This is an empirical study on the vertical dimension of multi-story buildings – floor level and building height. The idea of price gradients in a monocentric city was borrowed to investigate floor-level premiums, which are the price paid for the vertical location (i.e., a higher floor level)...

The paper examines how building height is determined in the absence of building height regulatory restrictions. A model is developed for determining optimal height using simple neo-classical economic analysis; this is then tested using empirical data from Hong Kong. The results show that the...

How shocks in one market influence the return and volatility of other markets has been an important question for portfolio managers. In the finance literature, many studies found evidence of volatility spillovers across international markets as well as between spot and futures markets. Although...

Previous studies on the price-volume relationship focus only on the total volume of transactions without taking into account of the nature of these transactions. While this is a reasonable approach for financial markets, such approach may have ignore some important information in the property...

ERES:conference

ERES:conference

Almost all previous studies on the value of seaview were cross-sectional as it is almost impossible to find any formation or removal of seaview in the scale of man time. However, cross-sectional analysis is well known of its shortcoming in controlling housing quality and temporal components in...

Hong Kong property companies make a significant contribution to the Hong Kong stockmarket and general economy. A key issue is how much of Hong Kong property company performance is attributable to stockmarket performance and how much is attributable to direct property performance. Using a...

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Historical commercial real estate returns are attributed to three fundamental factors: initial current yield, growth in net operating income, and changes in going-in versus going-out capitalization rates (i.e., pricing movements). Separating returns into these three factors appears to provide...