Climbing the Slippery Slope: Investigating Real Estate Developer Strategy

Real estate developers are key to the future of cities. Yet what they view as strategic and how they craft strategy is not well understood. This research concludes that geographical focus, sectoral priorities, timeframes, land banking and sell vs hold are strategic. Land prices vs construction costs...

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Main Author: Roche, Julian
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2025
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/97102
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description Real estate developers are key to the future of cities. Yet what they view as strategic and how they craft strategy is not well understood. This research concludes that geographical focus, sectoral priorities, timeframes, land banking and sell vs hold are strategic. Land prices vs construction costs, WFH/online retail, technology and branding, but also comparative planning systems macro-economic and ESG factors and the demands of funders are all important drivers of developer strategy.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-971022025-02-12T00:48:41Z Climbing the Slippery Slope: Investigating Real Estate Developer Strategy Roche, Julian Real estate developers are key to the future of cities. Yet what they view as strategic and how they craft strategy is not well understood. This research concludes that geographical focus, sectoral priorities, timeframes, land banking and sell vs hold are strategic. Land prices vs construction costs, WFH/online retail, technology and branding, but also comparative planning systems macro-economic and ESG factors and the demands of funders are all important drivers of developer strategy. 2025 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/97102 Curtin University fulltext
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Climbing the Slippery Slope: Investigating Real Estate Developer Strategy
title Climbing the Slippery Slope: Investigating Real Estate Developer Strategy
title_full Climbing the Slippery Slope: Investigating Real Estate Developer Strategy
title_fullStr Climbing the Slippery Slope: Investigating Real Estate Developer Strategy
title_full_unstemmed Climbing the Slippery Slope: Investigating Real Estate Developer Strategy
title_short Climbing the Slippery Slope: Investigating Real Estate Developer Strategy
title_sort climbing the slippery slope: investigating real estate developer strategy
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/97102