As the result of the real estate bubble on 1990, the domestic real estate market is constantly sluggish which makes an impact on the development of relevant industries in Taiwan. In recent 15 years, the housing industry has been deeply impacted in particular. In order to stimulate the recovery of the real estate market and the development of economy, Taiwan government promoted many related projects in order to boost the prosperity of Real Estate industry. Such as ¡§Improving Real Estate Market Polices¡¨, ¡§Two-year Reduction Policy of Land Value Increment Tax to Half¡¨, release limitations on foreign ownership of Taiwan property ¡§Real Estate Appraisal regulation¡§¡§Certified Real Estate Registration Agent Code¡¨ Legislation of real estate management¡¨. Meanwhile ¡§The Conference of National Economy and development¡¨, ¡§A series of strengthen economy quality¡¨ and ¡§Economic Development Advisory Conference¡¨ have been convoked and recommended ¡§real estate securitization¡¨ might be the workable way. In 23rd July 2003 the Legislative Yuan passed the Real Estate Securitization Statute and Enforcement Rules of the Real Estate Securitization Statute. The purpose of the enactment was through securitization stimulating the real estate market and effectively developing real estate. Real estate securitization, by definition, the financing mechanism alters the investor¡¦s investment, from a direct investment to a securitized investment. The trust company issues securities over a portfolio of properties to raise fund from the capital market other than mortgage loans from banking system. The implementation of the real estate securitization can combine the real estate market with the capital market and effectively facilitate the development of real estate resources. These transactions have grown increasingly popular over time, providing the long-awaited fueling of the domestic real estate market. Therefore not only the real estate industry enables to utilize the funds raised from the general public, but also improves distressed government finance . By referring to the experience of the US and Japan , Taiwan Real Estate Securitization Statute was constructed by two kinds of Real Estate Securitization, the investment trust of real estate (REITs) and real estate assets trust (REATs). The Act being adopted from the Real Estate Investment Trust system of USA; and the Real Estate Asset Trust system of Japan. The real estate securitization has been brought into practice for over 3 years since implementation of Taiwan¡¦s Real Estate Securitization Statute. Till the end 2006, Financial Supervisory Commission ratified 15 cases of real estate securitized products, over NTD 69,694 million of real estate securities was issued. Among them, 7 cases regard REITs as the structure issues NTD 51,800 million which about 75% of total market share. The purpose of this study is to discuss the Development of Real Estate Investment Trust in Taiwan by analyzing and referring the current situations and relevant legal mechanisms in US and in Japan. Through real case study probes actual operation of REITs also gives suggestions for their prospective development and impacts. In addition, the research provides recommendation and valuable information to the current market and insights about the future development of Taiwan¡¦s REIT market.

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The aim of this thesis is to examine performance and relationship between the US and Asian REITs indices. We find two-year (2005/3/10~2007/3/12) return of T-REITs is 15.87%, which is much lower than the return of US, Japan and Singapore. However, T-REITs has the lowest risk in selected sample countries because the lowest VaRs is found. We estimate one-day horizon holding periods VaRs and find T-REITs¡¦ performance is better than other country by the Sharpe Ratio of VaRs. The Granger causality approach indicates some lead-lag relationships between these REITs. The NAREIT EQUITY index is leading the Hong-Kong and Singapore REITs indices; Singapore REITs index is leading the J-REITs index; J-REITs index is leading the NAREIT EQUITY index. However, Causality tests show no significant lead-lag relationships between Taiwan REITs market and other REITs markets.

The thesis is aimed to describe and approach the REIT practice that is, especially in the U. S. very enhanced. In the first part, general parameters of real estate investment trusts are introduced and understated in connection with the depiction of the advantages and disadvantages of this issue. In chronological sequence, the development and progress of the U. S. real estate market is approached. The thesis further undertakes the current subject of the global financial crisis with a special focus on the REIT involvement and the potential application of the new EU directive - AIFMD (Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive). This directive is expected to harmonize the joint investments. The objective of the thesis is a detailed description and specification of REIT in selected developed countries (U. S., Western Europe, and Australia) followed by a comparation of these regimes and an analysis of the considerable real estate investment companies in the Czech Republic including the financial analysis of the public joint-stock companies. A development of Czech real estate market during the mortgage crisis is also depicted and a market forecast is prognosed. The thesis concludes potential restraints of the REIT legal introduction in the Czech Republic as this corporative type has not been lawfully validated there.

