Real Estate Finance and Innovations
Real estate is an important asset class in the portfolios of many institutional investors. The ‘brick and mortar’ has increasingly been securitized into highly liquid real estate backed investment products that are traded in public exchanges, which include real estate investment trusts (REIT), commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS) and other real estate derivatives. The globalization and securitization in local real estate markets open up great opportunities for research in real estate finance and new innovations. IREUS research programmes cover the following areas: