TY - JOUR A1 - Maurer, Raimond A1 - Reiner, Frank A1 - Sebastian, Steffen T1 - Characteristics of German Real Estate Return Distributions: Empirical Evidence from Germany and Comparison to the U.S. and U.K T2 - Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management N2 - In contrast to the United States and the United Kingdom, little empirical work exists about the distributional characteristics of appraisalbased real estate returns outside these countries. The purpose of this study is to fill this gap by focusing on Germany. In line with other studies, this paper offers an extensive investigation into the distribution of German real estate returns and compares them with and U.S. and U.K. data in the same period. Furthermore, the comovements with bonds and stocks are also examined. In the core, the distributional characteristics for German real estate are comparable to that for the U.S. and U.K. Y1 - 2004 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3675 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-17865 SN - 1083-5547 VL - 10 IS - 1 SP - 59 EP - 76 ER -