In the real estate business, it is a common understanding that the value and potential of a property are fundamentally determined by its location. For real estate agencies, the real estate system can be used as an aid to selling and managing properties, for the buyers, the system can function as consultant in their decision making in purchasing properties. This emphasizes the significations of ...

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 two real estate markets were integrated. By constraining the r...

The current practice for determining market price of a real estate often relies on selecting a list of comparable sales and does not employ modern statistical techniques. The example in this paper demonstrates how one could use statistical modeling in estimating the market value of a real estate. This paper illustrates a real estate market analysis via a statistical modeling case study which al...

Real estate investment decision-making is an important part of project development, which directly affects the risk level of real estate project development and the return on investment size. Real estate investment has features of high risks and high uncertainty. The failure of real estate investment will not only affect the enterprises’ survival and development, and may even affect the entire ...

Real estate development is critical to healthy economic growth and regional development. Using real-estate data in Guangzhou, China from the 1970s to 2015, we examined the spatiotemporal agglomeration and evolution of Guangzhou’s real estate industry with spatial and spatiotemporal techniques. This study shows that real estate businesses were initially agglomerated in the city center with socio...

Information and communications technologies (ICT) are becoming pervasive in the residential real estate industry and affecting the work lives of real estate agents. Drawing on data from a regional study of the residential real-estate industry in the United States, we focus on the disintermediation or, more accurately, the re-intermediation of real estate agents in the sales process. We examine ...

Banking and real estate have always had an uneasy relationship. It was not until early this century that national banks were even permitted to extend loans collateralized by real estate. To this day, national banks, bank holding companies, and many state-chartered banks are prohibited from owning real estate directly, except when obtained through foreclosure or if used for bank premises.~ In ad...

We re-examine whether the broad support for repeal of the estate tax is a result of citizen ignorance. We find that increasing information about the estate tax or politics in general has very different effects on Republicans and Democrats. While high and lowinformation Republicans support estate tax repeal, Democratic support is higher among those who know less. However, most highly-informed pe...

Noise presents health and social problems in industrial operations, and is mainly related to machinery used in the industries. The present study was conducted in the different utilities industries in Jeddah Industrial Estate (JIE), in order to assess the magnitude of the problem of industrial noise exposure there in an endeavor to propose remedial controls to the problem. Noise was measured in ...