This paper examines the trade-offs in launching new real estate funds, specifically open-end, direct-property funds. This investment vehicle, which is designed to provide the risk-return benefits of private market real estate, is available to retail investors in a number of countries. At the...

This study examines various methods for correcting the smoothness of appraisal-based indices proposed by real estate research. Such methods are widely applied in asset allocation decisions when transaction-based indices are not available. Using more than forty years of index data, we investigate...

We examine the decision to start a new mutual fund with particular emphasis on how this decision differences for the case of real estate funds. Our sample includes 1016 fund openings within the German mutual fund industry for the period 1992 to 2010. Within a logistic regression framework, the...

During the October 2008 fund crisis, approximately one-third of German open-end real estate retail funds, with total assets under management of about EUR 30 billion, were forced to close (suspend share redemptions). A fund closure generally leads to fund liquidation, which poses a serious...

In this paper, we analyze whether an investment strategy which is based on the net asset value (NAV) spreads of real estate stocks yields positive excess returns. For a global sample of 542 real estate stocks over the 2000 to 2012 period, we find that a portfolio which is long in the quintile of...

German abstract: Das Erbbaurecht ist eine probate Alternative zum klassischen Volleigentum. Vorrangig von Kommunen und Stiftungen angewandt, ist diese Form der Grundstücksteilung in vielen entwickelten Ländern die typische Form des Immobilienerwerbs. Vor dem Hintergrund des niedrigen...