Analyzing a large dataset of urban non-slum households, we find that homeownership tenure choice in India is significantly associated with gender, religion and caste.In particular, large households or those headed by women or with larger number of women are significantly more inclined towards...

List of figures -- List of tables -- List of images -- Foreword / by Julian Diaz III -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Introduction to real estate finance -- The value of time -- Mortgage banking in India -- Fixed rate mortgage -- Alternate mortgage types -- Managing real estate...

Institutional investors such as pension funds or insurance companies commonly invest in the unsecuritized and securitized real estate market. We investigate how institutional investor sentiment in the commercial real estate market affects institutional trading behavior in the REIT market and...