We evaluate a number of real estate sentiment indices to ascertain current and forward-looking information content that may be useful for forecasting demand and supply activities. Analyzing the dynamic relationships within a Vector Auto-Regression (VAR) framework and using the quarterly US data...

Institutional investors such as pension funds or insurance companies commonly invest in the unsecuritized and securitized real estate market. We investigate how institutional investor sentiment in the commercial real estate market affects institutional trading behavior in the REIT market and...

Previous studies of rental and price premiums in the market for eco-certified real estate have largely ignored buyer characteristics. This paper investigates whether there are significant concentrations of eco-investors in commercial real estate markets and uses hedonic regression analysis to...