The three main drivers of investment activity in the real estate sector have been identified as comprising a tripartite mix of bank lending, economy and inflation, and property fundamentals (Gilbertson 2012). Despite their interconnectedness, the impact of each of these factors on real estate...

Research in real estate finance and economics has developed in an exciting way in the past twenty-five years or so. The resulting theoretical and empirical findings are shining a new light on some of the classic mysteries of the real estate markets. It is good to see that a growing proportion of...

This Technical Report documents the construction and coverage of the IWH European Real Estate Index (EREI). Since 2018, we have used machine-learning methods to collect monthly listings of residential real estate available for sale or rent in up to 20 European countries. The Technical Report...