Dr Ibrahim Dabara Daniel

Purpose: Housing provides constructed space for human activities. Literature indicates that housing impacts wealth, education attainment and health outcomes, among others. Due to its contributions to society, it is essential to develop and implement strategies that address the housing shortage experienced in most cities across the globe. The study aims to unpack the factors affecting housing production in the UK and chart the way forward. Methodology: In addressing the study's aim, an interprivitst approach was adopted, and semistructured interviews were conducted with eighteen experienced professionals. Data were collected across the four nations of the United Kingdom (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland). Findings: The results indicated that the opportunistic behaviour of stakeholders is one of the main factors affecting housing production in the study area. Also, modern construction methods, collaborative practices, government intervention and affordable housing schemes were identified as key strategies for addressing housing production factors. Implication: The study identified strategies for mitigating housing production issues that provide a focal point to all stakeholders keen on filling the housing shortage gap and improving productivity to channel their resources and effort accordingly. Originality/value: This study is one of the first to empirically analyse the influencing factors on the housing gap in the UK from the perspective of the supply-side, to provide information that could lead towards closing the said gap. 

The study examines the relationship between housing construction material prices and house rents in Ede town, Nigeria, from 2002 to 2020 to provide information for investment decisions. The research was conducted using a questionnaire survey. The study’ population consists of landlords, estate surveyors and valuers, real estate agents, and building material suppliers/sellers in the study area. Data obtained was analysed employing descriptive and inferential statistical tools. The results showed that house rents and building material prices maintained an upward trend within the study period. Changes in house rents correlated with some percentage changes in the prices of selected building materials (cement, roofing sheet, reinforcement bar, sand and tiles). However, all the correlations are not statistically significant at 0.05 level. The regression model’s coefficient of determination R-squared revealed that building material costs explained about 43.6% of the variation in house rents. This result implies that factors other than building material costs may influence changes in house rents. The study’s finding will be valuable to stakeholders making real estate investment decisions in the study area and similar developing economies in general.

Purpose
This study examines the nexus between land tenure security (LTS) and food security (FS) in female-led households of Tula Baule agrarian settlements.

Design/Methodology/Approach
The study used a qualitative research design based on the constructivist paradigm. The researchers conducted in-depth interviews with female household heads cutting across the three “yaati” (villages) of Tula Baule. Analysis of data collected from the interviews was done employing transcriptions, creating semantic networks and utilising thematic content analysis.

Findings
The study revealed that all but a few respondents believed that they had LTS based on “Feloh's” (ancestral gods') supremacy without recourse to documentary evidence of ownership. Similarly, all but a few participants do not have access to three square meals per day throughout the study period. The study also found a strong relationship between LTS and FS in the study area. Participants indicated a lack of motivation to invest in farms that lack LTS, consequently affecting their agricultural productivity and FS.

Practical implication
It provides an empirical base to equip policymakers with valuable information for policies relating to females' access to land and food in agrarian settlements.

Originality/value
This study is the first to empirically analyse land and food security in female-led agrarian households of Tula Baule in an eclectic context.

In the real estate and construction industry, the built environment contributes to environmental crises and climate threats. However, what are the environmental negative effects/impacts at the post-development stage (operational stages)? Are they different from those at virgin constructions? After the construction phase, what factors inhibit the adoption of sustainable real estate management practice, herein referred to as the green lease movement? To what extent has sustainable real estate management practice been adopted in Nigerian commercial cities? Specifically, this study examines negative environmental crises at the operational stages and confirms if different from the conventional counterpart. It also examines the factors inhibiting the full adoption of sustainable real estate management practices. Similar to conventional construction, carbon dioxide emissions and toxic waste generation emerged as the major negative effects/impacts during the operational stage. Lack of prerequisite skills, enforcement of green leases, inadequate training, and empowerment of licenced property managers and occupiers on how such leases operate significantly inhibit the full adoption of green leases in the region. Energy conservation bulbs and digital metering are the most adopted features. The current property management practice does not address these negative effects/impacts.

Purpose – This study examined the performance of commercial and residential real estate investments in the Ibadan property market to provide information for investment decisions.

Design/methodology/approach – The study used a mixed research design (qualitative and quantitative).
Data were obtained employing in-depth interviews with randomly selected sixteen estate surveyors and
valuers practising in the Ibadan property market. Data for the study were analysed using the
phenomenological thematic content analysis. Similarly, data on rental and capital values were translated to
income, capital and holding period returns. The Kwiatkowski–Phillips–Schmidt–Shin (KPSS) and Philip–
Perron (PP) models were used for unit root analysis. Ordinary least square (OLS) regression model was used to test for inflation-hedging characteristics, and the Granger causality tests were carried out to analyse the causal relationship between the variables.

Findings – The study revealed that the Ibadan property market is still immature. For the return components,
the study found that the Ibadan property market provided mean holding period returns of 10.82%, 14.31 and
8.29% for office, shop and residential property types, respectively. The study also revealed that the selected
property types are perverse hedges against inflation. Similarly, the study showed a unidirectional causal
relationship between inflation and returns on the selected property types.

Practical implications – Results of this study revealed the peculiar nature of the Ibadan property market;
findings from the survey can be used as a guide for investment decisions by foreign and domestic investors.
Shrewd investors can take advantage of the high returns provided by the real estate assets in the Ibadan
property market (by investing in the property market) to obtain high returns and expand their investment
portfolio.

Originality/value – This study is the first to examine, in an eclectic and comparative context, the
performance of commercial and residential properties in the Ibadan property market from the perspective of its market maturity level, returns profile, as well as its inflation-hedging characteristics. Findings from the study will equip both individual and institutional investors with valuable information for investment decisions.