This paper studies the pricing of the risk associated with the location of the assets. The location risk is measured by ‘local beta’, which combines the systematic risk of local property markets and the property allocation strategy of real estate firms. The empirical results confirm a higher...

This paper models the correlated shocks across regional housing markets and the spillover effects in time-varying housing price volatilities. We explore two kinds of diffusion channels: geographic closeness and economic similarity. Our empirical investigation is based on the Case-Shiller housing...