In this paper we investigate cross-asset liquidity between equity markets and REITs and between REITs and private real estate markets. While many studies have investigated REIT liquidity, and there is an emerging interest in liquidity in the private real estate markets, there appears to be...

In this paper we investigate the commonly used auto-regressive filter method of adjusting appraisal-based real estate returns to correct for the perceived biases induced in the appraisal process. Many papers have been written on appraisal smoothing but remarkably few have considered the...

Option pricing theory predicts that capital improvement expenditures are positively linked with high or increasing market lease rates. Ceteris paribus, when the market lease rate is high, or when there is an expectation of higher lease rates in the future, owners are encouraged to increase...

This paper investigates whether fund managers investing in the direct real estate market can systematically and persistently deliver superior risk-adjusted returns. The research that has been published has typically focused on the performance of managers trading public real estate securities....