Real Estate Investment Choices and Decision Support Systems

Development of Spatial Decision Support Systems for Residential Real Estate

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of decision making in the residential real estate industry. They can organize, manage, and analyze information in ways that were not possible with traditional information management systems. Although GIS are now used to perform specific business functions, their use can be magnified and extended through the creati...

A knowledge-based decision support system for measuring the performance of government real estate investment

This paper describes a knowledge-based decision support system for measuring the performance of government real estate investment using DEA models. We propose an evaluation framework for real estate investment, including a database, a model base, and a knowledge base, to create a tool that a government can use to deal with decision-making problems via the Internet. This decision support system ...

An Adaptive Decision Support Station for Real Estate Portfolio Management

The paper proposes an adaptive decision station to create real estate portfolios. The decision station would be useful for investors interested in real estate investment and for environments where data needs to be constantly updated by using the internet. The Findlay model was selected for the portfolio management engine of the decision station gives its simplicity and previous results. A proto...

Do Real Estate Shocks Affect Corporate Investment?

Asset Acquisition Criteria: A Process Tracing Investigation into Real Estate Investment Decision Making

Choosing the right investment option by a fund manager or analyst is the first step that contributes to the overall performance of any portfolio of assets. The decision making process is complicated. Markowitz portfolio theory (1952, 1959) laid the theoretical foundations for asset selection and management. However the decision maker is influenced by parameters outside the realm of financial th...