A finance view on the real estate market -- Basic derivative instruments -- Rationales for property derivatives -- Hurdles for property derivatives -- Experience in property derivatives -- Underlying indices -- Index dynamics -- Feedback effects -- The property premium puzzle -- Pricing property...

The recent real estate bubble was fuelled by non-risk adjusted lending policies, low interest rates and complex finance vehicles. Mortgage-backed securities (MBS) played a crucial role in the crisis. These vehicles were praised as liquid capital market instruments that allowed mortgage lenders...

Market frictions inhibit the perfect replication of property derivatives, and define the property spread as a price measure in the incomplete real estate market. We identify transaction costs, transaction time, and short sale constraints as the main frictions in this market. Based on these...