Call number: LD2668 .T4 1946 L85 / Master of Science

published_or_final_version / Real Estate and Construction / Master / Master of Science in Real Estate and Construction Development

published_or_final_version / Real Estate and Construction / Master / Master of Science in Construction Project Management

The "unusual" behavior of agricultural land prices is the subject of considerable debate and controversy and is the object of this research. There is little doubt that land prices have been increasing steadily since 1959 and dramatically throughout the decade of the 1970's. However, there is widespread disagreement among economists, appraisers, and other interested parties as to the causes of the dramatic increases in land prices. Net agricultural income is undoubtedly an important factor in the agricultural land market. Yet, land prices have continued to increase in the face of steady and even declining net incomes. Other factors often considered as exerting considerable influences are inflation, pressures from an increasing population, incentives to attain economies of size through ranch enlargement, and capitalization of government farm program "payments" into land values. The objective of this research is to identify the factors that exert significant influence on agricultural grazing land sale prices in two Eastern Oregon counties and to assess the impact of changes in these factors on the selling price of grazing land. A single equation linear regression model is used to identify the factors that have a significant impact on the price of grazing land. The variables determined to be positively correlated to the price of grazing land are the productivity of the land, the price of feeder cattle, inflation, and the assessed value of real property included in the land sales. The price of hay is negatively correlated with the price of grazing land. The inclusion of public land (USFS and BLM) grazing privileges in the sale was found to have no significant effect on the price of grazing land. In addition, purchases for the purpose of ranch enlargement are occurring at lower prices than purchases for ranch establishment. The major limitations of this study are the restrictions placed on the sales that are analyzed and the problem of standardizing a measure of land productivity. The first limitation is defensible given the stated objectives of the study and the need to limit the analysis to a roughly homogeneous class of land sales. The latter limitation prohibits generalization of the results to other areas without appropriate standardization of the measure of land productivity. / Graduation date: 1979

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This research is an attempt to determine the reasons for the problems currently being experienced in Dubai in the implementation of the Dubai Law Concerning Ownership of Jointly Owned Properties.  Although the Dubai Law has applied to Dubai for almost three years and is a very young law, most of the shortcomings can be attributed to the delay in the promulgation of the envisaged implementing regulations including the Master Community Declaration, the Building Management Statement and the Association Constitution.  This has motivated the writing of this thesis which seeks to examine and analyse the entire system of jointly owned property ownership in the Emirate of Dubai.  The emphasis is on the establishment of the jointly owned property schemes, the physical division of jointly owned property schemes into units and common areas, the allocation of share units in jointly owned property schemes, the rights and obligations of unit owners with regard to their units and the common areas, the enforcement of financial and social obligations, settlement of disputes and finally the management of jointly owned property schemes. An examination of the differences between the Dubai Law and several other systems has been made to find out why one works better than the other.  Does the problem lie in the nature of the governing legislation, the procedures of the Competent Authority namely, the Land Department and the Real Estate Regulatory Agency for applying and obtaining registration of a jointly owned property plan, the laws and practices relating to the development, construction, financing and conveyancing of jointly owned property or a combination of all these factors?  The insights gained by the examination of the jointly owned property industry, reveal whether the problems and issues currently faced on the ground have been the result of the law or have been caused by other factors beyond the scope of solutions prescribed by the law. The present legislation in force for jointly owned property in Dubai has provided an adequate legal structure for all the matters discussed above.  From my evaluation of the various aspects of the Dubai Law Concerning Ownership of Jointly Owned Properties, it appears that there is room for improvement in virtually every aspect examined in order to keep up with the rapid growth of jointly owned property schemes in Dubai and all over the United Arab Emirates.  In addition, the housing delivery system in Dubai must change.  Officials involved in the approval and registration of jointly owned property schemes have to be properly trained in order to ensure that they have the required knowledge of the law and care should be taken to recruit more qualified personnel in the related Offices.

