São Paulo is the best-documented case of a large city that sells the right to build above a baseline. Under the 2002 Strategic Master Plan and Land Use Law 13,885 of 2004, a plot has a basic ...
Heidi Falkenbach, Oskari Harjunen, Erik Mäkelä and Elias Oikarinen, "Information Capitalization in the Housing Market: Evidence from Land Leases," Real Estate Economics (2026; open access under a ...
Seeraj Mohamed — Deputy Director for Economics at South Africa's Parliamentary Budget Office and adjunct professor at the University of the Western Cape — applies a heterodox development-economics ...
A proportional surcharge (PHVCTS). In place of banded charges, a surcharge of 0.5% a year on the value of a primary home above £1.5m, and 1% for second homes. A £2m primary home would pay £2,500; a ...
The Core Urban Region (CURE) Bill 2026, introduced in the Telangana Legislative Assembly in September 2026, proposes replacing the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act 1955 with a single legal ...
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