Bibliographic Record JÍLEK, Jiří. European Real Estate Investment Trusts: Analyzing Correlation with a DCC- GARCH Model. Prague, 2012. 50 p. Master thesis (Mgr.) Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies. Supervisor: Tomáš Jandík MA MSc MRICS. Abstract The main goal of this thesis is to study the interdependencies between returns of European real estate investment trusts (REITs) and other investment asset classes such as European equities, government bonds and commodities. The thesis is divided into two parts: in the first part, we describe the necessary background that led to the emergence of first REIT structures and also provide an overview of the European REITs market. In the second part, we apply the Dynamic Conditional Correlation GARCH (DCC-GARCH) model to examine correlations between the above mentioned asset classes. The general understanding of real estate is that it provides diversification benefits to a diversified portfolio. However, our results suggest that returns of European REITs and stocks show a relatively high correlation and more importantly, the correlation increases in time. These findings have significant implications for investors and portfolio managers who seek protection for their portfolios in time of market downturns. Our results...

This dissertation is structured as three essays on real estate investment trusts and financial markets. It addresses the financial performance and systematic risk of different REIT types, the information content of REIT bankruptcies, and the effect of recent tax law changes on the REIT industry.

A estabilidade econômica e o crescimento do mercado de capitais ocorridos no Brasil nas últimas duas décadas, fez com que alguns produtos de investimentos tivessem um crescimento no volume de operações e nos montantes transacionados. Um destes produtos com grande crescimento são os Fundos de Investimento Imobiliários (FIIs), produto que tem como foco o investimento, direto ou indireto, em ativos financeiros ligados a imóveis. No Brasil a criação deste produto foi muito influenciada pela necessidade de captação de recursos por parte do incorporador ou proprietário do ativo, se tornando também, ao se analisar pela perspectiva do investidor, uma opção de diversificação e uma possibilidade para o pequeno investidor investir em imóveis, com a perspectiva de recebimento de renda mensal sem tributação. Apesar de ser um investimento com características próprias, pesquisas internacionais mostram que a valorização das cotas dos FIIs sofre por vezes influência não só do resultado operacional dos fundos, mas também de fatores sistêmicos, entre eles a variação das bolsas de valores e a variação dos juros de mercado. Seguindo a linha de pesquisas internacionais, esta pesquisa teve como objetivo analisar, através da aplicação de regressões por mínimos quadrados ordinários, a influência do mercado de ações, dos juros de mercado e de fatores específicos a um segmento, na rentabilidade dos FIIs, sendo utilizada como amostra os fundos com negociação de suas cotas na BM&FBovespa. Em uma primeira análise, carteiras foram criadas para que fosse possível analisar o grau de influência dos fatores bolsa de valores e juros de mercado na rentabilidade destas carteiras. Na análise final, especificamente para os FIIs que investem em Shopping Center, buscou-se estudar qual a influência de fatores específicos deste mercado, no caso a variação do preço do aluguel e das vendas do varejo, sobre a rentabilidade das cotas de uma carteira criada somente com FIIs que investem neste tipo de ativo. Os resultados desta pesquisa sugerem uma influência significante da variação da bolsa de valores na análise de uma carteira geral de FIIs, porém, quando são analisadas carteiras compostas por FIIs com características específicas, esta influência diminui. No que se refere aos juros de mercado, a sua influência só se mostra significativa quando na análise de uma carteira geral de FIIs e, especificamente, em um período específico da análise. Para a carteira criada com FIIs que investem em Shopping Center, as variáveis bolsa de valores, juros e variação do aluguel tiveram resultado significante, sendo este último o mais representativo. Os resultados apresentados nesta pesquisa estão em linha com os apresentados nas primeiras pesquisas internacionais, principalmente para o mercado norte-americano, quando utilizaram um pequeno período de análise em um mercado em expansão. Pesquisas futuras com um maior período de análise e com a inclusão de outras variáveis, serão importantes para identificar possíveis alterações na influência dos fatores sistêmicos na rentabilidade dos FIIs. / The economic stability and capital market growth in Brazil in the last two decades resulted, among other things, in an increase in the number of transactions and amounts for a few investment products. One of these increasingly growing products is Real Estate Investment Trust (REITs), a product focused on the direct or indirect investment in real estate market. In Brazil, although the creation of this product is more closely linked to the need to raise funds from the developer or owner of the asset, when analyzing the investor\'s perspective, this investment serves as an option of diversification and is also a chance for the small investor to invest in real estate, with the perspective of receiving a non-taxable monthly income. Despite being an investment with specific characteristics, international surveys shows that appreciation of REITs quotas are not only influenced by market-specific factors, but also by systemic factors, including variation of stock exchanges and interest rates. Following the line of international researches, this study aimed to analyze, through application of ordinary least square regressions, the influence of stock market, market interest and segment-specific factors on REITs profitability, using as sample REITs funds negotiated in BM&FBovespa. In an initial analysis, various portfolios were created to analyze the influence of the stock exchange and interest rates in their profitability. The final analysis, specifically for REITs investing in Shopping Center, studied the influence of market-specific factors, i.e., rental fee and retail sales variation, on the profitability of portfolio created only with REITs investing in this type of asset. Research results suggest a significant influence of the stock exchange return in an overall REIT portfolio analysis; however, when creating specific REIT portfolios, this influence decreases in many created portfolios. Regarding interest rates, a significant influence is only shown when analyzing an overall REIT portfolio and specifically in a period when interest rates increase and REITs profitability decrease. For the portfolio created with REITs investing in Shopping Center, the variables stock exchange, interest rate and rent variation had significant results, the latter being the most representative. The results presented in this study are aligned with those presented in the first international researches, mainly for the US market, when a small period of analysis was tested in an expanding market. Future researches, with a longer period of analysis and new variables, will be important to identify possible changes in the influence of systemic factors on the profitability of REITs.

