels. This December quarter has seen a

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Financing infrastructure development: time to unshackle the bonds?

Posted on Apr 18, 2016May 30, 2019

It is important to consider the merits of using projects bonds to finance infrastructure investment projects – in particular, the pricing of such bonds and the level

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Innovative real estate development finance – evidence from Europe

Posted on Apr 18, 2016May 30, 2019

                This research provides an insight into large-scale real estate projects in Europe and how they are using

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Methods and models for international comparative real estate development

Posted on Nov 12, 2015May 30, 2019

                      Real estate development is a significant factor in planning the built environment. It shapes

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Posted on Jun 14, 2015May 30, 2019 By Graham

Dysfunctional Neighbourhoods Exist: More Urban Regeneration Needed

                Neighbourhoods within area-based initiatives that are engaged with regeneration and renewal often experience difficulties of poverty, disadvantage

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Posted on Jun 14, 2015May 30, 2019 By Graham

The difference between property bonds and leases – and the consequences for healthcare.

                There are some 487,000 places in long-stay residential care and nursing homes in the UK representing an

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Posted on Mar 26, 2015May 30, 2019 By Graham

Innovative Development Finance in Europe

A critical review and analysis of innovative financial instruments for real estate development in Europe will be useful to EU and European national policy makers

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Posted on Nov 3, 2014May 30, 2019 By Graham

Lessons in finance bonding for affordable housing

Can finance bonding be centred more on affordable housing as well as infrastructure? Some interesting nuances and lessons can be drawn when using a Tax Increment

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Posted on Nov 3, 2014May 30, 2019 By Graham

Is Building Heritage in Enterprise Zones The Latest Threat or Opportunity?

    In considering heritage for buildings within Enterprise Zones, the central premise has been focusing on economic growth, with less thought given to the wider structural and cultural

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Posted on Nov 3, 2014May 30, 2019 By Graham

Returning to Rousseau – Is there a Contract Between Citizen and State?

          New forms of governance, conditional approaches to public service access, and initiatives to engage citizens in taking on new responsibilities

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Posted on Nov 3, 2014May 30, 2019 By Graham

A housing numbers game? The new housing quality design challenge

                The last 15 years has seen significant changes in the location, type, delivery and design of urban

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Posted on Sep 15, 2014May 30, 2019 By Graham

Future financing cities through planning and development

It is important to improve understanding of how cities can be better financed to meet challenges over the short and long-term; be they economic, social

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Posted on Jan 2, 2014May 28, 2019 By Graham

Urban water economics – putting a value, price, and cost on natural resources

Environmental resource issues involving water need to consider third-party external costs (and benefits) – water pollution being one example. Natural resource economics can be applied to this issue and set in

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Posted on Sep 2, 2013May 28, 2019 By Graham

Motivations for energy efficiency refurbishment

              The existing housing stock needs substantial adaptation to meet national and international carbon reduction targets. The largest proportion

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Posted on Jan 26, 2013May 4, 2019 By Graham

Should developers pay for public goods and services ? The Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL)

If the public purse is being squeezed we should start thinking about whether private resources should be used to fund public goods and services. When

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Posted on Jan 17, 2013May 4, 2019 By Graham

Lessons need to be learned from Enterprise Zones and Empowerment Zones

  There is a need to learn lessons when using spatially targeted fiscal experiments if intervention is to generate wider developmental benefit. For Enterprise Zone concept

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