The statistics, finance, and real estate literature regularly rely on propensity score matching techniques to balance samples of data where randomized treatment assignment is not possible. In the sustainable commercial real estate literature the technique has seen substantive use. To analyze...

Across public health, medicine, urban planning, real estate and public policy interest in walkability, a latent construct, has grown substantially. Using the multi-family housing market as a lens through which to examine consumer preferences, this paper exploits a large spatially diverse data...

The economic effect of climate hazard events varies by time and by location. This paper investigates how climate shocks to local property markets spillover to capital markets. We also provide evidence of how forward-looking climate risk is capitalized into the public valuations of those property...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether energy-efficient green buildings tend to provide net lease structures over gross lease ones. It then considers whether owners benefit by trading away operational savings in a net lease structure. Design/methodology/approach: Empirical...

This paper explores private equity real estate fund performance and voluntary environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosures. Using data from the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF), it examines the relationship between performance for funds in the Open-Ended...

Using a sample of CCIM designees and candidates in an experimental setting, this study examines the impact of broker signaling in commercial real estate transactions. It also explores the effect of certainty of closure in commercial real estate transactions. Findings suggest brokers are able to...

This article investigates how emerging real estate markets price information conveyed by voluntary environmental certification schemes. In addition to low incidence of green buildings, developing countries typically exhibit weaker environmental performance due to limited capacity to enforce...