The purpose of this master&rsquo / s thesis is to evaluate the performance of investment companies, namely Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and Closed-End Funds (CEFs) in Turkey. In this study, three different models are used to evaluate the risk adjusted performances of Turkish investment companies. These models are: 1) the single-factor CAPM / 2) the Fama-French three-factor model / and 3) the Carhart&rsquo / s four factor model. The results of this study indicate that for the sample period from January 1997 to December 2009, Turkish REITs and Turkish CEFs neither overperform nor underperform the overall market. Intercepts in almost all models are statistically significantly not different from zero, implying that both REITs and CEFs are earning their expected returns. The results are robust to different models used in this study. Among employed models, the Fama-French three-factor model is the best in explaining the returns on both REITs and CEFs. In general, coefficients of the size and the book-to-market equity risk factors are significant and positive. The explanatory power of the regressions does not improve with the Carhart&rsquo / s four-factor model, since momentum factors have statistically insignificant coefficients in all regressions. Findings of this study have an important implication for the efficiency of the Istanbul Stock Exchange. The inability of professional money managers to beat the overall market could be taken as an evidence in favor of the ISE being either semi-strong or strong form efficient. On the other hand, lack of skills on the part of Turkish fund managers might be another explanation for their inability to surpass the performance of the overall market.

This study explores the policy implications of Real estate Investment Trusts on urban restructuring and attempts to uncover if monitoring and evaluating mechanisms are needed. This issue is relevant to South Africa for competing globally and domestically for real estate investment. Furthermore it is relevant to South Africa given the potential impact of unregulated property development and the implications for the poor. The study also investigates the implications of REIT investing over all types of property types and implications for spatial policy proposals / Thesis (M.Dev.Studies)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2009

