In this paper, we aim to analyze the importance of traditional social networks in selling real estate. In recent years, the use of various social networking sites like FaceBook, LinkedIn is ubiquitous, to the extent that these social networking sites are now commonly used as a tool by real...

Existing research has highlighted the high leverage ratio of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). To the extent that credit rating is important to REITs when sourcing for capital from the public debt markets, our paper investigates the effect of changes in REIT credit ratings on capital...

type="main" <p>This article compares whether the first-price sealed-bid tender or the ascending English open auction generates higher revenue for the seller. Using a unique set of data for land sales and accounting for the presence of an endogenous discrete mechanism choice variable, our results...</p>

This paper examines the role of capital market conditions and target leverage on the marginal financing decisions of REITs, which include both capital raising and capital reduction activities. We investigate the relevance of a hybrid hypothesis whereby REITs have target leverage, but they also...

The volatility of a stock returns can be decomposed into market and firm-specific volatility, with the former commonly known as systematic risk and the later as idiosyncratic risk. This study examines the relevance of idiosyncratic risk in explaining the monthly cross-sectional returns of REIT...

We examine the wealth effects of land acquisition using on a unique set of public land auction data in Singapore. The results of our event study provide evidence of positive excess returns associated with announcements of successful land acquisition. The evidence also supports the hypothesis...

This paper examines the incidence of secured debt amongst UK property companies. The empirical evidence shows that nearly three quarters of all outstanding loans of the quoted property sector are issued on a secured basis. Results of the tobit regressions appear to suggest that small and risky...

In this paper, VAR models are employed to trace the price response of existing houses to the quantity of new units launched by homebuilders in Singapore between 1996 and 2009. Contrary to the ‘competition’ hypothesis prediction of a negative reaction, it is found that marginal supply...