Routledge Studies in International Real Estate
About the Book Series
The Routledge Studies in International Real Estate Series presents a forum for the presentation of cutting edge research into international real estate issues published to Routledge’s exacting academic standards. Books in the series will be broad in their conceptual scope and reflect an inter-disciplinary approach to Real Estate as an academic discipline.
The Endowment Effect and Housing Markets: Theory and Evidence from Poland
1st Edition
By Mateusz Tomal
December 26, 2025
This book aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the so-called “endowment effect” in the housing market. In a nutshell, the phenomenon of overvaluing things we own which was first conceptualised in 1980 and has since been one of the most studied behavioural biases in economics. The first ...
Marxism and Real Estate Development: Taking Lefebvre for Developers Seriously
1st Edition
By Julian Roche
September 29, 2025
This book straddles two worlds and attempts to bring them together: that of Lefebvre's Marxism on the one hand, and that of real estate development on the other. Lefebvre has now become a household name amongst many contemporary Marxists, especially those with an interest in urban planning and ...
Behavioural Economic Analysis of Institutional Changes: Lessons Learned from China's Land System Reforms
1st Edition
By Helen Bao, Lei Feng
September 15, 2025
This book examines the evolution of China’s rural land system through an integrated lens of institutional and behavioural economics. It traces seventy years of reform, from collective farming to market-oriented land transfers, to explain how central policy, local implementation and farmers’ ...
The Financialization of Latin American Real Estate Markets: A Research Companion
1st Edition
Edited
By Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera, Luis Alberto Salinas Arreortua, José Gasca Zamora
July 10, 2025
The Financialization of Latin American Real Estate Markets: A Research Companion provides an authoritative overview of the real estate asset class in Latin America with chapters covering Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Nicaragua and Chile. The focus is on the current academic research and its ...
New Frontiers in Real Estate Finance: The Rise of Micro Markets
1st Edition
By Patrick Lecomte
September 25, 2023
This book introduces three innovative concepts and associated financial instruments with the potential to revolutionise real estate finance. The factorisation of commercial real estate with factor-based real estate derivatives is the first concept analysed in this book. Methodological issues ...
Interests and Behaviours of Real Estate Market Actors in Commercial Property Valuation
1st Edition
By Alina Nichiforeanu
May 31, 2023
This book is a theory-led conceptual account of the Principal-Agent problem and related concepts of Behavioural Real Estate economics, a decade after the real estate crisis of 2008. Data from 52 qualitative interviews undertaken with appraisers, real estate brokers, and property owners is used to ...
Construction and Application of Property Price Indices
1st Edition
By Anthony Owusu-Ansah
June 30, 2021
The importance of house prices to households, real estate developers, banks and policy-makers cannot be overemphasised. House price changes affect consumer spending and business investment patterns, which in turn affect the wider macro economy and the entire business cycle. Measuring and ...
Delhi's Changing Built Environment
1st Edition
By Piyush Tiwari, Jyoti Rao
June 30, 2021
The rapid expansion, urban form and development of the built environment in the world’s second most populous city, Delhi, has been the consequence of social, political, economic, planning and architectural traditions that have shaped the city over thousands of years. Whilst seamless at times, these...
Housing Policy, Wellbeing and Social Development in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Rebecca Lai Har Chiu, Seong-Kyu Ha
June 30, 2021
This book investigates how housing policy changes in Asia since the late 1990s have impacted on housing affordability, security, livability, culture and social development. Using case study examples from countries/cities including China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, Bangladesh,...
International Housing Market Experience and Implications for China
1st Edition
Edited
By Rebecca L. H. Chiu, Zhi Liu, Bertrand Renaud
June 30, 2021
Recent rapid housing market expansion in China is presenting new challenges for policy makers, planners, business people, and citizens. Now that housing in middle-income China is driven by consumer choices and is no longer dominated by state policy decisions, housing policy issues in Chinese cities...
Residential Satisfaction and Housing Policy Evolution
1st Edition
By Clinton Aigbavboa, Wellington Thwala
June 30, 2021
This book explores residential satisfaction and housing policy trends in developing nations by using subsidised low-income housing examples in South Africa, Ghana and Nigeria as case studies. While there has been much documentation on the formation of residential satisfaction and the evolution of ...
Econometric Analyses of International Housing Markets
1st Edition
By Rita Yi Man Li, Kwong Chau
December 18, 2020
This book explores how econometric modelling can be used to provide valuable insight into international housing markets. Initially describing the role of econometrics modelling in real estate market research and how it has developed in recent years, the book goes on to compare and contrast the ...