TY - CONF T1 - Compulsory purchase of properties: a comparative study of Polish and UK solutions T2 - 19th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference Y1 - 2012 A1 - Marek Walacik, Richard Grover A1 - Sabina Róbek AB - Compulsory purchase (or eminent domain) is one of the last resort methods of land acquisition used in many countries. Since it infringes the property ownership right it is regulated both by international legal acts and legal acts in particular countries. As many scientific papers show different countries developed different rules of compulsory purchase. Some countries had to change their legal acts due to very important investment projects undertaken during last years. These study compares different aspects of compulsory purchase systems of two countries that in the last few years carried out one of the biggest infrastructural investment in Europe: - Poland (the coorganizer of UEFA EURO 2012) and United Kingdom (the organizer of 2012 Olympic Games). It Describes legal acts regulating them, characterizes differences in land acquisition procedures and rules concerning compulsory purchase compensation determination. JA - 19th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference T3 - ERES: Conference CY - Edinburgh, Scotland U3 - RePEc:arz:wpaper:eres2012_034 J1 - Conference 2012 ID - oai:eres.id:eres2012_034 M3 - 10.15396/eres2012_034 ER -