Abstract
Since the mid-1990s, investment volume and prices in the European real estate markets have grown significantly. The industry’s positive returns and low correlation with equity and fixed income investment, combined with greater market accessibility, have encouraged many investors to increase the weight of real estate assets in their investment portfolios, in an attempt to strike a more comfortable balance between risk and return.
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Suárez, J.L. (2009). Direct Property Investment. In: European Real Estate Markets. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230582460_4
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