ERES:conference

ERES:conference

It has been widely agreed in real estate literature that housing submarkets should be adopted as a working hypothesis. This paper revisits the housing sub-market hypothesis and seeks to spatially delineate residential market segments using Hong Kong geo-coded transaction data. Spatial...

In this paper we examine empirically the closed-end fund puzzle for stock quoted Swiss real estate mutual funds in 1970-2003. For this period shares of those mutual funds are predominately quoted with a premium to the net asset value. Using a panel approach we examine whether both the rational...

This paper proposes an improved net rate analysis using the assessed land values to proxy market land values in real estate appraisals. Compared to the traditional sales comparison approach, the method has greatly simplified the comparison process and extended the potential pool of comparable...

During the last years, the Greek real estate market has increasingly internationalized, mainly due to the financial liberalization. Globalization requires the broad use of the international valuation standards in accordance to the International Accounting Standards, under the pressures of EU and...

This paper conducts tests of the random walk hypothesis and market efficiency for twelve emerging securitized real estate markets as well as for four developed securitized real estate markets from 1992 to 2009. Random walk properties of equity prices influence return dynamics and market...

ERES:conference

Investing in real estate, as in any other market, involves risk. To assess investment risk, different measures are used, including measures based on probability distribution (like volatility measures and safety level) as well as measures based on distribution function (the probability of not...

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...