Global Real Estate Markets By Darin Richard DePasquale B.S. Business Administration (1987) Boston University SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF URBAN STUDIES AND PLANNING IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT AT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SEPTEMBER 1998 @ 1998 Darin Richard DePasquale All Rights Reserved The author hereby grants to MIT permission to reproduce and to distribute publicly paper and electronic copies of this thesis document in whole or in part. .................. Signature of Author........................... Department of Urban Studieland Planning July 31, 1998 C ertified by ............................ ................. . ... ............................................. William C. Wheaton Professor of Economics Thesis Supervisor .. .... :......................................................... William C. Wheaton, Chairman, Interdisciplinary Program in Real Estate Development A ccepted by ....................................- MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OCT 2 3 1998 LIBRARIES RC: Global Real Estate Markets By Darin DePasquale SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF URBAN STUDIES AND PLANNING ON JULY 31,1998 IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT ABSTRACT: Whether in a bid to remain competitive or designed to elevate a populations standard of living, countries around the world are seeing the necessity to deregulate their financial systems and open their markets to international commerce. Real estate, traditionally a local investment to enhance individual financial wealth, has become a domestic and international vehicle for speculative institutional and private investment. This statistical study utilizes time series data on office market rents, public real estate stock indices and gross domestic product from 17 markets around the globe in an effort to shed light on national and international real estate trends. Specifically, the study searches for divergence within a domestic setting public and private real estate markets. Eights global markets consumer price index deflated office market rental rates from 1970 to 1998 are regressed against a publicly traded real estate corporation's stock or property index's performance. Next, an understanding of a local economies effect on the private real estate markets performance is sought by regressing the same time series of deflated office market rental rates against the economies gross domestic product. Finally we look for the existence of international real estate market correlation by examining trends in office market rental rates from 1970 to 1998 in all 17 global markets. Public real estate cycles in most global settings lead private market cycles in the majority of markets studied. In addition GDP appears to not affect a countries office markets performance. Analysis suggests market segmentation exists internationally for private real estate markets in most countries. . Thesis Supervisor: William C. Wheaton Title: Professor of Economics ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: This thesis would never have been completed without the unwavering support and guidance of a multitude of friends and family. First, I would like to thank Professor William Wheaton whose dead-pan remarks, extreme patience and humorous disposition kept me in sight of my goals. Thank you Professor for making this thesis a pleasure to write. Next, my SINCERE gratitude goes out to my classmates. I would name them individually but am positive that the list would include every member of the class of 1998, and most would be named numerous times!! Thank you!! James Alden, for having a computer on board and the right words at the wrong time. Tyler Jackson and Rich Lewis for helping keep life in perspective. Lynelle Suhr, Jodie Higgins, Richard Gillyard and Maria Vieira for allowing me the privilege of sharing an office desk and their immense body of knowledge in thesis preparation. And of course my Mom and Dad for making time to become closer friends. Love and Thanks All. Sincerely, Darin DePasquale Table of Contents Page Number AB STRA C T ................................................................................................... 2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.................................................................................... 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS ........................................................................................ 4 CHAPTER 1.. Introduction.................................................................................. 5 CHAPTER 2.. .Public and Private Market Divergence.................................................. 8 CHAPTER 3.. .The National Economy and its Effect on Local Office Market Rental Rates.....20 CHAPTER 4.. Global Real Estate Cycles................................................................ 49 CHAPTER 5.. Conclusion....................................................................................58 APPENDIX: DATA SOURCES.............................................................................. 60 REFERENCES............................................................................ 