This paper investigates the random walk behavior of real estate investment trust (REIT) sub-sectors using monthly return data from January 1994 to July 2015. Using variance ratio tests, we examine sub-sectors of lodging/ resorts and self-storage and find that they do not follow a random walk,...

This study applies various popular technical trading rules to Asian property market indices from 1995 to 2015 to investigate the profitability of these rules. The results validate the predictive and profitability power of technical indicators in the markets of Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, and...

This paper reconciles the controversy regarding the substitutability between equity REITs (EREITs) and mortgage REITs (MREITs) in existing literature. Using CRSP/Ziman data from 1992-2011, we show that the driving economic factors on EREIT returns are different from those driving MREIT returns,...

The primary cash financing literature consists of two early 1990s publications. Both of these studies found large cash discounts in residential transaction prices. We revisit this topic by examining residential transaction prices in Pinehurst, North Carolina. We find that cash buyers in the...

A spatial Durbin model (SDM) is developed to estimate the open space proximity values in Fresno-Clovis metropolitan area in Central California circa 2005 to 2012, a time period covering a full market cycle with distinctive boom, bust, and recovery market phases. By controlling for distressed...

Most previous empirical studies on foreclosure price discounts are based on data from housing-market during periods of relative stability (Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Arlington, Texas; and Las Vegas, Nevada in 1980s and 1990s). The few studies with sample periods containing the Liquidity Crisis of...