Purpose: This paper aims to examine the relationship between the use of public debt and investment activity of European listed real estate companies. Design/methodology/approach: Using a hand-collected sample of debt structures of 102 European public real estate companies, and using European...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) on European private equity real estate (PERE) industry. Design/methodology/approach: The paper draws upon a set of 12 semi-structured interviews with European PERE fund...

The article studies the development of the public real estate equity sector. The paper describes and analyses the legislative development regarding the sector and the vehicles provided. It discusses the past development of public commercial real estate equity investments in Finland and their...

Office market modelling has attracted a mounting amount of interest among researchers and practitioners during past decades. Growing research activity in the area is not surprising considering the importance of rent on property values. Nonetheless, very little quantitative research on Finnish...

Green attributes of the occupied building seem to have a growing importance for the real estate occupiers. In this study the situation in the Helsinki Metropolitan area was researched by a questionnaire conducted in 2009. 90 responses were taken into a detailed analysis representing micro and...

With an increasing body of scientific evidence showing the sustainability issues have been catapulted to the very top of the global political agenda. Governments and societies around the world are becoming increasingly united on the need to reduce the negative environmental effects. As a result...

In recent research, the heterogeneity of the occupiers and the submarkets is highlighted in order to better understand the spatial demand derived by the occupiers and the dynamics of the office markets. This paper aims to extend the intrametropolitan office choice literature by testing the...

<title>ABSTRACT</title> Covered bonds are an alternative way of investing indirectly in the debt side of real estate, which is beneficial for investors looking for alternatives to government or corporate bonds. Due to the dual nature of the protection offered by covered bonds, they have a justified place in...

<title>Abstract</title> This paper studies the market selection criteria in international real estate investments. It presents the results of a questionnaire study among internationally investing property investors in Europe. The results indicate that the most important factors for market selection are safety...

<title>Abstract</title> The Finnish commercial property market internationalised rapidly in the beginning of the 21st century. According to the portfolio theory and previous research on international property investments, the main motivation factor driving international real estate investments is the...