The aim of this paper is to compare various real estate valuation models and the manner in which they take into account environmental variables.

De nombreuses etudes ont mis en evidence le role positif que peuvent jouer les investissements immobiliers dans la diversification d'un portefeuille compose de differentes classes d'actifs. Il a ete montre que pour un investisseur souhaitant s'exposer a peu de risque, la part optimale qui...

This paper examines the economics of residential real estate brokerage. Section 2 discusses the role of the residential real estate agent - what the listing agent does, what the selling agent does, and broadly how the residential real estate brokerage market is organized. Section 3 examines...

Une motivation importante lors de la creation d'indicateurs de prix de l'immobilier est la construction de sous-indices par region ou par quartier. Des differences dans l'evolution de ces sous-indices sont alors le reflet de modifications de l'environnement, notamment des infrastructures...

Dans un precedent article (Bender et Hoesli, 1996), les auteurs ont discute les raisons pour lesquelles il est necessaire d'evaluer periodiquement a la valeur de marche les portefeuilles immobiliers des investisseurs institutionnels. Il ressort des recherches recentes que la meilleure solution...

There has been a significant rise in prices of real estate in Bulgaria for the last several years, whereas their tax values remained the same. It is a common practice to declare the tax value as a transaction price, when a transaction with a real estate is done. This leads to a number of risks...

This chapter proposes two hypotheses on the publicity requirement and the limitations of possession to provide information for legal titling. It then tests these hypotheses by examining how legal systems deal with possession in movable and immovable property, and comparing actual and documentary...

Home appraisals are produced for millions of residential mortgage transactions each year, but appraisals are rarely below the transaction price. We exploit a unique data set to show that the mortgage application process creates an incentive to substitute the transaction price for the true...

This chapter proposes two hypotheses on the publicity requirement and the limitations of possession to provide information for legal titling. It then tests these hypotheses by examining how legal systems deal with possession in movable and immovable property, and comparing actual and documentary...