Estate Management & Property

Faculty Information Adviser:
Michael Veitch

email : LLResbe@lsbu.ac.uk

Information Skills Adviser for student enquiries:
Katherine Dike 020 7815 6605
email: LLResbe@lsbu.ac.uk

Core E-resources

EGI: Estates Gazette Interactive [electronic resource].
Property market news and information.

ISurv [electronic resource].
ISurv is the definitive knowledge base for property professionals and includes the RICS Red Book.

RICS Library Direct [electronic resource].
This is an online version of the RICS Library's key information source Abstracts and Reviews. It provides an index and abstracts to over 50,000 items held in the RICS Library.

Digimap [electronic resource].
Digimap allows users to view and print contemporary and current Ordnance Survey maps of any location in Great Britain at a series of predefined scales.

Background E-resources

Fame - Financial Analysis Made Easy [electronic resource].
Financial analysis of the UK's leading companies. Results of the top 1.7 million UK and Irish companies for the last ten years showing balance sheets, profit and loss accounts and other useful information. Updated weekly.

Index to Theses [electronic resource].
Covers from 1970 onwards. Information on theses accepted for higher degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland. Information given includes title, date, type of award, University and usually, an abstract.

RefWorks [electronic resource].
RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

SpringerLink [electronic resource].
Provides online, full-text access to Springer's journal titles as well as journals from other publishers. Subjects include: life sciences, chemical sciences, environmental sciences, geosciences, computer science, mathematics, medicine, physics & astronomy, engineering and economics.

Westlaw [electronic resource].
Access to the full text of cases and legislation for UK materials, some EU and International documentation plus considerable US resources. It incorporates the Legal Journals Index and the Case and Legislation Citators.

Journal Collections and Newspapers

Academic Onefile [electronic resource].
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

Business Source Premier [electronic resource].
Via EBSCOhost databases. Provides full-text for approximately 2,300 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and marketing. Includes Dun & Bradstreet company information.

Emerald [electronic resource].
Access to management research journals from MCB University Press. The service provides access to over 20,000 management articles, with a full text archive going back to 1994.

ProQuest Newspapers, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, Times [electronic resource].
Updated daily. Database of the Daily Mail & Mail on Sunday; Daily Telegraph & Sunday Telegraph; Evening Standard; Financial Times; Guardian & Observer; Times and Sunday Times; Independent. Coverage is from at least January 1998 onwards for all titles.

E-Books

MyiLibrary [electronic resource].
MyiLibrary provides a faster and easier way to access collections of books, reports, journals, bulletins and other documents published by inter-governmental organisations such as the World Bank, United Nations and International Labour Organisation.

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Selected Websites for this area.

Bank of England
Economics

Barratt Homes
Internet website for one of Britians largest house-building company. Home buyers information. You can buy a house via the Internet!

Bloomberg.co
Finance, investments, markets

Chestertons
Commercial and residential properties. Links with other property websites.

College of Estate Management
Highlights property and construction resources. Education and training.

Dr. Ed Yardeni's Economics Network
Economics

EGi: Estates Gazette Interactive
Property market news and information.

Estates Today
Latest UK property news. Website directory of property resources.

Halifax plc
Property and other financial and investment information

HM Land Registry
Includes average prices of residential properties

HM Treasury
Economics

Internet Property Finder (IPF)
This site includes links to a growing number of estate agents and property companies. Recognised site for the Association of Residential Letting Agents.

Jones Lang LaSalle [formerly JONES LANG WOOTTON]
Commercial property.

Moneyworld
Finance, investments, markets

Property Live
This is the National Association of Estate Agents Internet Service and includes information on planning and legal matters, school performance tables and other services connected with property sales and lettings.

Society of Property Researchers
Property research

The University of Reading Dept of Land Management and Development
Land mangement education and research in Europe

UK Property Register
Commercial property to lease or buy. City centre offices, business parks, out-of-town retail.

Urban Land Institute
Contents pages of Institutes publications and newsletter, Land Use Digest.

Winkworth
One of Londons largest property specialists offering easy access to searching for all types of properties with mortgage calculations as well.

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