An Equilibrium Analysis of Real Estate Leases

40 Pages Posted: 4 Apr 2003

Date Written: June 2002

Abstract

This article provides a unified equilibrium approach to valuing a wide variety of commercial real estate lease contracts. Using a game-theoretic variant of real options analysis, the underlying real estate asset market is modeled as a continuous-time Nash equilibrium in which developers make construction decisions under demand uncertainty. Then, using the economic notion that leasing simply represents the purchase of the use of the asset over a specified time frame, I use a contingent-claims approach to value many of the most common real estate leasing arrangements. In particular, the model provides closed-form solutions for the equilibrium valuation of leases with options to purchase, pre-leasing, gross and net leases, leases with cancellation options, ground leases, escalation clauses, lease concessions and sale-leasebacks.

Keywords: leasing, real estate, real options

Suggested Citation

Grenadier, Steven R., An Equilibrium Analysis of Real Estate Leases (June 2002). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=369780 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.369780

Steven R. Grenadier (Contact Author)

Stanford Graduate School of Business ( email )

Graduate School of Business
Stanford, CA 94305-5015
United States
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650-725-6152 (Fax)

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