The relationships between 'direct' and 'indirect' property investment, emphasizing information asymmetry and price discovery, have been investigated in the framework of cointegration and using the concept of Granger causality. The implications of information asymmetry in the market have been...

This paper looks at the application of economic and financial series in forecasting IPD monthly rental series. The approach follows that employed in classical business cycle work that seeks to decompose series into trend, cyclical and noise components and is the first time that it has been...

Examines the impact of using “unsmoothing” techniques on real estate data to take pension‐plan asset‐allocation decisions. It is generally believed that valuation‐based real estate indices give rise to returns figures which are “smoothed” versions of the underlying transaction...

We analyse the determinants of prices of flats that are bought on the primary (new construction) and secondary markets (existing stock) in the 17 largest cities in Poland during the 2002–2015 period. We find that prices are driven by economic fundamentals, such as income growth and drop in the...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the property valuation methods that are applied in Poland. It shows that they base on international standards and are a reliable source of information for international investors and banks. Design/methodology/approach: The valuation methods are...

A tanulmány a magyar és a lengyel lakásrendszer átalakulását elemzi. A két ország lakásrendszereinek fejlődése számos közös vonást mutatott a második világháború utáni időszakban, s a rendszerváltás után is hasonló irányban változtak: a közösségi bérlakásszektor...