scholarly journals REAL ESTATE STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT MODEL FOR LITHUANIAN MUNICIPALITIES

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Egle Klumbyte ◽  
Rasa Apanaviciene
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Management Research ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Estate Property ◽  
Estate Management ◽  
Municipal Boundaries ◽  
Real Estate Management

Within the municipal boundaries, municipalities themselves are usually the largest real estate owners and managers. Such significant amount of real estate property could be expected to be professionally managed; however, the situation is different. According to the latest publications, only about 25% of major European cities are able to follow the quantity and value of their real estate portfolios. The Lithuanian Free Market Institute has recently introduced its first Index of Municipalities in Lithuania and states that none of the Lithuanian municipalities has developed its real estate management strategy. This paper reviews the scientific research on municipal real estate management and analyses the system of real estate management in Lithuanian municipalities. The authors of the paper collaborated with the Association of Local Authorities in Lithuania as well as the representatives of municipalities, and together they identified the main problems of real estate management. On the basis of real estate management research and practice within Lithuanian municipalities the authors of the paper present a brand new model which would help to manage municipal real estate effectively by taking into account the priorities of strategic economic and social development tendencies of the region.

scholarly journals Immigration in Genoa: real estate demand survey in the historic centre [Immigrazione a Genova: un’indagine conoscitiva sulla domanda immobiliare nel centro storico]

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 67-80
Author(s):  
Paolo Rosasco ◽  
Leopoldo Sdino ◽  
Benedetta Sdino
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Central America ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Housing Demand ◽  
European Cities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Historic Centre ◽  
New Residents ◽  
Post War ◽  
The City

Migratory flows which characterized European cities over the last decade have generated profound changes in the social and economic tissue causing a housing demand with its own characteristics. In Italy, such phenomenon is particularly evident, not only in terms of property demand by foreigner residents, but also as to the turnover produced in terms of volume. Immigration in Genoa manifested itself starting from the second post-war period through a considerable flow of people coming from South of Italy regions looking for an occupation in many state industries and companies in the city or the port. The phenomenon ceased in the ‘70s with the beginning of the deindustrialization and it has been substituted by foreign immigration coming from North Africa and Central America poorest countries. New residents settle in the urban units of Molo, Maddalena and Prè (Historic Centre) abandoned by traditional inhabitants and where the lower prices level makes the buildings more accessible to this specific demand, often characterized by reduced economic capacities. I flussi migratori che caratterizzano le città europee in questi ultimi decenni hanno generato profondi cambiamenti nel tessuto sociale ed economico causando una domanda abitativa con propri caratteri. In Italia, il fenomeno è particolarmente evidente, sia in termini di domanda di immobili da parte di residenti stranieri sia in termini di volumi di affari prodotti. Per la città di Genova il fenomeno dell’immigrazione si manifesta a partire dal secondo dopoguerra con un consistente flusso di soggetti provenienti dalle regioni del sud Italia in cerca di occupazione nelle molte industrie e aziende statali presenti in città e nel porto. Il fenomeno cessa negli anni ‘70 con l’inizio della deindustrializzazione e viene sostituito dall’immigrazione estera dagli stati più poveri del nord Africa e del Centro America. I nuovi residenti si insediano nei sestrieri del Molo, della Maddalena e di Prè (Centro Storico della città) ormai abbandonati dagli abitanti tradizionali e dove il basso livello dei prezzi rende più accessibili gli immobili da parte di questa specifica domanda spesso caratterizzata da ridotte capacità economiche

scholarly journals Good and Bad Squatters? Challenging Hegemonic Narratives and Advancing Anti-Capitalist Views of Squatting in Western European Cities

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-189
Author(s):  
Miguel A. Martínez López
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Criminal Offence ◽  
European Cities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Western European ◽  
Dominant Narratives

Mainstream mass media and politicians tend to portray squatters as civic evils. Breaking in and trespassing on private property is clumsily equated with the occupation of empty premises. Squatting is often represented as a serious criminal offence even before any legal verdict has been determined. The social diversity of squatters and the circumstances around this practice are usually omitted. Dominant narratives in Western European cities were effective in terms of criminalisation of squatting and the social groups that occupied vacant properties –homeless people in need of a shelter, those who cannot afford to buy or rent convenient venues for performing social activities, activists who squat as a means of protest against real estate speculation, etc. This article reviews the available evidence of those narratives and disentangles the main categories at play. I first examine homogenisation stereotypes of squatters as a whole. Next, I distinguish the divides created by the conventional polarisation between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ squatters. It is argued that both dynamics foster the stigma of squatting and facilitate its repression, although these discursive struggles engage squatters as well. As a consequence, I discuss the implications of ‘reversive’ and ‘subversive’ narratives performed by squatters to legitimise their practices and movements. In particular, the anti-capitalist features of these counter-hegemonic responses are identified and elaborated, which adds to the topic’s literature.

scholarly journals Articulating urban change in Southern Europe: Gentrification, touristification and financialisation in Mouraria, Lisbon

2020 ◽  
pp. 096977642096338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Tulumello ◽  
Giovanni Allegretti
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Urban Change ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Levels Of Abstraction ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Deviant Case

The global or planetary reach of gentrification has become a mainstream in critical urban studies. Yet, the ‘travels’ of a concept originated in specific places and times have often brought about a loss of explanatory and strategic power. In this article, we argue that another concept, that of articulation developed by Laclau and Mouffe, is particularly adequate to help gentrification, touristification and financialisation to travel among places and levels of abstraction. In order to make this argument, we focus on Southern Europe, whose cities had long been considered scarcely gentrifiable and where, more recently, critical urban scholarship has made large use of gentrification, touristification and financialisation to explain the impacts of crisis, austerity and afterwards economic rebound driven by real estate and tourism. We explore from a multi-scalar perspective the trajectory of Mouraria, a historical neighbourhood in Lisbon – and particularly the dimensions of housing and local politics. We show how Mouraria, during the last decade, shifted from being a ‘deviant’ case – capable of taking advantage of neoliberal regeneration policies in order to keep its social diversity and most of its long-term residents – towards one ‘paradigmatic’ of urbanisation-as-accumulation and contentious urban politics. We explain this shift by focusing on its multi-scalar determinants, concluding that present urban change in many Southern European cities should be understood as the articulation of various processes, which include gentrification, touristification and financialisation.

Real Estate Fraud

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Bradley
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate
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