75 CHAPTER 1 Introduction: The investment climate of today, as always, is a world where institutional investors are seeking ways to improve the return on their capital. Whether it be through less risky ventures like bonds or more volatile investment like stocks and real estate, the competition for higher yields is immense. The result has been that portfolio managers can no longer be complacent with opportunities in their own "backyard" or area of expertise, but that they are being forced to reeducate themselves to prospects that lie farther afield. In the 1970's global inflation and a multitude of international tax structures lead foreign investors to seek safer haven for their capital. Federally insured deposits then had the effect of funneling large amounts of United States capital into real estate. The result was a greater mobility of capital across national borders as investors scrambled to secure their deposits into stable growing economies. This trend has continued, but has made it obvious that not all economies are alike. The risk and rewards are unpredictable from country to country and investment to investment. This thesis' focus is on the most lucrative business opportunities this century, real estate investment and the international trends it is following. All real estate markets are unique, they expand and contract based on their regional population growth and economic performance (Mei, Wheaton. 1998). The degree to which one market invests in a foreign market signifies their amount of capital or economic integration. The more globally integrated or the more accessible a market is to foreign capital, as economists say, the more economically efficient it should become. With efficient markets savings and investments should flow to the most productive opportunities, regardless of their location. The effects of greater global competition should improve financial systems as investors push local governments to create intelligent economic policy. Thus effective policy leading to financial deregulation will have the immediate effect of adjusting real estate rental rates until demand equals the current stock of space. In the long run the stock will adjust gradually as less efficient investment capital creates new space. The implication of this is that in an efficient marketplace capital budgeting will be based on the expectations of asset prices which should equal the value of future rents (Wheaton 1998). This is opposed, of course, to highly regulated markets where asset prices depend less on economic fundamentals and more on the expectations of other informationally limited investors. The Institute for Institutional Finance reports that net private capital flows to emerging economies in 1987 were below $10 billion, in 1991 $50 billion, 1994 $150 billion and in 1997 over $300 billion. The productivity of these investments is another story as statistical measures for or against the mobility of capital tend to be extremely crude.' Methodology fails to distinguish between liberalizing, foreign direct investment and volatile portfolio capital which often adheres to public sentiment. In addition, capital mobility is not without its costs to the receiving nation as when domestic banking systems are weak and when local governments take an active role in allocating credit to favored borrowers. Of course restrictions on capital flows will allow mismanaged financial systems to hide from competition and may also limit a domestic investor from opportunities abroad. Global real estate markets are a grouping of national public and private markets in local economies integrated across borders. Public real estate can be a nationally recognized REIT specializing in a certain market sector or it can be a smaller stock company operating in a portion of a town. The commonality is that all public real estate entities are controlled by a group of stock holders who's combined opinion sets the market price for shares in the company. Private real estate entities can have equally large asset bases as their public counterparts but their value is the sum of their asset base which is a direct reflection of the properties income potential. Thus the first question of interest to the international manager given these two investment vehicles is do public and private real estate companies value diverge? This question is answered by testing for correlation across the London, Paris, Frankfurt, Milan, New York, Sydney, Tokyo and Singapore office markets. Central business district office rental rates are used as an indicator of private market valuation. These are compared against a public real estate index or composite grouping of share prices in each of the applicable countries from 1970 to 1998. As the graphs visually indicate public real estate valuation does diverge from property market income. In keeping with this line of questioning the next step is to test if a real estate markets value is dependent on the local economies performance as indicated by local gross domestic product. GDP data is compared against office market rental rates from 1970 to 1998 for London, Brussels, Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid, Milan, Geneva, New York, Toronto, Sydney, Singapore Tokyo and Jakarta. Here the analysis points to definite linkages with an economies peak production preceding the office markets peak income by 1 to 2 years. It also suggests a high degree of international capital mobility throughout most regions examined. The final question addressed in this thesis is what are the correlations between the North American, European, and Asian office markets over the past 30 years? The data consists of office market rental rates of 17 countries in these regions and is correlated in both local currency and U.S. dollar based capital. Analysis points to definite benefits for international real estate diversification across national borders. "Capital Controversies," The Economist. May 23-29, 1998. Pg72. 