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Managing An Unstable Housing Market, Brendan Williams, Brian Hughes, Declan Redmond
Managing An Unstable Housing Market, Brendan Williams, Brian Hughes, Declan Redmond
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In this paper it is intended to place the recent experience of the Irish housing market in the context of economic and property market cycles, how these interact over a property cycle and lessons from recent policy experience including interventions in the housing area. In spatial terms the current
housing market can be seen as the result of an ad-hoc development led urban growth pattern which contributed to a dispersed development pattern with problems in oversupply. It is clear that alternative options exist to this approach and that evidence based management systems in terms of planning, development and financial …
Scenario Building: A Suitable Method For Strategic Property Planning?, John Ratcliffe
Scenario Building: A Suitable Method For Strategic Property Planning?, John Ratcliffe
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The scenario method has been widely used by decision-makers in business, industry and government for over thirty years as an unrivalled technique to learn about the future before it happens. This paper examines the principles, practice and pitfalls of scenario building with the prime aim of presenting the technique as one singularly relevant to the study of future property investment, development and management decisions and land use policy formulation. The origins of the approach from its military based beginnings, through the popularised global environmental applications to the current widescale use by industry and commerce are traced. Some definitions are advanced …