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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)This thesis has a two-fold objective, namely to explore the role of cap rates in predicting the returns to commercial real estate, and to identify how cap rates can be used to improve the allocation of real estate in a ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)The mission of our thesis is to assist residential real estate investors and developers in making more systematic investment decisions when selecting Chinese cities. In particular, our thesis has three major objectives, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)Taking an analytical approach, this thesis will address how the unmet housing need of urban single-person households can be rectified by the introduction of micro-apartments. The existing housing stock has been built largely ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)This paper examines the spatial structures of commercial real estate buildings (Offices, Retails) in four Chinese cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou. In contrast to previous studies, this paper focused on ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)Followed by huge amounts of small real estate investments from wealthy Chinese individuals, large institutional investors, like well-known insurance companies and developers, also started to step into the U.S. real estate ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)China's real estate market has recently experienced a down turn after decades of exponential growth. High returns on new developments used to attract large capital inflow to the real estate market. Yet as the real estate ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)This thesis considers two interrelated sources of blight in cities: so-called "problem properties" (PP), or properties in poor physical condition where owners have stopped performing basic maintenance, and tax-delinquent ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)With 1 billion people living in the slums of cities today and no signs of a decrease in the rate of urbanization and population growth, it is obvious that new approaches to combating poverty and the global housing crisis ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)How do the various categories of operating expenses for institutional grade office buildings vary with changes in rental income and occupancy? The general consensus held is that, following the linear relationship that ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)The main objective of this study is to understand and analyze the risk adjusted returns of office building and portfolios and determine whether institutional real estate investors are allocating capital efficiently. NCREIF ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)This thesis aims to compare five systems of econometric equations to describe the Toronto office market. It compares four structural systems differing in their demand equations and a non-structural system that does not ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)The purpose of this thesis is to develop a new senior housing and service product for the aging population of the next decade. The thesis starts with an overview of the senior housing industry in its current condition in ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)At the entity level, the design of sound corporate governance mechanisms is critical for REITs that are preparing to go public. At the industry level, issues of transparency and corporate governance are consequential to ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)This paper discusses possible optimal corporate portfolio composition for Japanese trading and investment firms from stakeholders' (specifically shareholders and employees) value maximization perspective. Based on the ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)Real estate owned by non-real estate firms represent a substantial portion on most corporate balance sheets, yet they are often being overlooked with a lack of investment strategy and treated as the necessary evil for ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Over the past several decades, technological advances, the spread of free-market ideology and the shifting of the economic center of the world have resulted in an incredible transformation of the world into a globalized, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)This thesis systematically evaluates how rapid developments in the nascent crowdfunding industry, combined with recent regulatory changes, will impact the commercial real estate markets. The phenomenon of crowdfunding, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)The thesis project is a reaction to the alarming rate of building and development depreciation caused by foreign investment in the Middle Eastern city of Dubai. The intervention looks at how architects, developers, and ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)This thesis provides an empirical analysis of the determinants of foreign direct investment in commercial real estate (FDIRE) in the U.S. We examine the major factors that affect levels of FDIRE in the U.S. and foreign ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)The National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) real estate fund database was analyzed for the time period 2004-2010. Real Estate funds were grouped in to three categories: core, value-add and opportunistic. ...
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