Assessment of Compliance to Building Energy Efficiency Strategies in the Development of Housing Estates in FCC, Abuja Nigeria

Compliance to local energy efficiency strategies can significantly reduce energy consumption in buildings and promote sustainability. However, Nigeria Building Energy Efficiency Code (BEEC) seems to be just paper work without enforcement or compliance. Assessment of Compliance to Green Building Energy Efficiency Strategies in the Development of Housing Estates in FCC, Abuja Nigeria was carried out. The compliance of estate buildings to BEEC in the study area was assessed;and the aspects of the building energy efficiency strategies with more compliance were determined. Data were mainly from primary sources such as questionnaire survey, interview with key informants and observation. The study population included all estate developers and building construction professionals. Data were gathered from one hundred and fifty (150) building professionals through questionnaire administration. Data collected were analysed using Z score and ANOVA and presented in tables. Results show that only 18% of respondents agreed that building complied with BEEC, and the Z score for positive affirmation is below average score. There is a significant difference in the integration of different energy efficient management strategies in the estates’ construction at 95% confidence level. The integration of measures such as window to wall ratio and window shading’ were significantly higher than other BEEC strategies such as roof insulation and minimal air condition unit (≤EER/COP of 2.8). Thus, the development of estates in FCC Abuja did not achieve energy efficiency.

Study on the roles and acting mechanism of the real estate brokerage in China second-hand housing market

As China housing reform deepens, the second-hand housing transactions become more and more popular and real estate brokerages, as an intermediary of the transactions, become an undeniable important part of this market. This article mainly explores the roles and the acting mechanism of real estate brokerages in the second-hand housing market. The results show that the participation of real estate brokers in the second-hand housing market may have positive and negative influences. On one side, brokers ease the housing transaction process and benefits buyers and sellers by shortening the sale time on the market. On the other side, if brokers are the only participants in the housing transaction, acting as buyer and seller like some firms do, housing prices will increase and this negative effect will become even stronger as the participation of many more brokers increases. Therefore, the regulation and management of the industry is vital for the long and healthy development of the housing market in China.

Research on the Impact of Market Concern for Real Estate Policy on Housing Prices: Evidence from Internet Search and Hedonic Price Theory

To avoid the effects of systemic financial risks caused by extreme fluctuations in housing price,the Chinese government has been exploring the most effective policies for regulating the housing market.Measuring the effect of real estate regulation policies has been a challenge for present studies.This study innovatively employs big data technology to obtain Internet search data(ISD)and construct market concern index(MCI)of policy,and hedonic price theory to construct hedonic price index(HPI)based on building area,age,ring number,and other hedonic variables.Then,the impact of market concerns for restrictive policy,monetary policy,fiscal policy,security policy,and administrative supervision policy on housing prices is evaluated.Moreover,compared with the common housing price index,the hedonic price index considers the heterogeneity of houses and could better reflect the changes in housing prices caused by market supply and demand.The results indicate that(1)a long-term interaction relationship exists between housing prices and market concerns for policy(MCP);(2)market concerns for restrictive policy and administrative supervision policy effectively restrain rising housing prices while those for monetary and fiscal policy have the opposite effect.The results could serve as a useful reference for governments aiming to stabilize their real estate markets.

Convenience Analysis of Public Service Facilities in the Walking Circle of Urban Housing Estates

A walkable urban built environment with convenient facilities is the key to improve the living quality of urban residents and build a livable city in the new era.Taking each urban housing estate as the center and based on walking accessibility,the walking circle of housing estates was constructed.Taking the six functional systems of convenient shopping,catering service,fi nancial service,scientifi c research and education,leisure and entertainment,and medical service as evaluation factors,and considering the actual frequency of residents’use of various public service facilities and the reduction of walking,the convenience evaluation system of public service facilities was established.Taking the urban built environment within the Second Ring Road of Shijiazhuang City,Hebei Province as an example,it is found that the convenience of public service facilities in the walking circle of housing estates within the Second Ring Road presented a circular layer distribution of“low outside and high inside”.This study will provide the reference for urban renewal and renovation and improvement of facilities.

Virtualization of Real Estate Industry and Housing Bubbles --Empirical Evidence from China

In the last twenty years, China has experienced a rapid development in the real estate industry. The continuous rising house price causes many social and economic problems and draws a lot of attentions from academia, business world and government. Many researchers shed light on this problem from different angles, but till today, it hasn’t been fully resolved. In this paper, we try to examine the real estate bubble from a virtual economic perspective. We think that the virtual feature of real estate alters its economic role from a purely living and working place to a financing instrument. We use the newest monthly data of China real estate market from 2006 to 2018 and estimate the relationship between the housing bubble and real estate industry virtualization. We identify a significant positive association between house price index and the purchase price of land in real estate investment. This result suggests that virtual feature of real estate has deepen the bubble problem in the industry and its virtualization degree appears to be closely related to the virtual feature of land and its price proportion to real estate investment.

