This paper studies idiosyncratic risk at the level of individual house resales. It is commonly assumed that the idiosyncratic price component follows a random walk. I show that housing market data reject this model, and that idiosyncratic risk is instead close to constant for holding periods up...

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...

This paper tests the random walk hypothesis and market efficiency for twelve emerging as well as for four developed securitized real estate markets from 1992 to 2009. Random walk properties of equity prices influence return dynamics, and market efficiency is often considered an essential...

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...

In historical testing, valuation-indifferent indexing produces statistically significant and economically large outperformance relative to traditional capitalization-weighted indexes. This result has been found for both U.S. and global equity data, as well as U.S. corporate bonds and emerging...

This work represents a first attempt to price European commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS) and our results are consistent with research carried out in the US market. More specifically this research intends to study the significance of bond, mortgage and property-related variables in the...

This study evaluates the effectiveness of geographic diversification in reducing housing investment risk. To characterize diversification potential, we estimate spatial correlation and integration among 401 US metropolitan housing markets. The 2000s boom brought a marked uptrend in housing...

This paper studies idiosyncratic price dispersion in the US housing market. We develop a new strategy to measure dispersion at the level of individual house sales. We show that idiosyncratic price dispersion is countercyclical and seasonal, and is associated with various measures of market...

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...

Cross-border real estate investing offers opportunities for enhanced diversification. Investors often begin real estate investing domestically because local opportunities are more familiar and easier to undertake than cross-border (international) investments. As investors gain experience...