As current editors of "Real Estate Economics" ("REE") we feel it is our responsibility to offer our readers some comments regarding the preceding article by Gibler and Ziobrowski. Our comments are intended to convey our policy regarding publication of articles of this nature, as well as some...

Due to the relocation of manufacturing facilities from Hong Kong to Mainland China, it is widely believed that some vacant private factories have been used as offices in Hong Kong. Yet there is no direct and systematic evidence to support this speculation. In fact, according to MacGregor and...

This paper describes the engineering of a set of indexes for tracking same property realized price appreciation in the U.S. commercial real estate asset market, based on the transactions database of Real Capital Analytics, Inc (RCA). The set of regression-based, repeat-sales indexes developed so...

This paper develops a “pseudo repeat sale” estimation sample construction procedure (ps-RS) to construct more reliable and less biased quality-controlled price indices for newly-constructed homes. The method may be useful wherever new housing development is of sufficiently large scale and...

This paper reviews the literature on price determination in the private and public real estate markets. In particular, it discusses the processes of appraisal smoothing in the private market and of price discovery between the public and the private markets. In real estate markets, the absence of...

"The purpose of this paper is to describe and hone a methodology by which a quarterly transactions-based index of property-level investment performance could be regularly produced for the U.S. institutional real estate investment industry. The objective is to produce a series of indices of...