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...

Factor analytic techniques were applied to 18 real estate equity markets using weekly FTSE EPRA/NAREIT data during the period 1997 to 2009. Our results from the exploratory factor analysis suggest three distinct factors during 1997 to 2007. With a single exception, the national returns fall...

This study provides initial empirical evidence on the usefulness of consumer sentiment and investor optimism indices in explaining real estate investment trust (REIT) price movements. We find evidence of uni-directional causality from REIT returns to the change in Michigan Consumer Sentiment...

Events such as the European sovereign debt crisis, terrorism and Brexit cause more uncertainty and volatility in capital markets. This encourages us to use both conditional and unconditional forecasts (back-tests) for expected shortfall (ES) in 8 indices of listed European real estate securities...

This paper investigates the random walk behavior of real estate investment trust (REIT) sub-sectors using monthly return data from January 1994 to July 2015. Using variance ratio tests, we examine sub-sectors of lodging/ resorts and self-storage and find that they do not follow a random walk,...

The main objective of this study is to examine the performance of hotel stocks and lodging real estate investment trusts (REITs) by estimating the recent Fama-French five-factor model (including investment and profitability factors) with an additional momentum factor during the 2000–2015...

The purpose of this paper is to test for the presence of bubbles in the US lodging/hotel real estate investment trust (REIT) sub-sector from 1994 to 2016. It also compares the profitability of a buy-and-hold strategy with several technical trading rules when applied to lodging REITs. To...

We investigate the degree of return predictability of lodging/resort real estate investment trusts (REITs) from January 1994 to May 2016. We test the Martingale hypothesis by using linear (automatic portmanteau and automatic variance ratio with rolling windows) and nonlinear tests (generalized...