Journal of Property Investment & Finance: Volume 36 Issue 4

Guest editorial

Georgia Warren-Myers

Automated valuation models for real estate portfolios: A method for the value updates of the property assets

Francesco Tajani, Pierluigi Morano, Klimis Ntalianis

As regards the assessment of the market values of properties that compose real estate portfolios, the purpose of this paper is to propose and test an automated valuation model. In…

Are corporate office buildings priced differently?

Odilon Costa, Franz Fuerst, Wesley Mendes-da-Silva

While broader property-type categories of real estate markets have been scrutinized at microeconomic level in some segments – namely, residential, retail, industrial and…

Expert problem solving practice in commercial property valuation: an exploratory study

Abdul-Rasheed Amidu, David Boyd

The purpose of this paper is to identify the core dimensions of problem solving of experts in commercial valuation in order to provide a rich stimulus for managing current…

Property valuation in the UK: energy efficiency legislation and its impact on valuation

Nick French, Jason Antill

The purpose of this paper is to provide an insight into how the new energy efficiency legislation in the UK is impacting upon the valuation of certain properties. This paper looks…

Pricing to market: Property valuation revisited: the hierarchy of valuation approaches, methods and models

Nick French, Laura Gabrielli

Since the global financial economic crisis hit the world markets in 2007/2008, the role of property valuation has been under greater and greater scrutiny. The process of valuation…

Property valuation in the UK: Implicit versus explicit models–the baby and the bathwater

Nick French, Niall Sloane

The purpose of this paper is to comment upon the on-going debate about the preferred use of implicit models of valuation vs their explicit counterparts. The last few decades have…