International Approaches to Real Estate Development

Graham Squires is a Senior Lecturer in Planning at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the co-author of Introduction to Building Procurement and author of Urban and Environmental Economics.Erwin Heurkens is a Lecturer in Urban Development Management at the Department of Real Estate and Housing, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. He is the author of Private Sector-led Urban Development Projects.

• 1. Introduction: Introducing International Approaches to Real Estate Development 2. United States: Towards Sophisticated Enterprise from Small Private Market Local Entrepreneurs 3. United Kingdom: Growth, Structure and Priorities of the UK Real Estate Development Industry: The Longstanding Division between Commercial and Residential Developers 4. Netherlands: Surviving the Crisis by Searching for ‘Smart’ Alternative Strategies from Neighbouring Countries 5. Hungary: The Case of Post-Socialist Urban Planning in Budapest, Hungary 6. Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, and Qatar: Middle Eastern Complexity and Contradiction 7. Ghana: Impact of Land Use Planning on Real Estate Development Return in a Developing World Context: A Case study of Ghana 8. Chile: Latino Gentrification from the Santiago ‘City-Heights’ Chile 9. India: Real Estate Development in the Fastest Growing Free Market Democracy 10. China: From a Planned Welfare-Based Public Housing System to a Market-Oriented Real Estate Industry 11. Hong Kong: The Speculative Rather than Technical Real Estate Property Market Process 12. Australia: Dark and Light through a Looking Glass 13. Conclusion: Concluding International Approaches to Real Estate Development

"[T]his book provides a wide spectrum of real estate development approaches in a range of markets, which can be viewed through an institutional lens to understand the linkages in "environments, markets, agencies, processes and outcomes". It is an important reference source for students and researchers, and paves the way for stimulating further comparative research, particularly between the global south and global north." – Piyush Tiwari, Construction Economics and Building, University of Melbourne, Australia