German open-ended real estate funds have net asset values that sum up to €120 bln invested in Germany and abroad. To increase transparency in this dominant investment sector within Germany, IPD has extended the available performance fund indices and now publishes a fund indicator covering the...

This paper has two goals: (a) To model and inherent conflict of interest between a seller of a house and the real estate broker hired by the seller. In this environment, the pressure brokers exert on sellers to reduce prices generates faster sales and hence reduces sellers' expected profit. (b)...

The law governing the United States' $13 trillion mortgage market is broken. Courts and legislatures around the country continue to struggle with the fallout from the effort to build a 21st century global market in mortgages on a fragmented, arguably archaic legal foundation. These authorities'...

India has a growing economy that can support high-income levels and in turn sustain higher real estate prices. The high prices of Indian real estate seem to be in harmony with its fast growing economy. However, there are concerns about speculative bubble behavior in the Indian real estate...

Residential and commercial property owners have sought for centuries to develop and enrich their physical environment through private land use planning. In more recent decades, residential owners residing in community interest communities have been particularly active in crafting an evolving...

In the current stand of literature on the rental adjustment process starting with Hendershott et al. (2002a, 2002b) it has become practice to treat the compound variable "occupied stock" as a supply variable. In this study we show that this variable deserves a more critical investigation and...

In this study, we provide new evidence on the performance measurement and reporting of commercial real estate returns. We do so by examining the accuracy of commercial real-estate appraisals that occurred prior to the sale of properties from the NCREIF National Property Index (“NPI”) during...

This paper uses regime-switching models of the threshold type to analyze the adjustment process of rental prices for three U.K. commercial real estate sectors over the period 1974 to 2008. The non-linear models outperform their linear counterparts in in-sample fit. Their out-of-sample...

Based on the theoretical framework of financial amplification, this study is set up to investigate the dynamic effects of financial stress on the performance of the U.S. real estate market proxied by Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) returns in the United States using vector autoregressive...

Real estate agents rely on current clients for referrals to generate future business; this paper aims to understand whether concern for referrals disciplines the agent. We compare the results for sellers who move to another area (and are thus less likely to provide referrals) with the results...