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Another Look at the Relative Importance of Sectors and Regions in Determining Property Returns

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  • Mark Andrew

    (Department of Economics, University of Reading School of Business)

  • Steven Devaney

    (Department of Real Estate & Planning, University of Reading Business School)

  • Stephen Lee

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This paper re-examines the relative importance of sector and regional effects in determining property returns. Using the largest property database currently available in the world, we decompose the returns on individual properties into a national effect, common to all properties, and a number of sector and regional factors. However, unlike previous studies, we categorise the individual property data into an ever-increasing number of property-types and regions, from a simple 3-by-3 classification, up to a 10 by 63 sector/region classification. In this way we can test the impact that a finer classification has on the sector and regional effects. We confirm the earlier findings of previous studies that sector-specific effects have a greater influence on property returns than regional effects. We also find that the impact of the sector effect is robust across different classifications of sectors and regions. Nonetheless, the more refined sector and regional partitions uncover some interesting sector and regional differences, which were obscured in previous studies. All of which has important implications for property portfolio construction and analysis.

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  • Mark Andrew & Steven Devaney & Stephen Lee, 2003. "Another Look at the Relative Importance of Sectors and Regions in Determining Property Returns," Real Estate & Planning Working Papers rep-wp2003-14, Henley Business School, University of Reading.
    • Handle: RePEc:rdg:repxwp:rep-wp2003-14
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    1. Peter Byrne & Stephen Lee, 2006. "Geographical Concentration in the Institutional Market for Office Property in England and Wales," Real Estate & Planning Working Papers rep-wp2006-07, Henley Business School, University of Reading.
    2. Peter Byrne & Stephen Lee, 2007. "Spatial Concentration in Institutional Investment in the UK: Some comparisons between the Retail and Office Sectors," Real Estate & Planning Working Papers rep-wp2007-01, Henley Business School, University of Reading.
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    5. Stephen Lee & Steven Devaney, 2006. "The Changing Importance of Sector and Regional Factors in Real Estate Returns: 1987--2002," Journal of Property Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(1), pages 55-69, November.

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