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Efficient Real Estate Markets: Paradox or Paradigm? †
Author(s) -
Gau George W.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
real estate economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.064
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1540-6229
pISSN - 1080-8620
DOI - 10.1111/1540-6229.00415
Subject(s) - real estate , economics , cost approach , financial economics , capitalization rate , real estate investment trust , microeconomics , positive economics , finance
This paper examines the question of whether an efficient markets paradigm should be adopted for the modelling and testing of real estate markets. It considers the perceived imperfections commonly suggested for these markets and reviews the existing weak form and semistrong form tests of real estate efficiency. Finally, it examines some of the likely implications for real estate research and practice resulting from the acceptance of such a paradigm.