About the Journal
The German Journal of Real Estate Research (GJRER) of gif e. V. (Society of Property Researchers, Germany) holds a unique position in the academic journal landscape. As the only peer-reviewed open-access journal issued in the German-speaking world dedicated to real estate research, it offers scholars a renowned platform to publish their work in English or German with a consistent emphasis on practical relevance.
GJRER takes an interdisciplinary approach and actively promotes the integration of academic research and industry practice in the real estate sector. It provides a prominent international stage in real estate economics and encourages scholarly exchange across national borders.
Aims and scope
- Thematically the Journal addresses the following subject areas in particular, although it is not limited to them:
- Problems in the areas property construction and real estate sector services that are involved with e.g. planning and development, the construction, operation, marketing and use of real estate
- Problems in the area of occupation of real estate that occur, for instance, with life cycle costing, urban and regional planning, construction and estate management or the management of real estate resources in corporate procedures
- Problems arising in the field of real estate investment, concerning e.g. the explanation of trends in the real estate markets; property valuation and appraisal; real estate finance and real estate investment vehicles.
- Problems in the areas of the governance structures of the real estate industry and the management of property companies.
- Problems involving research and education in the real estate sector.
- Problems concerned with political instruments to control real estate industry procedures, e.g. analysis of the incidence of taxes, duties or changes to landlord and tenant law.
- Problems arising from the field of real estate economics. These may be either micro- or macroeconomic questions.
- The scope of the Journal includes all types of real estate, in particular commercial and residential property, and also provides a forum for interdisciplinary topics involving the entire real estate life cycle.