7 Chapter 2 Public and Private Market Divergence: Traditionally investors wishing to diversify into the property market placed funds in private real estate assets by way of syndication pools or individual ownership vehicles. A growing international trend, however, is to invest in publicly traded real estate securities such as REITs or asset specific funds. With these two diverse frameworks with which to capitalize on real estate opportunities, investors are being required to fully understand the nature of traded real estate securities in comparison with privately controlled real estate assets. Thus a number of studies have broached the subject of correlation between public and private real estate markets. Liu, Hartzell, Grieg, and Grissom (1990) began this body of research by discovering evidence that the stock market is segmented from the private real estate market. In addition their study concludes that equity REITs are integrated with the stock market, but that the commercial real estate that underlies these equity REITs is segmented from the stock market. Their theory is that integration exists only if the risk that is priced for both real estate and stocks is the systematic risk relative to the overall market index. Which means no additional premium is associated with real estate market risk. Segmentation would exist if the only risk that is priced for real estate is systematic risk relative to the commercial real estate market. Although the results are that the public and private real estate markets are segmented it is unclear whether indirect barriers or legal constraints represent the prime catalyst for return differences which often reflects whether appraised values or imputed sales prices are used. Geltner, Rodriguez and O'Connor (1995) study the optimal portfolio of private and public real estate using the historical NCREIF's Index and the Evaluation Association's Index to represent private real estate performance and the NAREIT's Index to represent public real estate performance. Interpreting the data from 1975 to 1993 public real estate has out-performed private real estate. Public real estate appears to lead private real estate's peak valuation by 1 to 2 years, but it also appears more volatile in the short run due to "noise and "overreaction" found in publicly traded goods. The study concludes that both private and public real estate should play a significant role in an optimum real estate portfolio. Downs (1994) also supports this conclusion by summarizing a variety of causes for the divergence of public and private market valuations for real estate. Generally speaking, the quality of the operating company is incorporated in the value of the public stock. This can be greater or less than the value of the private market's valuation of the sum of all properties together. Additionally, private market valuation is dependent on the general level of current interest rates. Divergence arises when rising interest rates depress land values which in turn drives stock prices down. Interest rates produce ambiguous movements and thus diverge public and private market valuations. Ghosh, Miles and Sirmans (1996) discuss the merits of investing in REITs as opposed to other publicly traded stocks. There hypotheses is that there is less information available to investors when performance is driven by a series of local economies, each with a unique rent dynamic. Subsequently REITs differ from other stocks due to the fundamentals of lots of local markets, each with information shortcomings relative to other stocks. This thesis takes the previous literature one step further by investigating whether Asian, European, and North American publicly traded real estate companies diverge in value from the private real estate sector as represented by office market rental rates in each of these regions major markets. To test for possible divergence this study focused on public real estate index returns in London, Paris, Frankfurt, New York, Tokyo and Sydney and in the cases of Milan and Singapore where no long term index existed, a weighted composite index was formulated with public real estate companies. Next time series data on office market rental rates in each of these markets was gathered for comparative purposes. Both of these public and private indexes were then deflated using a countries specific consumer price index figures to alleviate problems with upward trending data that inflates relevant R square values. It should be noted that the public market indices are a direct reflection on the prices of the underlying assets which they control. In addition a premium may be charged for quality of management as well as market power in a specific asset class. Private market indices, however, are a reflection of the income stream which the assets are capable of producing. Thus it is logical to expect that public indices will be efficiently priced in an informationally fluid market place. Private real estate asset prices, reflecting income capabilities, will be more volatile and thus likely to lag behind their asset counterparts. With these two sets of public and private CPI deflated indexes regression analysis was run in each of these 8 markets positing contemporaneously each set of time series data. However, due to previous literature hypothesizing that public market valuations peak one year ahead of a private markets peak valuation additional regression analysis was run with the public market index leading the private market index by 1 year. For the sake of thoroughness, the public market index was also regressed lagging the private market index by 1 year in each of these countries. The R-Squared results of our regression analysis were: PUBLIC & PRIVATE R-SQUARED VALUES Table 2:1 Public and Private R- London vs Paris vs. Frankfurt vs Milan vs New York Sydney vs Tokyo vs Singapore vs FTSE 1984- SBREAL 1989-1996 1995 CDAX 1975-1996 Composite 1986-1996 vs NCREIF 1977-1998 ASAX Index 1978-1996 TOPIX 1981-1996 Composite 0.5889 0.5866 0.3397 0.4173 0.0006 0.0924 0.1860 0.0000 Public vs. Private 0.7963 0.7753 0.3391 0.6291 0.1705 0.0047 0.4984 0.0102 Public Leading Private 0.7621 0.4767 0.4843 0.6090 0.0777 0.7241 0.0232 Squared Values Private Leading Public 0.4654 1986-1996 In London, England our time series data for consumer price index deflated London office market rental rates and the similarly deflated FTSE