The issue of whether Real Estate Investment Trusts should pursue a focused or diversified investment strategy remains an ongoing debate within both the academic and industry communities. This paper considers the relationship between REITs focused on different property sectors in a GARCH-DCC...

The issue of whether Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) should pursue a focused or diversified investment strategy remains an ongoing debate within both the academic and industry communities. This article considers the relationship between REITs focused on different property sectors in a...

The paper examines the inter-relationship between REIT sub-sectors based on property type. The data used in this paper consists of daily returns for the period January 1 1990 through December 30 2005 totalling 4175 observations. During this time the popularity of REITS has expanded dramatically...

S<sc>tevenson</sc> S., A<sc>kimov</sc> A., H<sc>utson</sc> E. and K<sc>rystalogianni</sc> A. Concordance in global office market cycles, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. A large proportion of international real estate investment is concentrated in the office markets of the world's largest cities. However, many of these global cities are also key...

This study re-examines the diversification opportunities that may arise from the inclusion of the private real estate market in a mixed-asset portfolio. The paper's two primary contributions are that firstly we examine this issue through the use of a mean-variance spanning approach rather than...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the stability of the beta coefficient for US equity REITs over bull and bear market conditions. In particular, we assess whether and to what extent the implied relationship between beta and returns can be established in up and down market conditions using...