Purpose – This paper aims to analyse the appraisal of a specialised form of real estate – data centres – that has a unique blend of locational, physical and technological characteristics that differentiate it from conventional real estate assets. Market immaturity, limited trading and a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to deal with the appropriateness of using the Monte Carlo simulation as a technique to calculate risk in real estate development. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is divided into two interlinked segments. The first segment examines the general...

This paper evaluates the double gamma distribution as a means of modelling asymmetry in the conditional distribution of financial data. To do this the model is applied to ten exchange rate series covering mature and emerging market countries. A second contribution of this paper is to highlight...

In finance theory the standard deviation of asset returns is almost universally recognized as a measure of risk. This universality continues to exist even in the presence of known limitations of using the standard deviation and also an extensive and growing literature on alternative risk...

The role of selling (or marketing) period uncertainty in understanding risk associated with property investment is examined in this paper. Using an approach developed by Lin (<CitationRef CitationID="CR14">2004</CitationRef>), and Lin and Vandell (<CitationRef CitationID="CR15">2001</CitationRef>, <CitationRef CitationID="CR16">2005</CitationRef>), combined with a statistical model of UK commercial property transactions, we...</citationref></citationref></citationref>

The behaviour of real estate markets during the 1997–98 Financial crisis in Asian economies has received little attention despite the extensive research on other asset markets over this time. This paper examines the transmission of shocks across national real estate markets prior to and during...