Green Buildings of Silver Street
Not ideal from a building maintenance point of view… but beautiful. A gutter has been leaking for years and created a truly ‘green’ building on Silver Street. Click for video.
Not ideal from a building maintenance point of view… but beautiful. A gutter has been leaking for years and created a truly ‘green’ building on Silver Street. Click for video.
The Department of Land Economy is searching for one more Assistant Professor in Real Estate Finance. Here my thoughts on why this might be an attractive opportunity for an early-career real estate scholar.
New paper by Matthijs Korevaar explores the links between financial markets and real estate in 18th-century Amsterdam
An update from the garden: Tulips tulips tulips
Personal news: I have been elected Grosvenor Professor of Real Estate Finance at the University of Cambridge
Etchings by Franz Xaver Rektorzik, printed by August Potuczek
How do ML-models arrive at their predictions? Do they do what we hope they do—or are corners cut?. New paper out at Real Estate Economics
Staying in touch: A sporadic email with updates
Paper out: This paper develops a new approach to estimate the value of urban land and indirectly tests land residual assumptions. Bonus: Value surfaces estimated with a spatial ANN.
This paper studies urban rental prices for half a millennium (1500–2020) and seven cities: Amsterdam, Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, Ghent, London, and Paris. Based on a dataset of 436,000 rental cash flow observations, we build continuous annual indices of housing rents, which we employ to study the long-term developments in rental cash flows, as well as their predictability. We find that real rent growth has been limited, but with large differences across cities: average annual growth rates range between 0.12 percent for the Belgian cities to 0.30 percent for Paris. At the market level, we show that sluggish supply adjustment implies that past population growth negatively predicts current rental growth. At the individual asset level, we find that past excess rental growth rates are predictive of future rent revisions, and that increasing steepness of the term structure of contract rents is predictive for future rent levels.