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NEP: New Economics Papers Urban and Real Estate Economics Edited by: Steve Ross University of Connecticut Issue date: 2012-04-17 Papers: 23 Note: Access to full contents may be restricted.  NEP is sponsored by SUNY Oswego. To subscribe/unsubscribe follow this link http://lists.repec.org/mailman/options/nep-ure In this issue we have: Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away From Cities? Ejaz Ghani; Arti Grover Goswami; William R. Kerr A Regional Model of Endogenous Growth with Creative Destruction Steven Bond-Smith Local average neighborhood effects from moving to opportunity Dionissi Aliprantis; Francisca G.-C. Richter Compulsory Schooling Laws and In-School Crime: Are Delinquents Incapacitated? Gregory A. Gilpin; Luke A. Pennig What price a roof? Housing and the cost of living in 16th-century Toledo Drelichman, Mauricio; Gonzalez Agudo, David Well-Being in Germany: GDP and Unemployment Still Matter Johannes Vatter Landfill Diversion in a Decentralized Setting: a Dynamic Assessment of Landfill Taxes Massimiliano Mazzanti; Francesco Nicolli Taxing home ownership: distributional effects of including net imputed rent in taxable income Francesco Figari; Alari Paulus; Holly Sutherland; Panos Tsakloglou; Gerlinde Verbist; Francesca Zantomio Early Childhood "Pay-For-Success" Social Impact Finance: A PKSE Bond Example to Increase School Readiness and Reduce Special Education Costs Robert Dugger; Robert Litan Complex Methods in Economics: An Example of Behavioral Heterogeneity in House Prices Bolt, W.; Demertzis, D.; Diks, C.G.H.; Van der Leij, M.J. Robust Test for Spatial Error Model:Considering Changes of Spatial Layouts and Distribution Misspecification Guo, Penghui; Liu, Lihu Comparing Treatments across Labor Markets: An Assessment of Nonexperimental Multiple-Treatment Strategies Carlos A. Flores; Oscar A. Mitnik Understanding Places Using a Mixed Method Approach Deutsch, Kathleen E; Goulias, Konstadinos G. Hope VI Fairfield Court Neighborhood: 2011 Evaluat

The market remained strong in morning trade with the Sensex surging 281.73 points or 1.07 percent to 26528.52 and the Nifty climbing 84.10 points or 1.07 percent to 7926.80 supported by broadbased buying. Market expert Ambareesh Baliga sees 7,800-7,750 as good support level for the Nifty. In an interview with CNBC-TV18, he said Nifty is unlikely to go much beyond 8,000 levels. He remains positive on cyclicals and expects them to become more attractive post any market correction. According to Baliga, the next leg of market rally will be led by cyclicals. The broader markets outperformed benchmarks with the BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices rising 1.4 percent each. Advancing shares outnumbered declining ones by a ratio of 1544 to 380 on the Bombay Stock Exchange. The BSE Capital Goods, Realty, Metal, Banks, Healthcare, Power and Oil & Gas indices gained 1-1.7 percent. Hindalco and BHEL kept their top positions in the buying list, up 4.8 percent and 3.5 percent, respectively. Dr Reddy's Labs, Cipla, HDFC, Bank of Baroda, Ambuja Cements and PNB surged 2-2.6 percent. However, NTPC and Bajaj Auto were only losers in the Sensex 30 stocks.

Noida having a boom in resale properties. Especially, sectors 74 to 79, have been witnessing a significant rise in resale property market, mainly because of the metro extension and increase of high-end projects. According to records these areas have seen a rise of 15 percent in resale house values while the actual price is 10-15 percent lesser than units in some of the ongoing high-end projects.

Residential segment of Greater Noida West mostly comprises of multi-storey apartments and group housing projects with affordable prices that fits in all kinds of pockets. The approximate price range of apartments is around Rs 30 lakh to Rs 50 lakh. The projects in Greater Noida West witnessed over 30 percent appreciation in the last two quarters of 2012.At least around 15 to 25 percent hike is expected every year over the properties in Greater Noida West. It is a good destination for long-term investments.

Oct 15 - Indian markets are closed on Wednesday due to assembly elections in Maharashtra state. The benchmark BSE index fell 0.13 percent, or 34.74 points, to end at 26,349.33 on Tuesday. The broader NSE index lost 0.26 percent, or 20.25 points, to at 7,864.Stock exchanges will reopen tommorow on 16 Oct 2014.

Chinese purchases of US homes rose 19 percent during 2013 to total $22 billion in housing purchases! The surge in spending made China the leading foreign buyers of US homes with 24 percent of US housing purchases by foreign buyers in terms of monetary value. Chinese investors paid on average $523,148 per property in the US, far surpassing the average price of $199,575 paid by US buyers.

