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Because homeownership represents the largest investment many individuals make, and the risks of competing mortgage products are not well understood, we develop a framework to quantify credit risks of mortgage products. We use simulations to examine the default rates of five types of mortgage...
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"When the Real Estate Clock hits the evening hours and markets are experiencing a decline in vacancy rates, it is time for owners and developers to look at a more efficient and sometimes """"sexy"""" way of proposing their stock to the market. A number of different factors can drive tenants to...
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Value at Risk is a convenient and popular risk measurement tool. It represents the maximum potential loss on a specific portfolio of financial assets given a specific time horizon and a confidence interval. Principally Value at Risk is used in finance for risk management, financial reporting and...
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Timberland is now regarded as a long-term investment with both institutional investors and absentee owners. This paper utilises the IPD Forestry index to examine the performance of UK timberland over the period of 1987-2006. Forestry land in both Australia and the US was found to provide...
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Risk diversification is important to all investors. However, commercial real estate investors in the UK tend to concentrate their holdings in relatively few properties; as a consequence they are vulnerable to significant risk of underperforming the overall market or a target rate of return....
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Lack of land for a large project in Taiwan is not only a problem for housing but also for office and retailing development. In order to satisfy the requirements for eminent office spaces and high-end shops to be located in a prime location, developers often engage in the assembly of a number of...
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Affordability of rural housing has been highlighted as a critical problem by commentators in the UK as part of a wider housing affordability problem which persists despite the recent house price adjustments. The price of rural housing has been implicated in the decline of rural communities as...
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