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Heterogeneous Investor Sentiment and Institutional Real Estate Investments

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  • Julia Freybote
  • Philip A. Seagraves

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Commercial real estate investors differ in their sentiment due to factors such as market expertise, investment strategies and expectations about future market conditions. Focusing on the office market, we investigate whether investors with a multiasset investment focus such as pension funds or insurance companies rely on the sentiment of specialized real estate investors such as public REITs or private developers/owners as source of information in their investment decision†making. Using disaggregated sentiment measures and vector autoregression (VAR) we find evidence that changes in REIT and private real estate investor sentiment lead to changes in institutional investor sentiment in the suburban office and office REIT market. Our findings suggest that institutional investors rely on the sentiment of specialized real estate investors to make real estate investment decisions. Our study contributes to the existing literature on sentiment in commercial real estate markets by emphasizing the heterogeneity of investor sentiment and introducing a disaggregated sentiment measure. We also contribute to the institutional herding literature.

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  • Julia Freybote & Philip A. Seagraves, 2017. "Heterogeneous Investor Sentiment and Institutional Real Estate Investments," Real Estate Economics, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, vol. 45(1), pages 154-176, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:reesec:v:45:y:2017:i:1:p:154-176
    DOI: 10.1111/1540-6229.12132
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    9. Qiulin Ke & Karen Sieracki, 2018. "Exploring sentiment-driven trading behavior of different types of investors in London office market," ERES eres2018_112, European Real Estate Society (ERES).

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