Can digital technologies speed up real estate transactions?

Risk Management in Real Estate Electronic Transactions

In the recent past, both consumers and real estate service providers have increasingly used the Internet to improve trading effectiveness and efficiency in the real estate market. Although Internet usage has reached phenomenal levels, the pure real estate electronic transaction, where the process is totally completed through the Internet, is still very much in its infancy. This indicates that s...

Digital disruption in commercial real estate

Structuring Transactions: The Case of Real Estate Finance

COMPLEX ECONOMIC TRANSACTIONS, especially those engaging multiple jurisdictions, are creating considerable problems in regulation and management that are taxing states’ resources. The result is that alternative support structures are generated to resolve these difficulties and lacunae (Gessner, 2008a, this volume). While states provide some legislative frameworks, the vast majority of the suppo...

Speed and Persistence for Real-Time Transactions

1 Who Needs Speed and Persistence 2 The Reference Architecture 3 Benchmark Results 4 Shared vs. Dedicated RAID Cache 6 Alternative Configurations 8 Performance vs. Cost and Risk 9 Application Examples 11 Summary 12

Can Large Economies Drive International Real Estate Markets?

There is continuing interest in the inter-relationships among real estate markets. This includes research suggesting that international linkages in real estate market returns are partly driven by the inter-relatedness between changes in local GDP and ‘world’ GDP. The current study continues this line of inquiry by examining securitised real estate market integration among six economies. By inve...