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Common Risk Factors and Risk Premia in Direct and Securitized Real Estate Markets

This study empirically examined the effects of systematic market and common risk factors in explaining the variations in excess returns of securitized and direct real estate using multi-factor asset pricing models MAP. The homogeneity of risk premia associated with the economic risk factors was also tested to determine whether the...

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White papers 2004-05-17

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WORLD MARKETS The Nikkei stock average edged down 0.1 per cent to a one-month closing low in its longest losing streak this year, with Toyota and other exporters sold due to worries about the US economy. The Nikkei's fifth straight negative day saw property developers suffer after...

Articles 2008-06-26

NAHREP and VivaReal.us Reach Agreement, Giving Hispanic Real Estate Pros Prominent Placement on www.VivaReal.us

SANTA ROSA, Calif. -- The National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals NAHREP has signed a two-year agreement with VivaReal, operated by Bilingual Marketing Group, an online real estate media company, that will give its 15,500 members prominent placement on the recently launched Spanish-language web site VivaReal.us (www.vivareal.us). The online...

Articles 2008-06-25

Report on the Development Forecasts for Romanian Construction Sector Available Now

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/1c2551/construction_secto) has announced the addition of the "Construction Sector in Romania 2008 - Development Forecasts for 2008-2010" report to their offering. Romania's construction market undergone rapid expansion in recent years, and European Union membership can only serve to accelerate this trend. The...

Articles 2008-06-25

Fitch's 2008 Global Banking Conference: Audio Files and Presentations Now Available

NEW YORK & LONDON -- Fitch Ratings has concluded its annual Global Banking conference and, with its conclusion, is making available the complete set of conference audio files, speaker and slide presentations for market participants, Fitch subscribers and journalists. Speaker, audio and slide presentations include: --Fitch's...

Articles 2008-06-25

Housing Coalition expanding network of counselors for home buyers

Following the old real-estate maxim that, even in a bad housing market, it's always a good time to own a house, nonprofit groups, homeowners and the state are partnering for a campaign to improve homebuyer education. A new Housing Education Coalition of Utah, underwritten by the state...

Articles 2008-06-25

Dallas-Area Homebuilder Responds to Department of Commerce Housing Report

Mockingbird Properties Principal Says Recent Data Shows Relative Strength of the D-FW Housing Market DALLAS -- The U.S. Department of Commerce today released data on May new home sales, reporting that new home sales were down 2.5 percent nation-wide, falling by 11.6 percent in the West while rising...

Articles 2008-06-25

Commentary: A lot contributes to the oil price bubble

"Black gold, Texas tea." If only Jed Clampet was around today, he would be considered a billionaire. The price of oil is now the main topic of conversation for global consumers. Recent volatility in oil and other commodities is being rationalized by pundits,...

Articles 2008-06-25

Raising Taxes on Real Estate Partnerships Would Harm Millions

ALTA Joins Industry Effort to Caution Congress WASHINGTON -- In a joint letter today to Congress, the American Land Title Association ALTA joined with 16 other real estate industry groups urging Congress not to raise taxes on real estate partnerships, saying it would further damage an already shaky...

Articles 2008-06-25

Focus on the European Warehousing and Industrial Real Estate Outlook 2008

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Logistics and freight industry is available in its catalogue. European Warehousing and Industrial Real Estate Outlook 2008 http://www.reportlinker.com/p090385/European-Warehousing-and-Industrial-Real-Estate-Outlook-2008.html Introduction Increasing amounts of equity based capital will target the European warehousing and industrial real estate markets...

Articles 2008-06-25

Digital Map Products Helps Habitat for Humanity Compete More Efficiently in the Development Market

Digital Map Products DMP( http://www.digitalmapproducts.com ) today announced it has donated itsGIS-powered knowledge capture and visualization tool LandVisionTM toOrlando, Florida's Habitat for Humanity chapter. With the downturn of the real estate market, Digital Map Products presidentand founder Jim Skurzynski says many small and mid-sized organizationsdoing in-fill, low-income, senior housing and...

Articles 2008-06-25

State workers to move to Strawbridge building

Three floors of the historic Strawbridge & Clothier building in Center City, vacant since the once-vaunted department store shut its doors two years ago, are becoming the new home of 750 state workers, under a deal to be announced today. The lease, signed last week by the state Department of...

Articles 2008-06-24

Global economy coming to a halt, Ifo says

FRANKFURT AFP — The global economy is coming to a halt, the Munich-based Ifo economic research institute said Tuesday, amid slowdowns in western Europe, the United States and China. Ifo's World Economic Climate indicator fell "to its lowest level in more than six years" in the second quarter...

Articles 2008-06-24

Maguire Properties Declares Preferred Stock Dividend

LOS ANGELES -- Maguire Properties, Inc. (NYSE: MPG), a Southern California-focused real estate investment trust, announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a dividend payable on its Series A Preferred Stock for the period of May 1, 2008 through and including July 31, 2008 of $0.4766 per preferred...

Articles 2008-06-24

John Waters Joins Douglas Wilson Companies as COO

SAN DIEGO -- Veteran real estate and asset management executive John A. Waters has joined Douglas Wilson Companies as chief operating officer. Company President Robert Richley said Waters will oversee DWC's real estate and workout operations in the company's four offices in San Diego, San Francisco, Atlanta, and...

Articles 2008-06-24

HSBC's gloomy report brings Land down to earth

MARKET REPORT A bearish real estate sector review by HSBC depressed Land Securities, which was the worst performer on the London benchmark yesterday. The commercial property group was down 64p at 1,275p after the broker said it expects "further absolute falls" in sector shares...

Articles 2008-06-24

New Homes With SunPower Solar Systems are Bright Spot in Market

New Homes with Solar Selling Twice as Fast; 92 Percent of Homeowners Would Recommend a Solar Home SAN JOSE, Calif., June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- While much of the residential real estate and building markets have faced severe challenges in recent months, there is one area that is...

Articles 2008-06-24

Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: UBS, BlackRock, Electroglas, Amkor Technology and Broadcom

CHICAGO -- Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: UBS AG (NYSE: UBS), BlackRock (NYSE: BLK), Electroglas, Inc. (Nasdaq: EGLS),...

Articles 2008-06-24

Aon eSolutions Releases Environmental Module

Provides property owners and real estate developers with comprehensive, real-time view of environmental risks, compliance and coverage issues CHICAGO, June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aon eSolutions, the client technology arm of Aon Corporation and the leading provider of global risk and insurance solutions, today announced it has...

Articles 2008-06-24

Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust Announces Major Lease with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

PHILADELPHIA -- Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (NYSE: PEI) announced today that it has come to terms on a 224,000 square foot office lease with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for space located on the fourth, fifth and sixth floors in the historic Strawbridge & Clothier building at 8th and Market...

Articles 2008-06-24