Types of built development
Development, in terms of land, property or real estate, is a complex process of coordinating various activities to transform ideas and plans into physical reality. As a business process, it involves the financing, construction, renovation or refurbishment of buildings and land, generally in order to make a profit.
Developments may be categorised by the nature of the developer, the type of property developed, the method of financing, the end use of the development and so on.
Articles about types of development on Designing Buildings Wiki include:
- Build to rent
- Built to suit.
- Buyer-funded development.
- Crown build.
- Custom build.
- Endogenous development.
- Housing associations.
- Investment property.
- Kit house.
- Major development.
- Meanwhile use.
- Private developer scheme.
- Private finance initiative.
- Public private partnership.
- Public procurement.
- Real Estate Investment Trusts.
- Self-build home.
- Speculative development.
- Waste development.
See also:
[edit] Related articles on Designing Buildings Wiki
- Developer.
- Development appraisal.
- Development footprint.
- Development manager.
- Development.
- Equity and loan capital for property development.
- Investment.
- Off-plan property.
- Project-based funding.
- Property development and music.
- Property development finance.
- Property.
- Stakeholders in development projects.
- Sustainable development.
- Types of building.
- Types of construction.
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