Essays on the Impact of Sentiment on Real Estate Investments

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Focusing on the interplay between investor and consumer sentiment, the book delves into how these factors influence real estate decisions. It employs a GARCH-Model to analyze the impact of investor sentiment on the returns of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) during the financial crisis, while also exploring the effects on Non-REITs. Additionally, the author examines how consumer sentiment affects household decisions to purchase homes in the US, utilizing a dataset of 385 monthly observations spanning from 1978 to 2010.