We evaluate the sustainability of real estate investment vehicles in Switzerland according to the three Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) pillars. For this purpose, we conducted a survey of direct investors (real estate investment companies, funds, and foundations) inquiring about...

This chapter examines the main unlisted real estate funds available (openend funds and closed-end funds), as well as the most important listed real estate funds (REITs and ETFs based on real estate indices). The chapter also analyzes the extent to which analysis of publicly traded real estate...

This paper investigates the inflation hedging capability of listed real estate (LRE) companies from 1990 to 2021 in four economies: the US, the UK, Australia, and Japan. By using a Markov switching vector error correction model (MS-VECM), we identify that the short-term hedging ability moves...