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As we have already seen, the traditional policy of property developers was to retain the full equity in both their development and investment activities, mainly by means of fixed-interest debt finance raised principally by mortgage or by the issue of loan stock. This process maximised equity growth and returns for shareholders and, in the early post-war conditions of rental growth and accelerating inflation, proved highly lucrative. Paradoxically however, it was inflation and the success of developers which led to the gradual decline of a financing system based almost exclusively on debt.
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© 1993 W. D. Fraser
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Fraser, W.D. (1993). Equity Sharing and Partnership Schemes. In: Principles of Property Investment and Pricing. Building and Surveying Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13311-6_19
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