In this paper, we compare the out-of-sample forecasting ability of three ARIMA family models: ARIMA, ARIMAX, and ARIMAX-GARCH. The models are tested to forecast turning points and trends in the Canadian real estate index using monthly data from April 2002 to March 2011. The results indicate that...

The term “marriage crisis” is becoming more visible in Iranian public and private debates and constitutes a major issue in political discussions at the time of elections. The increasing proportion of the young working age population in Iran has difficulty establishing families. This has...

The article deals with the general issues of investment attractiveness of the real estate market of Russia and St. Petersburg in the context of globalization, identifies the problems and prospects of the Russian real estate market as a sphere of investment, identifies the features of the real...

Article is devoted to the identification and study of the influence factors of the business environment on the development of the Russian real estate market. Relevance of the topic is explained as follows. Property market research based mainly on the analysis of secondary data, the possibility...

The paper analyzes the key determinants of real estate prices in Perm, with special attention to transport accessibility indicators. The issue of transport accessibility modeling is discussed. The valuation of price hedonic model revealed that housing prices in Perm are affected mostly by the...

</titre> Since the 1990s, the fast growing metropolises of the South have been characterized by a massive spatial expansion without precedent. The land appropriation supporting the extensive construction of exclusive real estate projects, notably gated communities and private cities, is examined here....

We evaluate the economics of financial intermediation in alternative assets by investigating the allocation and performance of pension fund investments in real estate, the most significant alternative asset class for institutional investors. We document substantial heterogeneity in real estate...

The purpose of this study is to explore an important issue concerning the relationship among the local government deficit, land finance and real estate markets in China. This study uses a panel data of 30 provinces in China during 1999–2010 to estimate the panel smooth transition regression...