Real Estate Investment
A Capital Market Approach
1st Edition Gerald R.
Brown G. Matysiak 2000 736 pages 0130-20063-8 (Paperback)
Description
Periodic worldwide economic
turmoil over the last few decades has created an environment in which the degree of risk
of investment assets is now an important factor in their evaluation. Real Estate
Investment: A Capital Market Approach is the first text to examine the effect of such
changes on real estate markets, taking an in-depth look at three major areas of financial
and economic importance within the real estate profession:
ˇ The time value of money and the valuation of cash flows
ˇ Risk and return in real estate
ˇ Portfolio management
Real Estate Investment: A Capital Market Approach is aimed primarily at students on both
undergraduate and postgraduate courses in property investment or finance and MBA real
estate specialists. The text is also of interest to fund managers, property researchers
and professional investment valuers.
Key Features
A unique feature of the book
is its extensive use of empirical evidence, with ideas supported by research that has been
undertaken using real property data. In addition, the authors have explored new areas by
pushing back the boundaries of research, to encourage debate and provide a framework for
the development of new ideas.
Contents
Introduction
Part 1: The time value of money and the valuation of cash flows
1. Valuation and financial theory: bridging the gap
2. Valuing cash flows
3. Simple freehold valuation models
4. Simple leasehold models
5. Mortgages and amortisation
6. The term structure of interest rates
7. Valuations and prices
8. Investment decision techniques
Part 2: Risk and return in real estate
9. Distribution characteristics of real estate returns
10. Risk, return and diversification
11. Constructing property portfolios
12. Valuation smoothing
Part 3: Portfolio management
13. The efficiency of the property market
14. Hedging against inflation
15. Developing a portfolio strategy
16. Performance measurement
17. Quantitative techniques
18. Some unanswered questions
Index
Gerald Brown is currently
Professor of Real Estate Investment & Finance and Director of Real Estate Research at
the National University of Singapore. He has also held chairs in both the UK and New
Zealand. He was the first professor of Property at Auckland University where he
established a Real Estate Research Unit. Professor Brown has undertaken a number of
consultancy projects and has published numerous papers in international academic and
professional journals on real estate investment, risk analysis and performance
measurement. He is the author of Property Investment and the Capital Markets and is
currently joint editor of the Journal of Property Investment and Finance. He is on the
editorial board of a number of international refereed academic journals and has held a
number of visiting positions at overseas universities.
George Matysiak is Director of Property Research at Business Strategies and a Senior
Research Fellow at the City University Business School, London. He has previously held
positions as a senior research analyst at Prudential Portfolio Managers in the UK and as a
pension consultant. He has acted as consultant on real estate modelling and forecasting as
well as other investment aspects to both UK and overseas clients. He is an active
researcher and has published on valuation accuracy, property performance measurement and
portfolio investment aspects in academic and professional journals. He is a member of the
editorial boards of the Journal of Property Research and the Journal of Property
Investment and Finance.
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