The adequate measurement of real estate risk is of utmost importance for asset management and real estate portfolio management. Most real estate academics agree that volatility is inappropriate for that purpose. However, it is still a favored measure of many practitioners and academics due to...

Real estate in common with many other business sectors has experienced significant levels of internationalisation in its market activities over the last decade. These range from the internationalisation of key market actors such as real estate service providers and investors to the increasingly...

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The traditional measurement of active management is to calculate the tracking error of the fund; as measured by the standard deviation of the difference in a fund's returns versus its benchmark returns. However, tracking error alone is an inadequate measure of fund activity since even very...

Purpose – When one talks of the return performance one typically refers to an average buy‐and‐hold return, also known as time‐weighted return. However, the returns of investors can be quite different. Investor returns are determined not only by the returns on the underlying assets but...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the hypothesis that investment decision making in the UK direct property market does not conform to the assumption of economic rationality underpinning portfolio theory. Design/methodology/approach – The developing behavioural real estate...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether geographical distance or economic distance offers greater diversification benefits in the UK office market. Design/methodology/approach The real estate investment data for this study come from the Investment Property Databank analysis “UK...

Purpose This study aims to examine the impact of “space-as-a-service” (SAAS) provision on office rents in the UK and quantify premia to office rents. Design/methodology/approach Using hedonic modelling techniques the authors are able to quantify the impact of a number of SAAS features on...

In two recent papers Byrne and Lee (2006, 2007) examined the geographical concentration of institutional office and retail investment in England and Wales at two points in time; 1998 and 2003. The findings indicate that commercial office portfolios are concentrated in a very few urban areas,...

This paper uses data provided by three major real estate advisory firms to investigate the level and pattern of variation in the measurement of historic real estate rental values for the main European office centres. The paper assesses the extent to which the data providing organizations agree...