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     property (studies)

This page supplements the note on benchmarks in the commercial and residential real estate sectors.

For Japanese FDI see Roger Farrell's 1998 Organisation, Motivations and Case Studies of Japanese Direct Investment in Real Estate 1985-94 (PDF), Mitchell Pacelle's Empire: A Tale of Obsession, Betrayal, and the Battle for an American Icon (New York: Wiley 2001) and Deyan Sudjic's The Edifice Complex: How the Rich and Powerful Shape the World (New York: Penguin Press 2005).

For US and European corporate megalomania see Donald Sull's Revival of the Fittest (Cambridge: Harvard Business School 2003).

Perspectives on residential real estate are provided in works such as Steven Gaines' Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion & Property in the Hamptons (Boston: Little Brown 1998) and The Sky's the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhattan (Boston: Little Brown 2005) and Piet Eichholtz's A Long Run House Price Index: The Herengracht Index, 1628-1973 paper. In questioning myths about property appreciation Robert Shiller comments that — adjusted for inflation — real property values on the Herengracht in Amsterdam between 1628 and 1973 increased by 0.2% per year: "real home prices did roughly double, but took nearly 350 years to do so". That is consistent with Shiller's research on US home prices from 1890, with an average annual increase of 0.4% compared to the stock market's average annual real rate of return of 6.8%.

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For the Reichmanns see The Reichmanns: Family, Faith, Fortune, and the Empire of Olympia & York (New York: Random 1997) by Anthony Bianco, Too Big to Fail: Olympia & York: The Story Behind the Headlines (New York: Beard Books 2000) by Walter Stewart, Behind Closed Doors: The Rise and Fall of Canada's Edper Bronfman and Reichmann Empires (Scarborough: Prentice Hall Canada 1995) by Susan Gittins and Towers of Debt: the Rise and Fall of the Reichmanns (Toronto: Key Porter 1993) by Peter Foster.

There is a gossipy account of 'The Donald' in Trump: The Saga of America's Most Powerful Real Estate Baron (New York: Beard 2004) by Jerome Tuccille, a work that accepts Trump's exaggerated self-importance.

For Lend Lease see Lindie Clark's Finding a Common Interest: The Story of Dick Dusseldorp and Lend Lease (New York: Cambridge Uni Press 2002).

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