Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are the only truly liquid assets related to real estate investments. We study the behavior of U.S. REITs over the past three decades and document their return characteristics. REITs have somewhat less market risk than equity; their betas against a broad...

Market-wide, stock market specific and real estate market specific risk - what kind of risk and to which extent drives the returns of listed real estate? Based on a structural asset pricing model calibrated to the empirical data in the U.S., we show that at least two thirds of the risk premium...

The pandemic caused by the Covid-19 virus has severely impacted the real estate industry. The research investigates the relationship between the spread of the virus and REITs performances in Europe, considering the role played by localization and diversification of properties in the real estate...

This article aims to investigate the similarity of public and private real estate returns and risks over the relatively long horizon using data for the U.S and the U.K. The results show evidence of a one-to-one relationship between publicly traded REIT performance and privately traded direct...

The opportunity cost for a household to hold cash above its immediate transactions need leads many households to invest the surplus cash. Two obvious classes of assets for investment are residential real estate and corporate equity. In this paper I elaborate upon all the factors that make an...

A recent literature has shown that REIT returns contain strong evidence of bull and bear dynamic regimes that may be best captured using nonlinear econometric models of the Markov switching type. In fact, REIT returns would display regime shifts that are more abrupt and persistent than in the...

Real estate has been a very large and important portion of wealth for thousands of years. Even as recently as a century ago, real estate dominated institutional portfolios and was classified as property. During recent decades, the preeminence of real estate has yielded to the growing importance...

Optimization of international securitized real estate portfolios has been a key topic for several decades. However, most previous analysis has focused on regional diversification by applying the traditional mean-variance (MV) framework suggested by Markowitz (1952) even if the limitations of...

In this study, we are the first to analyze the illiquidity premia and their effect on the expected returns of German real estate securities. We show that illiquidity plays an important role in expected returns for real estate stocks and investment trusts (REITs), but have less clear effects on...

This paper analyzes the inflation sensitivity of real estate investments, comparing them to other inflation-sensitive assets. The most transparent source of real estate investment returns comes from publicly traded stocks of real estate investment trusts (REITs). The authors examine the...