The Relationships between Real Estate Price and Expected Financial Asset Risk and Return: Theory and Empirical Evidence

38 Pages Posted: 1 Aug 2009 Last revised: 4 Jan 2017

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Gang-Zhi Fan

Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College

Zsuzsa R. Huszar

Corvinus University of Budapest; National University of Singapore ; Central European University

Weina Zhang

National University of Singapore (NUS) - Sustainable & Green Finance Institute (SGFIN)

Date Written: May 30, 2013

Abstract

In pricing real estate with indifference pricing approach, market incompleteness significantly distorts the conventional pricing relationships between real estate and financial asset. In this paper, we focus on the pricing implication of market comovement because comovement tends to be stronger in financial crisis when investors are especially sensitive to price declines. We find that real estate price increases with expected financial asset return but only in weak market comovement (i.e., a normal market environment) when investors enjoy diversification benefit. When market comovement is strong, real estate price strictly declines with expected financial asset return. More importantly, contrary to the conventional positive relationship, real estate price generally declines with expected financial asset risk. Even when market comovement is strong, real estate price only increases with financial asset risk when the risk is low but eventually declines with the risk when it becomes high. These nonlinear price relationships highlight the importance of asset market comovement that is usually overlooked by conventional option pricing model developed in complete market setting.

Keywords: Comovement, Indifference Pricing, Incomplete Market, Real Estate, Risk and Return

JEL Classification: G1, G12

Suggested Citation

Fan, Gang-Zhi and Huszar, Zsuzsa R. and Huszar, Zsuzsa R. and Zhang, Weina, The Relationships between Real Estate Price and Expected Financial Asset Risk and Return: Theory and Empirical Evidence (May 30, 2013). Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 2013, 46 (4), 568-595, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1441260 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1441260

Gang-Zhi Fan

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Zsuzsa R. Huszar

Corvinus University of Budapest ( email )

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National University of Singapore (NUS) - Sustainable & Green Finance Institute (SGFIN) ( email )

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