Real estate investment is different from financial investment and such difference can affect the results of traditional mean -variance models. The literature on property finance summarises the differences of expected return and expected risk among individual real estate investments into four...

The hedonic price models on the office sector demonstrate the existence of a link between the rent and the vacancy of the area (Wheaton and Torto, 1988), the characteristics of the building (Clapp 1980) and the characteristics of the area (Gardiner and Henneberry, 1988). The role of each feature...

The rating offered by independent credit assessment institution represents an easy way to summarize the risk return profile of an investment and, especially in the United States, this tool is used also to evaluate the risk return profile of Real Estate investment products. The more relevant...

Liquidity is the ability of a bank to collect money necessary for financing assets and meet obligations as they come due, without incurring unsustainable losses; the maturity transformation of short-term deposits into long-term loans makes banks inherently vulnerable to liquidity risk (Basel...

The increasing role of retail investors in the real estate vehicle market makes necessary to study simple return/risk measures that could be easily understood also by not financial skilled investors. Measures frequently used in the asset management industry are the Risk Adjusted Performance...

Real estate industry is a fast growing reality in all European Countries and during the last years also Italian market shows a significant increase in the number of real estate funds available not only for institutional investors. The increasing role of retail investors in the industry makes...

The performance of real estate funds is mainly influenced by the inflows and outflows during the life of the fund and by the value changes of the real estate properties (Cervone, 2006). Following international standards (CFA Institute, 2009; IPD, 2008), the overall performance of the real estate...

Studies about hotel real estate market consider, prevalently, investment characteristics, managerial problems and macro-economics trends. Articles about real estate investment vehicles are scarce and generally concerning Anglo-Saxon countries. Authors stress the differences in the performance...