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...

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...