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Homogeneous Commercial Property Market Groupings and Portfolio Construction in the United Kingdom

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  • Foort Hamelink

    (Department of Finance, Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands)

  • Martin Hoesli

    (HEC, Université de Genève, Uni-Mail, 102 boulevard Carl-Vogt, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland; Department of Accountancy, University of Aberdeen, Edward Wright Building, Dunbar Street, Aberdeen AB24 3QY, Scotland)

  • Colin Lizieri

    (Department of Land Management and Development, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AW, England)

  • Bryan D MacGregor

    (Centre for Property Research, Department of Land Economy, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's, King's College, Old Aberdeen AB24 3UF, Scotland)

Abstract

Property portfolios are traditionally constructed by diversifying across geographical areas, property types, or a combination of both. In the United Kingdom it is normal practice to use regions rather than towns or local market areas as the geographical divisions. The authors use cluster analysis to construct homogeneous groups from 157 UK local markets, by means of commercial property returns. The results show strong property-type dimensions and only very broad geographical dimensions in the clusters. These clusters are found, in general, to have temporal stability with changes in cluster membership being explained by the changing economic geography of the United Kingdom. The cluster-derived groupings are used to derive efficient investment frontiers and are compared with frontiers based on conventional heuristic groupings. It is shown that strategies based on parsimonious cluster-based groupings, appropriate for smaller investors, generate results that are comparable with those of conventional groupings and capture the main drivers of property performance.

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  • Foort Hamelink & Martin Hoesli & Colin Lizieri & Bryan D MacGregor, 2000. "Homogeneous Commercial Property Market Groupings and Portfolio Construction in the United Kingdom," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 32(2), pages 323-344, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:32:y:2000:i:2:p:323-344
    DOI: 10.1068/a31146
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