7 Abstract Disposition with real estate falls within the scope of present diploma thesis. The main goal of the thesis is the comparison of two legal orders which are, in many ways, similar; nevertheless, there might be found some differences which are described in textual matter. The thesis itself is divided into six chapters redundant, reflects a reform of Czech private law in progress and compares Czech doctrine with relevant case law. It is focused mainly on real estate disposition from the point of view of private law (however, some aspects of public law had to be taken into account) and lays emphasis on legal terms such as "thing", "immovable", "property", "ownership", "disposition" in their broader meaning, and "purchase agreement" (and other topics related to them). The introduction contains the outline of the structure, main goals of the thesis and a definition of the term "disposition". Disposition is perceived, as mentioned above, in largo sensu meaning and includes not only the right to make a legal act concerning the thing but also the owner's rights to use, posses, gain benefits and destroy the thing. Chapter two deals with the historical development of Finnish land law. General legal history is also taken into consideration. The following chapter discusses various kinds of things which may be...

by Man Suk-lan, Christina, Yeung Mei-fong, Elsa. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 50). / ACKNOWLEDGEMENT --- p.i / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iii / Chapter / Chapter 1. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Scope of the Project --- p.1 / Background --- p.2 / Birth of Austerity Measures --- p.4 / Aftermath --- p.8 / Chapter 2. --- METHODOLOGY --- p.9 / Marketing Situation Analysis --- p.9 / Primary Data Collection --- p.9 / Secondary Data Collection --- p.10 / Data Analysis --- p.10 / Limitations And Obstacles --- p.11 / Chapter 3. --- THE AUSTERITY MEASURES --- p.13 / Details of Austerity Measures in Property Mkt --- p.13 / Immediate Impact of Austerity Measures --- p.15 / Chapter 4. --- LOCAL GOVERNMENT ATTITUDES --- p.20 / General Situation --- p.20 / Northern China --- p.21 / Southern China --- p.21 / Remote Areas in China --- p.22 / Chapter 5. --- STAGE I-IMPACT AND COUNTERMOVE --- p.24 / First Austerity Measures --- p.24 / Impact to the Property Market-Supplier Side --- p.25 / Impact to the Property Market-Demand Side --- p.29 / Countermoves by Developers --- p.32 / Chapter 6. --- STAGE II-IMPACT AND COUNTERMOVE --- p.36 / Second Austerity Measures --- p.36 / Impact --- p.37 / Countermoves --- p.39 / Chapter 7 . --- CONCLUSION --- p.42

Presale of residential units refers to putting the units on sale before they are completed. The value of presale to the developer comes from the flexibility of timing the presale launch so as to optimize the expected payoff. We model the developer's optimal launch timing as a real option, and the purchaser's series of presale payments with the flexibility to default as compound options. By assuming a stochastic property price process, we derive model frameworks that a risk-averse developer should adopt in launching the presale under single and multiple payment schemes. The frameworks solve the optimal conditions, contract structures, and prices for the launch. We then extend the model to optimize developers' payoffs in monopolistic and imperfect market equilibria. Finally, by assuming a jump-diffusion demand shock process and based on game theoretic approach, we derive sub-game Nash equilibrium optimal strategies that determine when and at what price developers should launch for presale with stochastic or deterministic rare market events. All the models thus derived are subject to probabilities of purchaser defaults, which will happen if the contract prices are too high when compared to market prices. Our model frameworks confirm that the launch option values increase with increases in price growth rates and variances, but decrease in risk-free rates. Furthermore, developers tend to delay the launch when good events are anticipated, while launching presale earlier at lower prices in times of expected bad events. The equilibrium strategies also provide an alternative explanation to oversupply in property markets. We further illustrate effects of rare events on presale launching strategies through government intervention (particularly public housing and housing subsidies) and output flow uncertainty in competitive equilibrium. Our general optimal strategic models are robust in a few aspects. First, we include the time factor that is crucial for some real options. Second, only slight adjustments are required to cope with market changes, or jumps. Finally, the strategies thus derived can be extensively and flexibly applied to other real options which incur multi-stage contingent payoffs, and whose price processes are characterized by stochastic jump-diffusion process. / Lai Neng. / "October 2000." / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-01, Section: A, page: 0270. / Supervisor: Ko Wang. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-192). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest dissertations and theses, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / School code: 1307.

Thesis (doctoral)--University of Wisconsin, 1913. / "April, 1914." Also paged [135]-245. Reproduction of original from Harvard Law School Library. Includes bibliographical references.