Systematic Equity Return Patterns in Listed European Property Companies

This study investigates systematic monthly return regularities in the listed equity returns of twelve European property companies.? Significant monthly effects exist in all sampled countries with Germany as the single exception. Furthermore, the findings provide evidence of abnormally high December returns, or a December effect, in four international indices (FTSE EPRA/NAREIT international Europe, Euro-zone, Global, and North America) and five European countries (Finland, France, Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom). With the exception of Switzerland, the well-documented January effect is absent from all European property company equity returns.Calendar anomalies; Seasonality; January effect; December effect;International real estate; Public property markets

Random Walks and Market Efficiency: Evidence from Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT) Subsectors

This paper investigates the random walk behavior of real estate investment trust (REIT) subsectors using monthly return data from January 1994 to July 2015. Using variance ratio tests, we examine subsectors of lodging/ resorts and self-storage and find that they do not follow a random walk, contradicting the weak-form efficient market hypothesis. Nonparametric runs tests help us find that office, industrial, mixed, free standing, shopping centers, apartments, manufactured homes, and timberland subsectors are weak-form efficient. The evidence in this study supports the idea that some subsectors are more informationally efficient than other subsectors. Copyright © 2018 The Author(s)

Conservation Status and Residential Transaction Prices: Initial Evidence from Dallas, Texas

The traditional mechanisms of private covenants and public restrictions may not meet the needs of residential property owners who want to preserve a certain neighborhood style. Privately initiated and publicly enforced conservation district regulations can preserve desirable neighborhood characteristics and signal to buyers that neighborhood conformity will likely persist. We analyze residential transaction prices in Dallas, Texas and find premiums associated with residential properties within and buffering conservation district locations. These results are robust to the spatial autocorrelation common in residential transaction prices.

The Value of Green: Evidence from the First Mandatory Residential Green Building Program

There has been recent interest in green building and development practices and research. Resulting from growing environmental awareness and concerns, mandatory residential green building programs have been implemented nationally at the municipal level and Texas has passed legislation to create a statewide program. However, the impact of greenness on residential property values has not been rigorously evaluated. This study examines residential transaction prices in two cities and finds a statistically significant premium associated with green properties. Additionally, there is evidence of a larger premium associated with green properties located in Frisco, Texas which has the nations first mandatory green building program

Club Good Influence on Residential Transaction Prices

We examine residential real estate transactions in a market where an additional property right to a club good may have an influence on prices. We find that for single-family property, the market capitalizes approximately 50% of the full value of the extra property right. For condominiums, the amount reduces to approximately 25%. While these amounts are positive, they clearly are significantly lower than full value

Random walks and market efficiency: evidence from real estate investment trusts (REIT) subsectors

This paper investigates the random walk behavior of real estate investment trust (REIT) subsectors using monthly return data from January 1994 to July 2015. Using variance ratio tests, we examine subsectors of lodging/resorts and self-storage and find that they do not follow a random walk, contradicting the weak-form efficient market hypothesis. Non-parametric runs tests help us find that office, industrial, mixed, free standing, shopping centers, apartments, manufactured homes, and timberland subsectors are weak-form efficient. The evidence in this study supports the idea that some subsec-tors are more informationally efficient than other subsectors

Special issue on property valuation

„Special issue on property valuation” International Journal of Strategic Property Management, 14(1), p. 1 First Published Online: 18 Oct 201

A taxonomic field investigation in to induced bias in residential real estate appraisals

A taxonomic approach to field research was developed and utilized to support empirical and experimental research findings into the impact that incentives/pressures to overvalue have on systematic valuation bias. An expected no‐bias population was defined and valuation judgments from actual, real‐world appraisals were statistically tested against it. The judgments of appraisers presented with no incentive/pressure to over‐value were consistent with the no‐bias population, while the judgments of appraisers presented with incentive/pressure to over‐value were significantly incompatible with the defined no bias population. Santruka Taksonomijos metodas buvo išpletotas ir pritaikytas taikomajam tyrimui siekiant patvirtinti empirinius ir eksperimentinius tyrimu rezultatus, kad paskata arba spaudimas pervertinti yra sistemine paklaida. Buvo apibrežta tiketinoji nešališka imtis ir nustatytos statistines realios vertes. Vertinimai, kuriuose nebuvo paskatos ar spaudimo pervertinti, buvo suderinti su imtimi be sistemines paklaidos, o vertinimai su paskata ar spaudimu pervertinti buvo visiškai nesuderinti su apibrežta imtimi be sistemines paklaidos. First Published Online: 18 Oct 201

Some Further Evidence on the Price of Mortgage Contingency Clauses

A sample of row houses is used to investigate the price effects of mortgage contingency clauses in sales contracts. The results indicate a substantial price premium is associated with such contingencies, with the size of the premium indifferent to other transaction-specific variables.

Are markets adaptive? Evidence of predictability and market efficiency of lodging/resort REITs

We investigate the degree of return predictability of lodging/resort real estate investment trusts (REITs) from January 1994 to May 2016. We test the Martingale hypothesis by using linear (automatic portmanteau and automatic variance ratio with rolling windows) and nonlinear tests (generalized spectral shape tests and Dominguez-Lobato consistent tests). Our findings support the Adaptive Market Hypothesis (AMH) and reveal that returns experience periods of both dependence and independence. We document time-varying predictability of lodging/resort REITs with returns as both initially predictable and subsequently unpredictable throughout the majority of the period of analysis. Moreover, we find that if traders use simple technical trading moving average rules, they can capitalize on the inefficiencies of lodging/resort REITs. Finally, we observe that absolute returns and Sharpe ratios of technical moving average rules outperform a simple buy-and-hold strategy