Property rights in land and buildings
Real property rights determine the legal and economic relationship that various stakeholders have to land and buildings. A range of social, political, and environmental influences add to their complexity.
Inevitably, there is a range of overlapping, complementary, and conflicting interests over any one parcel of land or any one building. At a simple economic level, when a valuation is prepared for land or buildings a valuer places a dollar value on the property rights of the various parties. However, are property rights that are appropriate in highly developed social systems necessarily appropriate to facilitate the development health of less developed societies?
At the APCCRPR, our involvement with property rights in land and buildings is diverse. It currently includes contract research / consultancy on advisory matters and expert witness roles, through to research on land remediation, a transdisciplinary project looking at the dynamics People, Place, Property, and Planning, through to doctoral research on the Fitness Landscape of Real Property Rights.
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