We address in this study the question of whether significant price increases occurring during the up-phase of the property cycle can in part be explained by speculative bubble. The findings indicate that the Swedish market for income real estate may have been partly driven by a speculative...

This paper investigates the relation between the term structure of rents and future spot rents. A rich database of office rental agreements for various maturities is used to estimate the term structure of rents, and from this structure implicit forward rents are extracted. The data pertain to...

Markets for property space adjust only gradually because tenants and landlords are constrained by long-term leases and transaction and information costs. Not only do rents adjust slowly, but space occupancy, which depends on historical rents, often differs from demand at current rent. This...