The traditional mechanisms of private covenants and public restrictions may not meet the needs of residential property owners who want to preserve a certain neighborhood style. Privately initiated and publicly enforced conservation district regulations can preserve desirable neighborhood...

Experiments reported in this paper clarify and extend results of previous research into the impact of reference points on valuation judgment. The value judgments of expert commercial appraisers from the USA who were not familiar with the geographical setting of the subject property were...

Real estate literature concerned with energy efficient or green property features focuses primarily on the impact of green labeling, certifications and designations. There is a modest amount of research on the valuation impact of individual green features such as dual pane windows, an important...

This paper investigates the relationship between financial news content (optimistic/pessimistic), REIT returns, and trading volume. We apply textual analysis and find that high media pessimism predicts downward pressure on REIT returns. Negative words in the financial press are significantly...