Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to use a text-based sentiment indicator to explain variations in direct property market liquidity in the USA. Design/methodology/approach: By means of an artificial neural network, market sentiment is extracted from 66,070 US real estate market news...

This paper analyses the highly under-researched German residential real estate market. Quality- and spatial-adjusted price and liquidity indices are calculated separately for the investment and rental market on a regional basis. Applying the “Partitioning Around Medoids (PAM)” clustering...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to determine systematically the broader relationship between news media sentiment, extracted through textual analysis of articles published by leading US newspapers, and the securitized real estate market. Design/methodology/approach: The methodology is...