Housing Project——New Spotlight of China's Real Estate Industry

Real estate has been one of the fastest growing sectors in China since its opening to the outside world. The sustained, steady growth of the national economy has provided favourable conditions for the rapid growth of the real estate industry, and the higher profits anticipated have attracted a large volume of overseas capital into the industry. Various real estate companies have flourished, and a number of luxury hotels, villas and holiday

Balance Between Jobs and Housing from Perspectives of Real Estate Development and Management and Urban Planning

Jobs-housing balance is the balance between employment and housing. Its philosophy has a long history and development process in urban planning. The concept of jobs-housing balance generally refers to that the number of employed people is roughly equal to the number of occupants within a certain range. This kind of balance is conducive to reducing the commuting time and the change of transportation mode on the way that the employed people spend at work. The realization of jobs-housing balance not only helps to optimize the structure between residence and employment in the region but also is conducive to improving the work enthusiasm and work efficiency of the employed in the region and reducing the commuting costs of workers in the region. In addition, the relegalization of jobs-housing balance also has a certain impact and effect on alleviating the traffic congestion and improving the environment of the region. In summary, the realization of jobs-housing balance has a multi-faceted impact on the development of a city, and promoting the balance between occupation and housing is conducive to promoting the development of the city. The realization of jobshousing balance involves many areas. In this article, In this article, the development history of jobshousing balance is sorted out from perspectives of real estate development and management and urban planning, and its development enlightenment is discussed.

Discussion on Registration Validity Doctrine of Housing Land Use Right

Relationship between the registration and right change of housing land use right is not clearly stipulated in the Property Law. Land registration involves functions of private law and public law. It is partial to only considering private rights dimension when deciding whether registration validity doctrine or registration confrontation doctrine should be implemented in housing land use right. Compilation of land use planning, implementation of land use control and promotion of arrangement project in rural residential area all rely on sound and complete housing land registration data. To clarify housing land right adscription, eliminate hidden troubles causing housing land dispute and promote the establishment of harmonious countryside can never be achieved without housing land registration data. To carry out registration validity doctrine of housing land use right can effectively guide farmers' registration behavior and thus build a perfect registration information system of housing land use right. After the cross-village and even cross-town arrangement in rural residential areas, rural acquaintance society has transformed into semi-acquaintance society and even stranger society. Therefore, housing land use right commending its existence with registration in public form has been a necessary choice in legislation.

An Oriental Rose Blossoming in the U.S. Real Estate Industry——Leeshan Birney,founder and chairman of Stone Mountain Properties

This inspiring story reminds us that well-rounded success in business, family, and community need not be elusive,especially when diligence, imagination, and love are inabundance.

The location analysis of real estate project development

Under the new situation of the macroscopic readjustment and control of the housing policy as well as the transformation of individual consumption ideas, this article has carded on the analysis on the housing location theory and its impact factors, and then emphatically pointed out the important impact of the housing location factors in the development of real estate project on urban development area and the built-up area＇s construction according to the theory, and it is expected that the developer of real estate project may benefit from the new background.

Prediction of Nanjing Second-Hand Housing Price Index Based on Markov Chain Model

Current situation of the second-hand housing market Relatively speaking,we don’t pay much attention to the second-hand housing market.Therefore,this article has certain practical significance to predict the second-hand housing prices index.In 2005,China began to pursue the reform of the real estate tax and the second-hand housing transaction must pay personal tax.In 2006,the central bank increased mortgage interest rate,the state administration of taxation introduced the business tax policy

Real-estate Market in Difficult Times

China’s housing market has been identified by some as the biggest risk to the global economy.There is unfortunately little independent data-apart from apartment sales and new project starts-to help us assess what is really going on,or what developers plan to do in terms of land purchases and price cuts.Our quarterly survey of developers attempts to fill that gap.In June-July2014,we spoke to 30 senior managers in six cities(Hangzhou,

Promotion of Housing Industrialization in Chongqing： A Case Study of Satisfying the Expanding Housing Demand of Young People

Since the city of Chongqing became a municipality on 14th March, 1997, the structure of Chongqing population has undergone tremendous changes. Especially the young, born after the 1980s, will play an important part in the future housing market. So it seems quite urgem to effectively satisfy the housing needs of young people. Massive research and practices indicate that the housing industrialization conserves the environment, improves quality and reduces cost of housing and is among the most effective ways to boost sustainable development of housing industry. The main objective of the paper is to discuss how to meet the growing housing demands of the young and concludes that housing with recreation, sports and other ancillary facilities will be better fit to the young to rent or to own. Furthermore, an analysis of the Chongqing housing market potential of young people＇s wish to rent or to purchase satisfactory housing demonstrates that some real estate investors may be failing to exploit serious opportunities that could arise from providing service to the young. And this case study of meeting the changing housing needs of the young may help accelerate the process of housing industrialization in Chongqing as well as providing a useful study concerning housing industry.

