This study evaluates residential property as an institutional asset group in three European countries (The Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland). These are countries where the involvement of institutional investors in private rented housing is significant compared to other countries in Western...

Purpose: The study aims to analyze the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on house prices. Design/methodology/approach: The authors start by discussing the possibility that house price indexes may not fully incorporate the effects of the pandemic as of yet. Against the background of the pandemic,...

Purpose:The article analyzes the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on house prices.Design/Methodology/Approach:We start by discussing the possibility that house price indexes may not fully incorporate the effects of the pandemic as of yet. Against the background of the pandemic, we then analyze...

This study evaluates residential property as an institutional asset group in two European countries (Switzerland and the Netherlands). These are countries where housing is the main institutional property asset group, with institutional property portfolio allocations of over 52% and 50%...

Residential property in a multi‐asset portfolio context has been considered from two substantially different perspectives: institutional investor's and the household's perspective. This paper constitutes the first of two related surveys on the role of residential property in a multi‐asset...

This second of two related papers in this Journal, reviews empirical evidence available from the literature on the problem of household's optimal portfolio when owner‐occupied housing is included in the list of available assets, namely the risk‐return performance of residential investment,...

An increasing amount of research has been devoted to internet search query data and its application to predict a broad variety of indicators such as stock/property markets, unemployment or flu infections.This paper aims to investigate whether changes in internet queries can be used to formulate...

This thesis advises on the optimal index construction technique on behalf of the commercial real estate broker organisation Dynamis in the Netherlands. The database contains 1993 rent-renewals in fifteen years of brokerage from 1984 to 1998. Out of the plethora of indices available in the real...

This paper aims to examine the issue of economic diversification in the context of the office markets in New York and London. These two markets are two of the most liquid office markets and attract a large degree of international investment. However, both cities are key financial service centres...

Several studies have analyzed the role of real estate in a multi asset portfolio, but little work has been done on how to formulate real estate strategies within the context of a multi asset portfolio. An unconstrained real estate strategy needs to take into account the impact of leverage as...