Cover -- Editorial advisory board -- Guest editorial -- Foreclosure loss severity and distressed home mortgage refinance -- Another piece of the puzzle:REIT IPO under pricing after the financial crisis -- Hospitality REITs and financial crisis: a comprehensive assessment of market quality -- A...

This ebook drills deeper to analyse some of the trends and impacts that ICT is having on commercial real estate. Articles highlight key issues for research in ICT impact, examine the impact of technology in commercial office property and discuss the impact of ICT upon the industrial property...

A comparative study of perceptions concerning the environmental quality of residential real estate in Switzerland based on empirical data collected in three different linguistic regions is presented. Responses by homeowners in the Geneva, Zurich and Lugano areas to questionnaires involving...

This paper re‐examines the role of real estate within mixed asset portfolios from the perspective of an Irish portfolio manager. The nature of the investment market in the Republic of Ireland leads to the study extending the existing literature by expanding the universe of assets beyond a...

This paper examines the cyclical regularities of macroeconomic, financial and property market aggregates in relation to the property stock price cycle in the UK. The Hodrick Prescott filter is employed to fit a long‐term trend to the raw data, and to derive the short‐term cycles of each...

This paper recasts the land development problems of Williams (1991) and Quigg (1993) by explicitly dealing with the effects of scale elasticity of unit rental and unit construction cost in a real estate project. Two different diseconomies of scale constraints are imposed on the rental and cost...

The interpretation and valuation of real options by means of options pricing theory can be regarded as a relatively new paradigm of investment theory. Option pricing theory based investment valuation represents a sound theoretical basis and offers principally a simple decision base. The approach...

Examines the investment performance of Singapore real estate and property stocks over the past 25 years. Evaluations using coefficient of variation (CV), Sharpe index (SI) and time‐varying Jensen abnormal return index (JI) suggest that real estate outperformed property stocks on a...

Discusses the role of property within corporate organisations and, in particular, discusses the impact of real estate on the balance sheet of UK‐based corporate businesses. Also explains how new and proposed provisions from the Accounting Standards Board (ASB) may affect the way in which...