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Diversifying Into Real Estate: Its a Good Thing
This paper examines different asset classes and concludes that only real estate seems to offer diversification benefits at the very times when these benefits are...
Company: University of Wisconsin
Date: October 2000 |
University of Wisconsin |
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Market Efficiency and Return Statistics: Evidence From Real Estate and Stock Markets Using a Present-Value Approach
This paper develops a methodology to identify asset price response to news in the framework of Campbell-Shiller log-linear present-value equation. It shows that slow price...
Company: University of Wisconsin
Date: April 2000 |
University of Wisconsin |
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The Living Canadian Real Estate Textbook
This document serves as Canada's authoritative learning tool for commercial real estate. This document provides comprehensive information on the Canadian property rights and also explains...
Company: Canadian Institute of Public and Private Real Estate Companies
Date: August 2001 |
Canadian Institute of Public and Private Real Estate Companies |
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A New Deal for Landlords
There has been a great deal of talk about the need for "New Deal" for Canada's municipalities over the past few years. Two recently released...
Company: Canadian Institute of Public and Private Real Estate Companies
Date: December 2003 |
Canadian Institute of Public and Private Real Estate Companies |
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"Improving Real Estate Licensing & Continuing Education Standards in Alberta"
The purpose of this paper is to provide feedback to the Real Estate Council of Alberta (RECA) in two important areas: real estate licensing and...
Company: Real Estate Council of Alberta
Date: August 2003 |
Real Estate Council of Alberta |
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Residential and Nonresidential Construction
This article reviews the construction sector for the year 2002, which was stronger than expected. The value of permit-authorized construction (residential, nonresidential and additions, alterations...
Company: State of Utah
Date: December 2002 |
State of Utah |
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Don't Touch That Phone!: A Hotelier's Competitive Strategy for Telecommunications Revenue
Hoteliers and owners of commercial properties today face an increasingly competitive environment for the resale of telecommunication services to guests and tenants. This strategic planning...
Company: SDD
Date: July 2002 |
SDD |
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Broadband Internet Strategy for Hospitality Properties: How Property Managers Can Create a Broadband Internet Infrastructure That Serves Their Long Term Interests
Owners and managers of commercial properties are today implementing property-based network infrastructures driven by the first generation marketing and bundling decisions of broadband technology vendors....
Company: SDD
Date: July 2001 |
SDD |
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The Performance of Lodging Properties in an Investment Portfolio
Investment in lodging represents remarkable difference from real estate due to its ability to react quickly to changing economic conditions. This paper compares lodging property...
Company: Cornell University
Date: December 2001 |
Cornell University |
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Marketing Mechanism Choice and Real Estate Disposition: Search Versus Auction
This paper proposes a model of mechanism choice in the disposition of real estate assets where the following two alternatives are considered: a search market...
Company: Cornell University
Date: December 2000 |
Cornell University |
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PDC Housing Production Report - FY 2002/2003
In January 2003, the Portland Development Commission adopted a resolution to increase housing production to assist an estimated 13,550 units or households from 2001-2011. The...
Company: Portland Development Commission
Date: March 2004 |
Portland Development Commission |
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Construction and Real Estate
The results of a survey with regard to fixed costs show that there is still considerable potential for optimization. In interior fitting, in particular, the...
Company: UBS
Date: January 2005 |
UBS |
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Title Insurance in Commercial Real Estate Transactions
This paper is intended to highlight the title insurance issues that arise in connection with the sale, purchase, and financing of commercial real estate. It...
Company: First American
Date: September 2000 |
First American |
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Preserving Multifamily Rental Housing: Improving Financing Options in New Jersey
Multifamily rental buildings represent a substantial portion of New Jersey's housing stock, particularly in the state's central cities. This document outlines two financing strategies, based...
Company: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Date: February 2000 |
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia |
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Landscape Preferences and Patterns of Residential Development
This paper analyzes a model of residential location choice where people derive utility from their proximity to open space. When people have such landscape preferences...
Company: University of Toronto
Date: August 2004 |
University of Toronto |
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Residential Supply Chain in Transition: Summary of Findings From Survey of Dealers
The past several years have seen dramatic changes in the distribution of residential building products, particularly as it relates to dealers serving homebuilders, remodeling contractors...
Company: Harvard University
Date: February 2004 |
Harvard University |
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Is a House a Good Investment?
Part of the American Dream is to own your own home, whether it be a log cabin in Oregon, a farmhouse in Iowa, or a...
Company: Pomona College
Date: February 2004 |
Pomona College |
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The Intrinsic Value of Owner-Occupied Housing
Residential real estate is commonly valued by using "comps," the prices for recent transactions of comparable homes. A focus on comps can fuel speculative booms...
Company: Pomona College
Date: November 2003 |
Pomona College |
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The Valuation of Houses in an Uncertain World With Substantial Transaction Costs
This paper presents a dynamic model of residential real estate valuation that takes into account the uncertain time paths of rents and prices and the...
Company: Pomona College
Date: June 2004 |
Pomona College |
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Are Underserved Borrowers Lower Risk? New Evidence on the Performance and Pricing of FHA-Insured Mortgages
While prior analyses have provided evidence of elevated default probabilities among mortgages originated to lower income, less credit worthy, and minority populations, those risks may...