A estabilidade econômica e o crescimento do mercado de capitais ocorridos no Brasil nas últimas duas décadas, fez com que alguns produtos de investimentos tivessem um crescimento no volume de operações e nos montantes transacionados. Um destes produtos com grande crescimento são os Fundos de Investimento Imobiliários (FIIs), produto que tem como foco o investimento, direto ou indireto, em ativos financeiros ligados a imóveis. No Brasil a criação deste produto foi muito influenciada pela necessidade de captação de recursos por parte do incorporador ou proprietário do ativo, se tornando também, ao se analisar pela perspectiva do investidor, uma opção de diversificação e uma possibilidade para o pequeno investidor investir em imóveis, com a perspectiva de recebimento de renda mensal sem tributação. Apesar de ser um investimento com características próprias, pesquisas internacionais mostram que a valorização das cotas dos FIIs sofre por vezes influência não só do resultado operacional dos fundos, mas também de fatores sistêmicos, entre eles a variação das bolsas de valores e a variação dos juros de mercado. Seguindo a linha de pesquisas internacionais, esta pesquisa teve como objetivo analisar, através da aplicação de regressões por mínimos quadrados ordinários, a influência do mercado de ações, dos juros de mercado e de fatores específicos a um segmento, na rentabilidade dos FIIs, sendo utilizada como amostra os fundos com negociação de suas cotas na BM&FBovespa. Em uma primeira análise, carteiras foram criadas para que fosse possível analisar o grau de influência dos fatores bolsa de valores e juros de mercado na rentabilidade destas carteiras. Na análise final, especificamente para os FIIs que investem em Shopping Center, buscou-se estudar qual a influência de fatores específicos deste mercado, no caso a variação do preço do aluguel e das vendas do varejo, sobre a rentabilidade das cotas de uma carteira criada somente com FIIs que investem neste tipo de ativo. Os resultados desta pesquisa sugerem uma influência significante da variação da bolsa de valores na análise de uma carteira geral de FIIs, porém, quando são analisadas carteiras compostas por FIIs com características específicas, esta influência diminui. No que se refere aos juros de mercado, a sua influência só se mostra significativa quando na análise de uma carteira geral de FIIs e, especificamente, em um período específico da análise. Para a carteira criada com FIIs que investem em Shopping Center, as variáveis bolsa de valores, juros e variação do aluguel tiveram resultado significante, sendo este último o mais representativo. Os resultados apresentados nesta pesquisa estão em linha com os apresentados nas primeiras pesquisas internacionais, principalmente para o mercado norte-americano, quando utilizaram um pequeno período de análise em um mercado em expansão. Pesquisas futuras com um maior período de análise e com a inclusão de outras variáveis, serão importantes para identificar possíveis alterações na influência dos fatores sistêmicos na rentabilidade dos FIIs. / The economic stability and capital market growth in Brazil in the last two decades resulted, among other things, in an increase in the number of transactions and amounts for a few investment products. One of these increasingly growing products is Real Estate Investment Trust (REITs), a product focused on the direct or indirect investment in real estate market. In Brazil, although the creation of this product is more closely linked to the need to raise funds from the developer or owner of the asset, when analyzing the investor\'s perspective, this investment serves as an option of diversification and is also a chance for the small investor to invest in real estate, with the perspective of receiving a non-taxable monthly income. Despite being an investment with specific characteristics, international surveys shows that appreciation of REITs quotas are not only influenced by market-specific factors, but also by systemic factors, including variation of stock exchanges and interest rates. Following the line of international researches, this study aimed to analyze, through application of ordinary least square regressions, the influence of stock market, market interest and segment-specific factors on REITs profitability, using as sample REITs funds negotiated in BM&FBovespa. In an initial analysis, various portfolios were created to analyze the influence of the stock exchange and interest rates in their profitability. The final analysis, specifically for REITs investing in Shopping Center, studied the influence of market-specific factors, i.e., rental fee and retail sales variation, on the profitability of portfolio created only with REITs investing in this type of asset. Research results suggest a significant influence of the stock exchange return in an overall REIT portfolio analysis; however, when creating specific REIT portfolios, this influence decreases in many created portfolios. Regarding interest rates, a significant influence is only shown when analyzing an overall REIT portfolio and specifically in a period when interest rates increase and REITs profitability decrease. For the portfolio created with REITs investing in Shopping Center, the variables stock exchange, interest rate and rent variation had significant results, the latter being the most representative. The results presented in this study are aligned with those presented in the first international researches, mainly for the US market, when a small period of analysis was tested in an expanding market. Future researches, with a longer period of analysis and new variables, will be important to identify possible changes in the influence of systemic factors on the profitability of REITs.