Fusion CMBSs, UPREITs, paper-clip and paired share REITs, conduits and opportunity funds - all these phrases, words or phrases are common in today's real estate lexicon but were not around a decade ago. This evolution in real estate industry vernacular reflects deep and fundamental change in the...

This paper synthesizes elements of the traditional and contemporary theory of real estate markets to formulate an empirical framework for exploring metropolitan office rent processes. Such a framework is then applied to the analysis of office rents across eighteen U.S. office markets during...

For many years operating companies around the world generally have owned their realestate assets. In the United States alone it is estimated that corporate users own nearly $2 trillion,or roughly half of all commercial property. Companies own not only their production facilities,but frequently...

The significance of James A. Graaskamp for the academic real estate profession is anopen question: divergent views on his accomplishments need to be reconciled. On the surface,there is a sharply divided perception between his admirers and his critics. Charismatic leaders(many of his admirers...

This paper addresses the micro-analytic foundations of illiquidity and price dynamics in the realestate market by integrating modern portfolio theory with models describing the real estate transactionprocess. Based on the notion that real estate is a heterogeneous good that is traded in...

This paper provides a conceptual basis for the price discovery potential for tradable market instruments and specifically the development of mortgage securitization in Asia and the potential dangers of such markets. Nonetheless we argue for the potential importance of securitization in Asia...

While other countries dismantled their segmented housing finance systems and linked housing finance to capital markets through deregulated depositories, the US linked housing finance to capital markets through depository deregulation and securitization. Elsewhere securitization has not...