1st Edition

Pricing and Sustainability of Urban Real Estate

By Tom Kauko Copyright 2017
168 Pages 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Urban sustainability has become a political and social agenda of global significance, of which real estate is an integral dimension. Sustainable urban development includes much more than ‘green building’ standards, yet in practice, other aspects such land use plans and locations are often overlooked. This book demonstrates that the issue of sustainable development stretches far beyond the... Read more

List of figures

List of tables

Foreword by David Lorenz

Preface

1. The sustainable urban real estate agenda: there is more to it than the ‘green’ thing

2. Economic sustainability considerations in a local real estate context (with post-bubble hindsight)

3. Assessment criteria for sustainable local price development

4. Some diagnostic issues

5. Quasi-dynamic SOM analysis of affordability in Trondheim 1993-2008

6. Quasi-dynamic SOM-LVQ analysis of quality in Amsterdam 1986-2002

7. Sustainability of urban renewal areas: cases of Budapest and Amsterdam

8. Concluding discussion: identifiable socioeconomic sustainability elements in a real estate context

Epilogue

Appendix 1: The SOM

Appendix 2: Feature maps (SOM output) of Trondheim, 1993–2007

References

Index

Biography

Tom Kauko is Senior Lecturer in Real Estate at the School of the Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University, UK.