The value of land is determined by the locations' attractiveness and the degree of regulation. When land regulations are binding, e.g. when a restriction on the maximum floor area ratio exists, the best use land price can be directly expressed as a function of the maximum floor area ratio and...

This paper uses regime-switching models of the threshold type to analyze the adjustment process of rental prices for three UK commercial real estate sectors over the period 1974 to 2008. The non-linear models outperform their linear counterparts in in-sample fit. Their out-of-sample forecasting...

Based on 92,600 rental contracts in the Swiss real estate market, we study how a property's CO2 emissions affect net rental values. We use a novel measure of operational carbon emissions that relies on various parameters related to the sustainability and energy efficiency of a building as well...