Real Estate War in Cyberspace: An Emerging Electronic Market?

Analysis the Impact of Tax on Transfer of Real Estate and Housing on the Reduction of Housing Market Volatility in Urban Areas of Iran

Land and urban housing have been affected by speculative demands due to heterogeneity, immobility and profitability, and have led to an increase of land and housing prices. The government, with the aim of controlling the housing market volatility, can play an important role in preventing the diversion of capital from the real sector to the housing sector and its multiple shocks. In this researc...

Mining Public Opinions on Real Estate Prosperity from Internet: a Beijing Study

Real estate market prosperity is crucial to a nation’s economy as well as people’s livelihood, especially for the emerging economy. In China, the real estate market has been overheated since the reform of urban housing system in 1998. Due to the price diversity and region variations, the traditional real estate indicators released by the government became insufficient in explaining local real e...

The contribution of a mature real estate market to urban regeneration: What are the prerequisites?

Market Efficiency in the Emerging Securitized Real Estate Markets

This paper tests the random walk hypothesis and market efficiency for twelve emerging as well as for four developed securitized real estate markets from 1992 to 2009. Random walk properties of equity prices influence return dynamics, and market efficiency is often considered an essential criterion in the assessment of the functionality of markets and the asset pricing process, which is of signi...

Risk Management in Real Estate Electronic Transactions

In the recent past, both consumers and real estate service providers have increasingly used the Internet to improve trading effectiveness and efficiency in the real estate market. Although Internet usage has reached phenomenal levels, the pure real estate electronic transaction, where the process is totally completed through the Internet, is still very much in its infancy. This indicates that s...