Journal of Property Investment & Finance: Volume 36 Issue 3

The state of the (property) union

Nick French

The contribution of spatial dependency to office building price indexes: A Melbourne case study

Jerry Liang, Richard Reed, Tony Crabb

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of spatial dependency in the construction of a price index for the transactions of whole office buildings. It examines…

Measuring sentiment in real estate – a comparison study

Steffen Heinig, Anupam Nanda

In mainstream economics and finance literature, market sentiment is considered “irrational”. This leads to significant challenges in capturing the effect of sentiment on economic…

The evaluation of the Australian office market forecast accuracy

Treshani Perera, David Higgins, Woon-Weng Wong

Property market models have the overriding aim of predicting reasonable estimates of key dependent variables (demand, supply, rent, yield, vacancy and net absorption rate). These…

Thermodynamics and London office property cycles

Moshe Szweizer

The purpose of this paper is to extend the studies of commercial property cycles by providing a cross-field approach to property markets modelling.

Resolving the data debacle in commercial property: Are property practitioners in opaque markets ready for data sharing and assemblage

Daramola Thompson Olapade, Abel Olaleye

With a focus on Lagos, Nigeria property market, the purpose of this paper is to examine the willingness of property practitioners towards property data sharing and assemblage with…

Disclosure of the Laffer economic effect in property valuations to fair value

Konstantinos J. Liapis, Evangelos D. Politis

The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of income and property taxes on property assets through the application of fair value accounting and deferred income tax standards.