Real Estate Cycle in the Czech Republic and Office Capitalization Rate Forecasts
Real Estate Cycle in the Czech Republic and Office Capitalization Rate Forecasts
rigorous thesis (DEFENDED)
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Author
Advisor
Referee
Horváth, Roman
Faculty / Institute
Faculty of Social Sciences
Discipline
Economics
Department
Institute of Economic Studies
Date of defense
19. 10. 2011
Publisher
Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních vědLanguage
English
Grade
Pass
Keywords (Czech)
tržní kapitalizace, kancelářské nemovitosti, předpovědní modely, makroekonomické a finanční fundamentyKeywords (English)
capitalization rate, office yield, real estate, forecasting models, macroeconomic and financial fundamentalsThe presented study describes commercial real estate markets with focus on office sector. We identify the capitalization rate (investment yield) as one of the fundamental variables in the commercial property valuation. Based on historical office investment yield observations and various econometric models we predict the office capitalization rate development in the Czech Republic. We use data of the United Kingdom, Ireland and Sweden to identify common yield trend especially with respect to their real estate crises dating in 1990s which indicate similar features to real estate crisis in 2008-2010. As explanatory variables for the econometric models (ARIMA, OLS, VAR) we use financial and macroeconomic variables. We use the OLS models to identify optimal set of explanatory variables, which we than apply in VAR models. On dataset of the comparable countries we compare the fitness of the VAR and ARIMA models, the best variants are used for prediction of the Czech office yield. We then improve our forecasts by implementing exogenous forecasts of macroeconomic variables used in the models. Majority of our predictions forecast a slow decrease of the prime office capitalization factor in next three years (2011 - 2014) in magnitude of 0.25% - 1.25% (to 6.25% - 5.75%).
The presented study describes commercial real estate markets with focus on office sector. We identify the capitalization rate (investment yield) as one of the fundamental variables in the commercial property valuation. Based on historical office investment yield observations and various econometric models we predict the office capitalization rate development in the Czech Republic. We use data of the United Kingdom, Ireland and Sweden to identify common yield trend especially with respect to their real estate crises dating in 1990s which indicate similar features to real estate crisis in 2008-2010. As explanatory variables for the econometric models (ARIMA, OLS, VAR) we use financial and macroeconomic variables. We use the OLS models to identify optimal set of explanatory variables, which we than apply in VAR models. On dataset of the comparable countries we compare the fitness of the VAR and ARIMA models, the best variants are used for prediction of the Czech office yield. We then improve our forecasts by implementing exogenous forecasts of macroeconomic variables used in the models. Majority of our predictions forecast a slow decrease of the prime office capitalization factor in next three years (2011 - 2014) in magnitude of 0.25% - 1.25% (to 6.25% - 5.75%).