Adding Value by Health Care Real Estate: Parameters and Priorities

Purpose Due to the transition of the Dutch health care sector from a governmentally steered domain towards regulated market forces, health care organisations have become fully responsible for their real estate. This paper explores if/how Dutch health care organisations adopt the concept of adding value by corporate and public real estate, which...

Adaptive reuse in Dutch care accommodation

Purpose – Identifying opportunities for adaptive reuse in a changing (increasing market driven) context for Dutch care accommodation. Design/methodology/approach – Combination of two student thesis, both based on case study and decision model development. Findings – Due to new courses in the Dutch care industry functions of care accommodation...

Corporate real estate alignment strategies in Dutch higher education

Purpose – This paper aims to explore the management approaches concerned with the process of aligning Corporate Real Estate (CRE) with organizational goals on a strategic level and regarding day-to-day operating activities in higher education institutes. Methodology/approach – The paper first outlines theoretical issues of CRE alignment...

PACT: Calculating nWoW accomodation that suits the organisations' work processes

Workplace change and New Ways of Working (NWoW) seem to have become a fixed value in FM practice in the Netherlands today. Stimulated by new technological possibilities and maybe even by the world-wide crisis, companies are rethinking their office environments. The possibility to work anytime and anywhere seems key. However this requires a...

Verborgen leegstand

Door financiële en vastgoed crisissen en het nieuwe werken krimpt de behoefte aan kantoorruimte en kantoormarkten worden vervangingsmarkten zonder kwantitatieve behoefte aan nieuwe kantoorgebouwen: In Nederland staat momenteel 15% van de kantoorruimte leeg, waarvan 60% structurele leegstand, zonder perspectief op toekomstig gebruik. Bovenop dit...

Adaptability: How to accommodate changing user preferences

Purpose: When current accommodation is unsatisfactorily, office organisations consider relocating to new accommodation that optimally facilitate their main processes, supporting image and financial yield. However, due to high vacancy levels, public opinion and governmental awareness oppose new office construction. Reusing existing buildings...

Towards an index for the rental sector: A model for the Flanders housing market

Real estate development for a chaning user market

The recent collapse of the non-residential real estate development & construction market rises the question, what the future demand will be for real estate space and how these will influence future development activities. The aim of this research is to provide a framework for stock-flow analysis and forecasting of real estate development (macro,...

Surveys and forecasting industrial property demand

Determinants of the house prices in Romania: How to measure house prices in a new EU state

This paper examines the construction of real estate databases and the valuation of properties in Buz?u, Romania. One of the criteria for candidate states for EU membership is an effective monitoring system for the land and real estate markets. The objective of this paper is twofold. First, the development of a set of databases, procedures and...