For most households, choosing whether to rent or buy a home is a difficult, multifaceted problem. It is well-established that relative cost and affordability aspects are important for the household's tenure decision, such as the tax treatment of owner-occupied homes, the cost of moving home, and...

This paper examines the performance of active US domestic real estate mutual funds (REMFs) relative to a passive benchmark, both before and after fund managers' compensation. We consider both the REMF sector as a whole, and also individual funds, separately against stock market and real estate...

Flexibility is an inherent part of project developments, and the value associated with flexibility is an integral part of the total value of undeveloped sites. The standard decision rule states that the development should be undertaken when the residual value is positive and left undone if it is...

This paper studies the time variation of the correlation between real estate stocks and the stock market and the implications for portfolio management. Monthly correlation series are estimated from daily returns for 14 American, Asian, and European countries/areas over 1990 to 2005 and strong...

Informational efficient prices are a necessary requirement for optimal resource allocation in the commercial real estate market. Prices are informational efficient if they reflect buildings' benefit to marginal buyers, thereby taking account of all available information on future market...

We study the impact of macroeconomic factors on apartment house prices. A simple version of the so-called new IS/LM model is used to analyze the interaction of macroeconomic variables and prices. It is assumed that prices follow the rational valuation formula (RVF), which states that prices...

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