Property Management: Volume 4 Issue 4

Using information technology to improve property maintenance management

T.J. Pitt MSc FRICS

Introduction The objective of most property maintenance management operations is to preserve the stock and quality of the property portfolio by providing a responsive and…

New chimneys for old

Norman R. Gomm

Modern heating appliances often work inefficiently in houses built before 1966 — and sometimes in houses built since then. And that may be due to the chimney.

Reducing the risk of financial loss from fire

Martin Jarrett FRICS MACostE

Introduction The professional property manager's business is investment. He looks for good returns from his portfolio — so he needs to protect it from possible disasters. If this…

Investing out‐of‐town

John Pool FRICS

Investors are shopping around in the provinces — literally. Retail property is by far the most popular sector of the market with the whole spectrum of investors, from major…

Some effects of Health and Safety legislation on costs for flat‐dwellers

Robert Oakey FRICS

Residents of mansion blocks in London probably did not pay much attention to the Health and Safety at Work Act when it went through Parliament, over ten years ago.

Marketing and the estate agent — 2

Colin Gilligan

My previous paper focused upon the increasing pressures being faced by residential agencies and argued that the need to adopt a proactive marketing stance is now greater than ever…

Intelligent security systems

Gerry Stapley

Security systems have evolved in parallel with advances in electronic technology. Until now development has largely been substitution engineering — using modern techniques to…

Store location assessment

L. Simkin, P. Doyle, J. Saunders

Introduction This paper is a summary of an extensive research project which reviewed the store location literature and surveyed the practices of UK multiple retailers' location…

Public property potential

Michael de Styrcea MA ARICS

Land is a scarce resource, especially in the small, densely‐populated British Isles. Its use and development is an important economic activity and a significant instrument of…

The maintenance of business park landscape

Robert Holden BA DipLD ALI

An attractive landscape is one of the main features which distinguish the business parks of the 1980s from the trading estates of the 1940s. Indeed it is arguable that location…