China's Real-Estate Legal System——Interview with Construction Minister Hou Jie about the Real-Estate Administration Law

The City Real-Estate Administration Law of the People’s Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as Real-Estate Administration Law) was adopted at the Eighth Session of the Standing Committee of the Eighth National People’s Congress, and will come into force on January 1, 1995. For the public, especially overseas investors, to understand the law, the reporter had

Holistic Approaches for Renovation of Large Housing Areas in Japan

Social imbalance and obsolescence of the built environment has emerged in large sized housing estates in metropolises. In particular, the requirement of such planned housing areas has not matched public service provided by the infrastructure. On not only physical but also social aspect of local communities of this kind of housing area have a lot of problems while it also has a lot of good characteristics. A representative one is that age of the tenants is rising very swiftly and it makes the local community imbalanced. Nowadays many countries including Japan have tackled problems concerning housing estates constructed during the mass housing era and try to search for ways to reactivate so-called new town areas by utilisation of existing environmental resources such as building stock and ample green open space. In Japan many elemental technologies have been developed in order to utilise existing building stock. However, how to combine these technologies and new holistic methods for reactivation are still underdeveloped. Therefore, it is very important to fred these ways and to make a comprehensive plan for rehabilitation of these areas. The first purpose of our study is to develop and clarify how to organise and integrate many kinds of elemental techniques and the holistic measures for the improvement of both social and physical environment in suburban mass housing estates. Subsequently we try to reorganise proper relations between human settlements and the various service provision for those regions. Our last focus is put on searching for new ways to raise the value of existing housing environment. Our conclusion intends to indicate important of the master plan and its execution, where mass housing estates progress for the physical and social improvement.

The Impact of Property Tax on the Development of Real Estate Industry

In recent years,due to the rapid development of the real estate industry in China,land speculation has begun in addition to the significant growth in economy.However,this rapid development has led to an extreme rise in housing prices,largely owing to high property tax.This article analyzed the impact of property tax on the development of real estate industry and provided countermeasures.

我国住房制度演进历程:成效、问题及改革

本文回顾了我国住房制度从福利分房到市场化改革的基本历程。在此基础上,对改革的成效、深化改革的建议作了阐述。回顾历史表明,在坚持市场化和“房住不炒”的总体原则下,无论是“九八”房改提出的基于不同收入人群的分类供给思路,还是党的十九大提出的多主体供应、多渠道保障、租购并举的住房制度,改革的目标都是住房供应体系的多层次、广覆盖、可持续,实现方式都是围绕这一住房制度,在土地、财税、金融等方面的综合配套,系统推进。

中国式现代化的合理住房制度构建

我国现行住房制度与全体人民住有所居的目标差距显著,症结在于普通商品房结构性过剩,重售轻租、重商品轻保障和供需错配的结构性矛盾突出。系统构建面向中国式现代化的合理住房制度,需要协同发挥政府和市场两种力量,以普通商品房合理调控推动实现人口规模巨大的现代化,以保障性住房合理建设推动实现全体人民共同富裕的现代化,以改善性住房合理供给推动实现人与自然和谐共生的现代化。房地产税改革将从效率、公平和治理三个维度完善合理住房制度构建。在调整中央与地方财权与事权关系的前提下,流通和保有环节的差异化课税对促进合理住房制度内部循环意义重大,并在远期推动实现物质文明与精神文明相协调的中国式现代化。

房企破产中购房合同的处理方式

购房合同的处理无疑是房企破产的焦点之一。从系统性风险和法治化双重视角看,管理人原则上应当选择继续履行现房合同并认可已支付房款的优先权地位和对房企违约金的劣后债权地位;从房屋续建可能产生的价值提升以及消费者住房生存权益的保障角度看,管理人原则上也应当选择继续履行期房合同。与普通待履行合同的处置模式不同,购房合同的处置应转变为购房者的多层次自决:基于债务人追加担保及共益债保障的障碍,购房优先权人有权逐一决定是否接受现金清偿或是等待交房,且全体购房债权人基于对重整风险的分摊和自身权益的让步,均有权对重整计划、续建方案等事项进行表决,并根据其付出的时间与金钱成本分享房企继续履行购房合同的成果。在其他融资途径均行不通的情况下,可以由选择交房的购房者出资续建,且其出资额形成共益债务。同时还应充分利用数理思维来维护购房者之间的同质性及相应的权利救济。

坚持以人民为中心的发展思想破解房地产困局——基于降低个人住房贷款利率的角度

中国房地产市场的发展既是经济问题,也是关乎人民利益的社会问题。面对房地产困局,“以人民为中心”应当作为房地产市场政策调整的出发点和落脚点。房地产市场发展的最终目的是为了改善人民的物质文化生活,实现人民共同富裕。从宏观金融角度而言,降低个人住房贷款利率有利于稳定房价,稳定金融市场,助力房地产市场软着陆。从微观角度而言,降低个人住房贷款利率能够降低购房成本,减小生活成本支出,有利于提高人民生活质量,更好地体现“以人民为中心”的发展理念。同时,降低个人住房贷款利率具备相应的理论基础和现实依据,个人住房贷款利率存在继续降低的空间。