This paper aims to achieve two objectives. First, we demonstrate that with respect to business cycle frequency (Burns and Mitchell, 1946), there was a general decrease in the association between macroeconomic variables (MV) and housing market variables (HMV) following the global financial crisis...

Asset prices in general, and real house prices in particular, are often characterized by a nonlinear data-generating process which displays mildly explosive behavior in some periods. Here, we investigate the emergence of explosiveness in the dynamics of real house prices and the role played by...

In this paper we examine house price synchronization in 15 global cities using real house price data from 1995:Q1-2020:Q2. We find that although there is evidence for bilateral positive phase synchronization, there is no evidence for an integrated global housing market for our sample of cities....

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 paper analyses long- and short-term co-movements between 14 international real estate stock markets based on bivariate testing for cointegration and correlation analysis. The results indicate that there exist strong long-term relationships within economic and geographical regions, but less...

This study examines the tail dependence of returns in international public real estate markets. By using daily returns of real estate securities in seven countries from 2000 to 2014, we analyze how the interdependence of international securitized real estate markets has changed since the Global...

Cross-border real estate investing offers opportunities for enhanced diversification. Investors often begin real estate investing domestically because local opportunities are more familiar and easier to undertake than cross-border (international) investments. As investors gain experience...

Optimization of international securitized real estate portfolios has been a key topic for several decades. However, most previous analysis has focused on regional diversification by applying the traditional mean-variance (MV) framework suggested by Markowitz (1952) even if the limitations of...

This paper analyses long- and short-term co-movements between 14 international real estate stock markets based on bivariate testing for cointegration and correlation analysis. The results indicate that there exist strong long-term relationships within economic and geographical regions, but less...