Is the valuer the barrier to identifying the value of sustainability?

Journal of Property Investment and Finance

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 345-359

  Warren Myers, Georgia ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Property; Sustainability; Valuation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879377288     PISSN: 1463578X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JPIF-01-2013-0004     Document Type: Article

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