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Flexibility and Real Estate Valuation under Uncertainty
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Flexibility and Real Estate Valuation under Uncertainty

by David Geltner, Richard de Neufville
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
256 pages
7h 35m
English
Wiley-Blackwell
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12Basic Flexibility in Development Projects: The Most Basic Flexibility in Real Estate Development is the Option to Choose whether and when to Build

Flexibility is a way to manage and profit from uncertainty. It is the main theme and construct we introduce in this book. So far, we have discussed this in the context of existing built real estate properties. Beginning now and for the rest of the book, we view flexibility in the context of development projects. Indeed, these involve many different kinds of decisions concerning timing, scope, and composition. Development projects thus offer great opportunities for using flexibility to advantage, probably more so than investments in stabilized properties.

This chapter introduces flexibility in development by focusing on the simplest and most common type of flexibility, the decision of whether or not (in effect, the decision of when) to develop, ...

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