This study explores the dynamic nature of linkages among seven key real estate sectors which include residential, health, lodging-resort, storage, office, retail and industrial. Long-run results reveal evidence of increased integration and contagion across the real estate sectors in the wake of...

Ownership of real estate through corporations in offshore tax havens creates opportunities for tax evasion and money laundering and may have undesirable effects in housing markets. In this paper, we study offshore ownership of real estate in the United Kingdom by combining several data sources:...

This study extends the early empirical evidence of sentiment risk spillovers on firms within the same category (Barberis, Shleifer and Wurgler, 2005) and across the overlapping category (Ambrose et al., 2007) to other firms in a non-overlapping but correlated category. Using the first six REITs'...

The Islamic response to the ever present need of home financing manifests itself predominantly in ‘Bai-Bithaman Ajil' (BBA) and ‘Musharakah Mutanaqisah' (MM) inter alia. They are both essentially structured concepts consisting of Murabahah in the case of BBA, and musharakah and Ijarah in the...