This paper examines the performance of active US domestic real estate mutual funds (REMFs) relative to a passive benchmark, both before and after fund managers' compensation. We consider both the REMF sector as a whole, and also individual funds, separately against stock market and real estate...

This paper studies the time variation of the correlation between real estate stocks and the stock market and the implications for portfolio management. Monthly correlation series are estimated from daily returns for 14 American, Asian, and European countries/areas over 1990 to 2005 and strong...

Informational efficient prices are a necessary requirement for optimal resource allocation in the commercial real estate market. Prices are informational efficient if they reflect buildings' benefit to marginal buyers, thereby taking account of all available information on future market...

We study the impact of macroeconomic factors on apartment house prices. A simple version of the so-called new IS/LM model is used to analyze the interaction of macroeconomic variables and prices. It is assumed that prices follow the rational valuation formula (RVF), which states that prices...

Statistische Prognosen basieren auf der Annahme, dass ein funktionaler Zusammenhang zwischen der zu prognostizierenden Variable y und anderen j-dimensional beobachtbaren Variablen x = (x1,...xl) besteht. Kann der funktionale Zusammenhang geschätzt werden, so kann im Prinzip für jedes x der...

The quality of newly constructed single-family houses is usually homogeneous in and heterogeneous between neighborhoods. Such quality-clustering will be caused by the variation of natural amenities throughout a suburban area. Clustering will be enforced if the quality of neighboring buildings...

Statistische Prognosen basieren auf der Annahme, dass ein funktionaler Zusammenhang zwischen der zu prognostizierenden Variable y und anderen dimensionalen beobachtbaren Variablen x=(x1,...,xj)t – Rj besteht. Kann der funktionale Zusammenhang geschätzt werden, so kann im Prinzip für jedes x...

We analyze the behavior of investors in the Berlin rental apartment house market over the years 1980-2004. Using constant-quality multipliers (price-rent ratios), we reject the hypothesis that multipliers in the market were set in a rational manner. Supported by narrative evidence, we conjecture...