Estimating Real Estate Price Movements for High Frequency Tradable Indexes in a Scarce Data Environment
37 Pages Posted: 9 Jan 2009 Last revised: 7 Apr 2010
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Estimating Real Estate Price Movements for High Frequency Tradable Indexes in a Scarce Data Environment
Estimating Real Estate Price Movements for High Frequency Tradable Indexes in a Scarce Data Environment
Date Written: February 2010
Abstract
Indexes of commercial property prices face much scarcer transactions data than housing indexes, yet the advent of tradable derivatives on commercial property places a premium on both high frequency and accuracy of such indexes. The dilemma is that with scarce data a low-frequency return index (such as annual) is necessary to accumulate enough sales data in each period. This paper presents an approach to address this problem using a two-stage procedure with frequency conversion, by first estimating lower-frequency indexes staggered in time, and then applying a generalized inverse estimator to convert from lower to higher frequency return series. The two-stage procedure can improve the accuracy of high-frequency indexes in scarce data environments. In this paper the method is demonstrated and analyzed by application to empirical commercial property repeat-sales data.
Keywords: Real Estate price Indexes, Frequency-Conversion, Transactions-Based-Index Estimation, Derivatives
JEL Classification: C13, C43
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