Summary

This research was motivated by an interest in exploring the extent to which the Randstad region and the Netherlands as a nation have successfully attracted real estate investment firms to locate/base themselves there. The outsize professionally managed real estate market in the country relative to the GDP warrants attention. Most studies examine real estate attractiveness at a macro level but not the locational decisions of real estate investment firms. This study investigated external factors that influenced the locational decision of real estate investment firms in the Randstad region by operationalizing the models from previous literature.