Negative gearing has become a popular tax shelter in Australia. Australia is one of few countries to generally allow interest deductions for negatively geared rental property investments. Although the tax benefits of negative gearing at the investor level are quite well known, the tax policy...

The financial crisis showed, once again, that neglecting real estate booms can have disastrous consequences. In this paper, we spell out the circumstances under which a more active policy agenda on this front would be justified. Then, we offer tentative insights on the pros and cons as well as...

In Senegal, the real estate sector drains the majority of investments made by Senegalese expatriates. Migrant remittances could thus play a positive role in improving the housing conditions of households in Dakar. This paper aims to test this hypothesis via a series of analyses conducted on data...

This paper investigates the impact that ownership of eco-certified properties has on the corporate performance of U.S. REITs. Given the financial benefits associated with individual eco-certified properties, ownership of such properties within an overall real estate portfolio should translate...

Most standard statistical methods treat numerical data as if they were real (infinitenumber- of-decimal-places) observations. The issue of quantization or digital resolution is recognized by engineers and metrologists, but is largely ignored by statisticians and can render standard statistical...