This paper proposes an empirical framework that is based on pre-trade transparency to test for information-based return co-movements among international commercial real estate markets. We introduce a benchmark portfolio that includes property markets with a higher pre-trade transparency to...

For most of the past decades, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region has experienced rapid expansion, driven largely by increasing energy revenues, and growth-focused government policies. As the region's population increases in size, and becomes wealthier and more urbanized, significant...

German open-ended real estate funds have net asset values that sum up to €120 bln invested in Germany and abroad. To increase transparency in this dominant investment sector within Germany, IPD has extended the available performance fund indices and now publishes a fund indicator covering the...

Real estate investments have become international. Therefore also the returns have to be judged in an international comparative context. The question arises whether the returns of the German real estate market have justified the investments by domestic and foreign investors? The answer is: Yes...

This research starts from the observation that common desmoothing models are likely to generate some extreme returns. Such returns will distort risk measurement and hence can lead to investment decisions that are suboptimal relative to those that would be made if a transaction based index were...

Using a sample of 47,260 annual and 12,276 unique property observations during 2000 - 2011 we analyze the relationship between capital expenditures and performance by employing 2SLS models, in which capital expenditures are modeled as a function of property characteristics (age, square footage,...

Using simulation analysis and property-level data for the U.S., we compare performance metrics for portfolios containing varying proportions of gateway and non-gateway markets. Risk-adjusted performance is found to be similar across types of markets. Gateway markets have higher appreciation and...

Germany has attracted substantial real estate investments from abroad within the last years. Furthermore, German investors have also invested again a higher percentage of their capital earmarked for real estate at home. Therefore it has to be examined whether the German real estate returns have...

Derivatives on real estate indices have the potential to increase effectively the liquidity of real estate as an asset class. A well-functioning market for real estate derivatives will help diversify investment markets since real estate derivates allow investors to change synthetically and...

We study long-term returns on residential real estate in twenty-seven "superstar" cities in fifteen countries over 150 years. We find that total returns in superstar cities are close to 100 basis points lower per year than in the rest of the country. House prices tend to grow faster in the...