Real estate—housing in particular—is a less profitable investment in the long run than previously thought. We hand-collect property-level financial data for the institutional real estate portfolios of four large Oxbridge colleges over the period 1901–1983. Gross income yields initially...

Immobilienaktien können Anleger nicht vor der allgemeinen Geldentwertung schützen. Ebenso wie andere Aktien bieten sie keinen effektiven Schutz vor Inflation. Stattdessen zeigen Regressionsanalysen negative Korrelationen an. Ein steigendes Preisniveau wirkt sich somit negativ auf die Renditen...

We employ the EU KLEMS database to estimate the real rate of return to capital in 14 countries (11 in the EU, three outside the EU) in 10 branches of the market economy plus the market economy as a whole. Our measure of capital is an aggregate over seven types of asset: three ICT assets...

We use sector level REIT and transaction-based direct real estate data for the U.S. to provide a clearer understanding of the dynamic relations between public and private real estate returns. We exclude leverage from REIT returns to make the REIT data more comparable with the direct market data....