Plazzi, Alberto; Torous, Walt; Valkanov, Rossen - Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of … - 2004
We investigate whether the cap rate, that is, the rent-price ratio in commercial real estate incorporates information … across fifty-three metropolitan areas in the U.S., we find that the cap rate captures fluctuations in expected returns for … apartments, retail, as well as industrial properties. For offices, by contrast, the cap rate does not forecast returns even …