Adjusted pure-play portfolio REIT equity index : historical performance of public and privacy real estate investment

The public real estate market was initiated by the Real Estate Investment Trust Act of 1960. Since then, investors have been concerned with the assessment of performance comparisons between publicly held assets and privately held assets. The main concern for the assessment is to reveal historically which type of ownership provided the more efficient vehicle for the investors. The National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) provides the investment performance of privately held commercial real estate, and the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trust (NAREIT) provides that of publicly held commercial real estate by REITs. However, direct comparison between the two indexes is problematic due to the different characteristics of each market and the lack of historical data for accurate assessment. The primary purpose of this study is to adjust characteristics of commercial REIT assets underlying one portfolio to match the characteristics of privately held commercial assets. Since SNL data base provides hedonic data from 1995 and CRSP & Compustat merged data base provides up to 2005 Q4, the sample period of this research is from 1995 Q1 to 2005 Q4. This quarterly assessment is conducted at the property sector (retail, apartment, office and industrial), then at the aggregate level. The main research of this thesis is to create adjusted REIT equity index that is derived from the following treatments in the thesis. Pure-Play' Portfolio Methodology will be applied to replicate the performance of four real estate property-type sectors defined by NCREIF - Implemented updated Equity to Total Asset ratio from De-leveraging REIT returns by WACC formula based on CRSP and Compustat merged data to obtain the value weights of equity, debt and total assets.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2007

Author dc:creator

• Kim, Dongwook, S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Henry O. Pollakowski.

• Architecture.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/42041

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