Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide technically robust indicators of housing market performance from the records held by the Ghana Land Valuation Board, through the construction of the first ever residential price and rent indices for the aggregate and disaggregate markets....

The paper will first describe the construction of indices of prices, rentals, yields and total returns for residential investments in Ghana. The performance measures run from 1992 to 2007 and are the first indicators of real estate investment performance in Ghana. They result from hedonic...

The objective of the research was to analyse and evaluate the role of real estate in the UK's defined contribution (DC) pensions market in relation to auto-enrollment – the new system of pension scheme provision for private sector employees in the UK, which is being phased in by all employers...

The issue of diversification in direct real estate investment portfolios has been one of the most widely studied topics in academic and practitioner literature. Most work, however, has been done using mean returns and risks for broad market segments as inputs to asset allocation models, or in a...

This article studies the ability of momentum strategies to generate extra-profits in private real estate markets. We test a variety of frequencies of portfolio re-weighting and periods over which winner and loser segments are identified. Finally, since real estate returns tend to be highly...

An extensive literature on smoothing issues in real estate markets has been published, covering a range of theoretical techniques, applications to indices and asset allocation. A recent paper by Geltner et al [2002] reviewed the main theoretical approaches to the construction of unsmoothing...