The paper compares and contrast the bias, accuracy, and uncertainty in US housing start forecasts. In comparison to the large forecast accuracy literature to have considered macroeconomic series a relatively smaller number of papers have considered the accuracy of property forecasts. Even in...

The study makes use of a panel dataset for twelve European cities provided by DTZ and augmented by financial and business services employment data provided by Oxford Economics. In recent years there has been significant development in panel testing and modeling for non-stationary panel data and...

The purpose of this study is to examine the relative performance of European commercial real estate markets, with an emphasis on the three largest evolving markets for the recent new entrants to the EU in May 2005 namely, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. Employing a panel data oriented...

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This study sets out a practical methodology for assessing and measuring the risk of unlisted property funds on a forward looking basis. Renewed investor interest in property as an asset class had led to tremendous growth in the size and importance of the indirect property investment market....

The real estate market in Poland is a relatively immature market, but one that has been experiencing substantial transformation. The development of the market has been encouraged by a number of factors, including changes arising as a result of new legislation and the migration of capital between...

A large number of studies have previously examined the effect of interest rate changes on the securitised real estate market. However, the majority have focused on aggregate index level data. Few studies have been undertaken on micro-level data. These lead to a question of whether previous...

This study re-examines the diversification opportunities that may arise from the inclusion of the private real estate market in a mixed-asset portfolio. The paper's two primary contributions are that firstly we examine this issue through the use of a mean-variance spanning approach rather than...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the stability of the beta coefficient for US equity REITs over bull and bear market conditions. In particular, we assess whether and to what extent the implied relationship between beta and returns can be established in up and down market conditions using...

In this study, we examine how the transparency of securities affects herding among security analysts, measured in terms of the prevailing consensus and recent revisions by other analysts. Prior literature suggests a relationship between market information and analysts herding behavior, with the...