This is the Editors' Introduction to the special issue of the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. The issue includes six papers presented at the 2015 Maastricht-NUS-MIT (MNM) Symposium on International Real Estate Finance and Economics, held at the National University of Singapore in...

This paper investigates whether it is possible to create value through the active management of direct property portfolios. Using data from the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, we examine whether trading intensity and portfolio growth explain the risk and return characteristics...

This paper examines the long run relation between prices and rents for houses in Amsterdam from 1650 through 2005. We first demonstrate that these series are cointegrated, a necessary condition for studying movements of the rent-price ratio. We then estimate the deviation of house prices from...