Two strands of real estate research--that concerned with the relationships between securitized real estate and the underlying market and that dealing with the role of property in the wider economy--rarely are considered together. The paper utilizes the U.K. equity market and property company...

Efficient markets should guarantee the existence of zero spreads for total return swaps. However, real estate markets have recorded values that are significantly different from zero in both directions. Possible explanations might suggest non-rational behaviour by inexperienced market players or...

This paper studies the pricing of the risk associated with the location of the assets. The local real estate market risk is measured by ‘local beta’, which combines the systematic risk of local property markets and the property allocation strategy of real estate firms. The empirical results...