Company: University of Southern California
Date: November 2003 |
University of Southern California |
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Housing Wealth, Financial Wealth, and Consumption: New Evidence From Micro Data
Fluctuations in the stock market and in house values over the course of recent years have led to renewed economic policy debate as regards the...
Company: University of Southern California
Date: December 2003 |
University of Southern California |
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Mobility, Residential Location, and the American Dream: The Intra-Metropolitan Geography of Minority Homeownership - Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington D.C.
This paper explicates the intra-metropolitan geography of minority homeownership. In so doing, the analysis applies individual level Census data from the Washington D.C., Chicago, and...
Company: University of Southern California
Date: December 2003 |
University of Southern California |
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Leaving Gateway Metropolitan Areas: Immigrants and the Housing Market
The empirical approach in this paper is to estimate models of housing tenure choice on a sample of recent movers. Immigration has long been a...
Company: University of Southern California
Date: August 2004 |
University of Southern California |
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Homeownership in the 1980s and 1990s: Aggregate Trends and Racial Gaps
Housing policy under the Clinton and Bush Administrations has sought to boost homeownership while also narrowing racial gaps in owner-occupancy rates. Against that backdrop, homeownership...
Company: University of Southern California
Date: September 2004 |
University of Southern California |
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An Examination of the Impact of Rent Control on Mobile Home Prices in California
This study examines the impact of rent control of mobile home parks in seven counties of California between 1983 and 2003. Sales of mobile homes...
Company: University of Southern California
Date: November 2004 |
University of Southern California |
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Revisiting the Past: Revision in Repeat Sales and Hedonic Indexes of House Prices
This paper examines index revision in measuring the prices for owner-occupied housing. It considers the context of equity insurance and the settlement of futures contracts....
Company: University of Southern California
Date: August 2004 |
University of Southern California |
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Are Measured School Effects Just Sorting? Causality and Correlation in the National Education Longitudinal Survey
Youths who share a school and neighborhood often have similar academic achievement, but some studies find all or most of this apparent effect is due...
Company: University of Southern California
Date: January 2003 |
University of Southern California |
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Immigration and Sprawl: Race/Ethnicity, Immigrant Status, and Residential Mobility in Household Location Choice
Urban sprawl, as one of the most avidly discussed urban issues in both policy debate and academic research, has significant implications for urban land resources,...
Company: University of Southern California
Date: February 2003 |
University of Southern California |
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Settlement Patterns in the U.S. and Canada: Similarities and Differences - Policies or Preferences?
Smart Growth advocates in the U.S. and elsewhere worry about urban sprawl and typically advocate new controls on urban growth, including tougher land use planning...
Company: University of Southern California
Date: October 2003 |
University of Southern California |
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Homeownership, Race, and the American Dream
In recent years, much of U.S. federal housing policy has focused on two complimentary goals: to increase U.S. homeownership rates while also narrowing enormous and...
Company: University of Southern California
Date: December 2003 |
University of Southern California |
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Pathways to Homeownership: An Analysis of the Residential and Homeownership Choices of Black Households in Los Angeles
This research applies individual level Census data from the Los Angeles area to explicitly model the residential location and tenure choice decisions of African-American households....
Company: University of Southern California
Date: September 2001 |
University of Southern California |
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Heterogeneity in Asian American Homeownership: The Impact of Household Endowments and Immigrant Status
This paper examines the heterogeneity that exists across Asian groups in the United States. It finds that there are important differences across geographic area, across...
Company: University of Southern California
Date: May 2002 |
University of Southern California |
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Tenure Choice With Sample Selection: A Note on the Differences Among Alternative Samples
Most tenure choice models using cross sectional data have used either a sample of movers or a sample comprising all households. There are problems with...
Company: University of Southern California
Date: February 2000 |
University of Southern California |
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Investment Returns and Price Discovery in the Market for Owner-Occupied Housing
This paper examines the dynamics of owner-occupied housing prices both at the level of the individual dwelling and in aggregate. Using a unique data set,...
Company: University of Southern California
Date: October 2000 |
University of Southern California |
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Four Centuries of Location Value: Implications for Real Estate Capital Gain in Central Places
This paper constructs a 347-year index of location value for the period 1628-1974 for a major section of a big city. This index is used...
Company: University of Cincinnati
Date: March 2002 |
University of Cincinnati |
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Real Estate Opportunity Funds: Past Fund Performance as an Indicator of Subsequent Fund Performance
Real estate opportunity funds are one of the fastest growing segments of the real estate investment industry. The real estate equivalent of the private equity...
Company: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: September 2004 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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Dispersed Employment, Commuting, and Mixed Land-Use in Modern Cities
This paper has two objectives. The first is to review a range of empirical evidence that suggests this vision of urban form is largely incorrect....
Company: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: February 2002 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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Ski Resort Real Estate Markets: Why Not to Invest
This paper examines the behavior of ski resort property in a major New England market over the last 25 years. A property price series is...
Company: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: November 2000 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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Forces Changing Real Estate for at Least a Little While: Market Structure and Growth Prospects of the Conduit-CMBS Market
The commercial mortgage-backed security (CMBS) is one of the great financial success stories of the 1990's. Combining features of two other very successful financial innovations...
Company: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: February 2000 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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Expert Judgment in the Processes of Commercial Property Market Forecasting
This paper examines the ways in which human (subjective) judgment impacts on the process of real estate market forecast production and the consequent effects on...
Company: University of Reading
Date: June 2004 |
University of Reading |
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