Journal of European Real Estate Research: Volume 10 Issue 3

Guest editorial

Paloma Taltavull de La Paz, Stanley McGreal

International perspectives on homeownership and home equity extraction by senior households

Donald Haurin, Stephanie Moulton

This paper links the literatures on the life-cycle hypothesis, homeownership, home equity and pensions. Empirically, the focus is on the EU and USA. The paper aims to explore the…

The effect of school performance on property values: a literature review and a case study

Larisa Fleishman, Nir Fogel, Israela Fridman, Yaffa Shif

This paper, a pioneering one in the Israeli context, aims to augment the research literature on school quality and housing prices by examining the effect of primary-school…

Long-term regional house prices cycles. A city-based index for Italy

Laura Gabrielli, Paloma Taltavull de La Paz, Armando Ortuño Padilla

This paper aims to present the dynamics of housing prices in Italian cities based on unpublished data with regional details from the late 1960s, half-yearly base, for all main…

Amsterdam house price ripple effects in The Netherlands

Alfred Larm Teye, Michel Knoppel, Jan de Haan, Marja G. Elsinga

This paper aims to examine the existence of the ripple effect from Amsterdam to the housing markets of other regions in The Netherlands. It identifies which regional housing…

Demand for housing choices in the north of France: a discrete approach

Véronique Flambard

This research aims to analyse the housing demand in northern France with respect to socio-demographic variables and the distance between the residence and the workplace.

Can sector-specific REIT strategies outperform a diversified benchmark?

Alex Moss, Andrew Clare, Stephen Thomas, James Seaton

The authors in this paper aim to investigate the performance of different portfolios of REITs which specialise by property type compared to the performance of a diversified…

Corporate real estate, capital structure and value creation

Maria-Teresa Bosch-Badia, Joan Montllor-Serrats, Anna-Maria Panosa-Gubau, Maria-Antonia Tarrazon-Rodon

This paper aims to analyse the corporate rent-vs-buy decision on real estate through the trade-off theory and default option in the framework of a corporation that aims to…