As the real estate market proliferates, many businesses are investing in reliable technology in order to help them monitor and respond effectively to competitors. Competitor price monitoring solutions also allow businesses in the real estate industry to better understand how the market is fairing in terms of pricing and launch strategies that will yield the most returns.

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Implementation of BPM - Three Key Aspects Business Process Management If we go a level deeper, there are three main benefits business process management delivers to an organization. First, BPM helps to focus on what really matters. Studies and research show, that a company only competes with 15 to 20 percent of their processes. 80+ percent are commodity processes that you need to have, that you need to perform, but they can be performed on an industry average level. You cannot gain a competitive advantage by being the best, e.g. in ordering your toilet paper. You need to focus your innovation and optimization activities on what really matters, the 15+% of high impact processes. BPM helps to set the right focus by providing the necessary transparency over the operations of an organization and related specific tools and approaches. The second big impact of BPM is to "Improve in the appropriate context". Process management is not about just applying one improvement method. Many organizations still think they can apply Six-Sigma everywhere and that's the solution. No, not at all. In our digital world, there are areas where you lead with technology, where you automate and other areas where you can try first your people-centric more traditional methods. And there are lots of areas where you combine both. There are processes where you need to innovate, where you apply techniques like design thinking. BPM helps you to select the right approaches, for a specific process in a specific company context. That's improvement the right way. That is the second very important ingredient that BPM brings to an organization. The third aspect is that BPM, BPM helps to sustain those improvements. Again many organizations struggle with the fact that they improve for example their customer relationship process and half a year later they have the same or similar problems again. A value-driven BPM-Discipline puts the right governance around those processes in place to keep them on track, f

Home prices in the Orlando, Florida area have risen 37% since the beginning of the year. A number of factors have contributed to the increase in home prices, and the trend is unlikely to stop any time soon. This is good news for sellers who may have been waiting for the market to recover before placing their property up for sale. Homes in Orlando Florida are a part of one of the strongest housing markets in the nation at the present time.

The Agricultural land prices in Ireland have risen by 10 percent in the first four months of this year, a recent survey has found. The survey was conducted by estate agents Ganly Walters and was based on the land sales in Connacht, Munster, Leinster and Ulster regions.

Mumbai is India's entertainment and commercial hub; it generates five percent of the country's GDP. It is a known fact that Mumbai is the financial capital of the nation and the real estate in Mumbai contributes a lot to the nation's financial capital.

After Mumbai, Property market in Ahmedabad too is facing downfall. This year the prices of homes here can be reduced by 20 percent. Previous year in Ahmedabad there was the drop of approx. 40% in the demand of residential and commercial property. As a result of this builders had no other option but reducing the property prices.

SJ Developers offers you nothing short of the best in terms of civic amenities & comforts. We believe in building around nature, rather than building on it. Which explains the fact that 10 percent of the total land is reserved for parks, roads and civic amenities, and only the rest converted to plots. The entire layout has been designed with only one thing in mind - convenience and luxury.

The inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) in India decreased to around 2-year low at 1.05 billion US dollar in November 2012 because of uncertainties of the global economies. Back in November 2011, the FDI was worth 2.53 billion US dollar. The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) announced that from April-November period 2012-13, inflows of FDI decreased by around 31 percent to 15.84 billion US dollar from 22.83 billion US dollar in 2011-12. The reason why inflow of FDI decreased was because of the issues arising in the global economic scenario. Economic slowdown as well as absence of political consensus on FDI-associated issues are the main causes of decline in FDI inflow.

Home prices in the Orlando, Florida area have risen 37% since the beginning of the year. A number of factors have contributed to the increase in home prices, and the trend is unlikely to stop any time soon. This is good news for sellers who may have been waiting for the market to recover before placing their property up for sale. Homes in Orlando Florida are a part of one of the strongest housing markets in the nation at the present time.

The circles rates has been revised and Noida and Greater Noida are the places who have witnessed the revision . Around 7 to 25 percent hike in circle rates has been proposed in Noida, Greater Noida and Ghaziabad, which would mostly affect the buyers and real estate developers.

Nearly 130 real estate projects are present in Indirapuram, among which 90 projects are completed while the rest are under construction. The occupancy rate of over 35,000 flats in Indirapuram is nearly 75 percent. The rates of projects in Indirapuram approximately range between Rs 3,200 and Rs 5,500 per sq ft. Houses here are available at very competitive prices.Indirapuram has more than 135 projects and around 45 are under construction. The occupancy rate is expected to be around 60 % after the completion of the projects.

The properties in sector 4 Noida Extension have recorded 30-40 percent hike and a similar growth is expected to follow in the future. There are chances that the capital value of properties may more than double in a year's time. Around two years ago the average price of properties in Noida Extension was approximately around Rs 2,000 per sq ft while now it is around Rs 3,200 to Rs 3,600 per sq ft. Noida Sector is good for investment.