Expected returns and expected erowth in rents of commercial real estate
- Plazzi, Alberto Istituto di finanza (IFin), Facoltà di scienze economiche, Università della
- Svizzera italiana, Svizzera
- Torous, Walter Rady School at UCSD, Pepper Canyon Hall, La Jolla, United States
- Valkanov, Rossen Rady School at UCSD, Pepper Canyon Hall, La Jolla, United States
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2010
Published in:
- Review of financial studies. - Yale School of Management. - 2010, vol. 23, no. 9, p. 3469-3519
English
Commercial real estate expected returns and expected rent growth rates are time-varying. Relying on transactions data from a cross-section of U.S. metropolitan areas, we find that up to 30% of the variability of realized returns to commercial real estate can be accounted for by expected return variability, while expected rent growth rate variability explains up to 45% of the variability of realized rent growth rates. The cap rate - that is, the rent-price ratio in commercial real estate - captures fluctuations in expected returns for apartments, retail properties, as well as industrial properties. For offices, by contrast, cap rates do not forecast (in-sample) returns even though expected returns on o±ces are also time-varying. As implied by the present value relation, cap rates marginally forecast o±ce rent growth but not rent growth of apartments, retail properties, and industrial properties. We link these differences in in-sample predictability to differences in the stochastic properties of the underlying commercial real estate data- generating processes. Also, rent growth predictability is observed mostly in locations characterized by higher population density and stringent land use restrictions. The opposite is true for return predictability. The dynamic portfolio implications of time-varying commercial real estate returns are also explored in the context of a portfolio manager investing in the aggregate stock market, Treasury bills, as well as commercial real estate.
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- English
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- Economics
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- RERO DOC 22543
- DOI 10.1093/rfs/hhq069
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- https://susi.usi.ch/usi/documents/318342
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