The application of real options theory to commercial real estate has developed rapidly during the last 15 Years. In particular, several pricing models have been applied to value real options embedded in development projects. In this study we use a case study of a mixed use development scheme and...

Research into market liquidity has increasingly focused on transaction (trade-by-trade) data. This has been valuable but has also increased the costs of studying the behavior of liquidity over longer periods of time. It has, however, also been shown that daily data can be examined in such as way...

Volatility, or the variability of the underlying asset, is one of the fundamental key components of property derivative pricing and in the application of real option models in development analysis. There has been relatively little work on the application of volatility to real estate property...

Several empirical studies have examined the volatility of either the components or the whole of real estate returns of different sectors, using data sets from a variety of sources. A number of studies looked in detail into the unconditional distributions of returns, such as Young et al (2006),...

Previous research has focused on the link between returns in the REIT industry, the stock market and the housing market. However, none, so far, have examined the possibility of bubble spillovers from either of the markets to the securitised real estate market. In this paper, we test for the...

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Industrial or commercial tenancies incur costs to the tenant which are both directly and inversely related to the length of the tenancy. From optimisation theory, the result of this is that there is a unique optimum tenancy length for each tenant at each location, and tenants will be willing to...

One of the most vexing issues for analysts and managers of property companies across Europe has been the existence and persistence of deviations of Net Asset Values of property companies from their market capitalisation. The issue has clear links to similar discounts and premiums in closed-end...