In this paper we analyse the influence of expectations on the timing of office development in Amsterdam, Hong Kong and Singapore over a 25 year period. The forces that influence office development have been subject of a long history of empirical studies. Statistical work by Rosen (1984), Wheaton...

Real estate research has a long and extensive history of analyzing rent dynamics. Due to data availability constraints the retail market has been the least researched segment of main real estate sectors, despite its import role within the real estate universe (in the US for example the overall...

In this paper we examine the influence of location and clustering on office rents. We test for this influence in a longitudinal study for the city of Amsterdam over a distinctive property market cycle by means of a unique dataset which comprises the substantial majority of actual transactions....

This study examines office return determinants for major European office centers during the period 1990-2006. Our main hypothesis is that while the demand for office space is regarded as derived demand, the state of the local economy explains more about local office markets than the state of the...

Real estate research has a long and extensive history of analyzing space market dynamics. Nonetheless, two areas have been under researched. Regional panels of data have been rarely analyzed. Moreover, due to data constraints, the retail market has been studied much less than other market...

Energy consumption in the commercial property sector offers an important opportunity for conserving resources. In this study, we evaluate the financial implications of two elements of “sustainability” – energy efficiency and accessibility – in the market for commercial real estate. An...

This paper examines the relationships between private and listed real estate performance in a novel manner, using international data for one single real estate sector, offices. The fact that property companies are nearly fully invested in real estate should result in a high correlation between...

This study empirically tests the trade-off between the costs and benefits of agglomeration for a large sample of firms. In line with the existing literature, it is found that population and employment density benefit productivity, but increase labour and real estate costs. To test the trade-off...