Property Index dates run from 1984-1995. The FTSE Index consists of 14 members with 28% of its weight consisting of Land Security Plc. This company develops, manages and invests in real estate including office, retail and industrial throughout the United Kingdom. British Land Co. Plc makes up another 18% of the FTSE Index and invests in income producing, freehold commercial properties. They are also involved in property trading, finance and investment of office, retail and industrial space. The heavy weighting of nonconstruction companies in the FTSE Index suggests it would move more in sync with the office rental market because the time period for office investment and commercial development are similar. As our regression analysis reveals an R-squared of .796 suggests that the two indices have grown and contracted at equal points in time. In addition the data points begin roughly the same time that England implemented the "Big Bang" or financial deregulation of its markets which could have effected investment and the corresponding values in both these public and private indices. Yearly Change of England's FTSE Index and London Office Rents -+-FTSE Property Index FIGURE 2:1 -U- London Office Rental Index 1.80 1.60 1.40 1.20 1.00 0.80 0.60 0.40 0.20 0.00 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 Our Paris data, although only from 1989 to 1996 reports similar results. The SBREAL Index consists of 18 members of which SIMCO makes up 14%. This firm sells and leases apartments in Paris and surrounding suburbs. Unibail makes up another 11 % of this index and is active in leasing and renting of office and retail space. The Paris office market is most strongly correlated with the SBREAL Property Index during corresponding years with an R-squared of .77 most likely due to a heavier weighting of non-construction companies in the index. Both index's are generally downward trending and given their linearity makes it more difficult to draw a conclusion from these two sets of data. FIGURE 2:2 Yearly Change in France's SBREAL Index and Paris Office Rents -+- + Paris Office Rental Index SBREAL Property Index 3.00 2.50 2.00 1.50 1.00 0.50 0.00 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 Metanopoli Real Estate Company comprises 60% of our Milan Composite Index and is involved in the construction, purchase and leasing of real estate in Italy and abroad. This company invests primarily in the office properties of Italy's national petroleum group ENI. Risanamento Spa. makes up another 20% of our composite index and primarily constructs and sells buildings, provides subcontracting for third parties and real estate management. Aedes Spa. makes the final 20% of our Milan Composite and is involved in real estate trading and property management. With data from 1986-1996 for these three public companies our regression reveals a strong R-squared of .62 when run in corresponding years with the private market. This could be the result of only 3 companies in the composite which deal heavily in the office market sector. Yearly Change in Italy's Public Property Index and Milan's Office Rents -+- FIGURE 2:3 -U- Milan Office Rental Index Milan Property Index 1.80 1.60 1.40 1.20 1.00 0.80 0.60 0.40 0.20 0.00 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 Frankfurt, however, paints a different picture. Here our data runs from 1975-1996 for the office rental market and the CDAX Property Index, which consists of 21 members. The index is weighted 23% by IVG Holdings which owns, develops and manages commercial and residential properties in addition to providing facility, building and airline operational services. The largest weight in the index however, a full 35%, is WCM Beteiligung which acquires and operates various businesses including real estate properties, buildings and facilities primarily in Germany. It appears that due to a very regulated business environment in Germany and that many of these companies are involved in a variety of fields their performance would run, as the data suggests, very close to the private market. Regression analysis reveals an R-squared of .476 when the CDAX Index is lagged one year behind our private market index.. The graph also illustrates the volatility in the public real estate sector which could exemplify "noise" or informational shortcomings in publicly traded goods. Yearly Change in Germany's CDAX Index and Frankfurt'sOffice Rents -*- CDAX Holding Index FIGURE 2:4 --- Frankfurt Office Rental Index 3.50 3.00 2.50 2.00 1.50 1.00 0.50 0.00 1975 1977 1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 The NCREIF Index consists of 71 data contributing members of whom most invest in existing real estate and within this category mostly office space. Our New York data supports the Frankfurt evidence and the assumption that NCREIF and the private office market have similar attributes. Indeed we find an R-squared of .608 when the NCREIF Index leads the private market index by 1 year with office rental data from 1977-1998. The data points trend similarly although with varying degrees of volatility but it is apparent in 1980 and again in 1996 that the NCREIF's peak lead the office sector peak by about one year. Yearly Change in the United State's NCREIF Index and Manhattan Office Rents FIGURE 2:5 -+-NCREIF Property Index 3.00 2.50 2.00 1.50 1.00 0.50 0.00 -0.50 -i-New York Office Rental Index In Tokyo we regressed the Topix Index, consisting of 21 members, from 1981-1996 against the inner Tokyo office market rental data and found similar results that public markets are a leading indicator for private market cycles with a strong R-squared of .724. This analysis reveals that because 48% of the TOPIX is weighted with the Misubishi Estate Co., which owns, manages and develops commercial property primarily in the Otemachi area of downtown Tokyo; and 28% with Mitsui Fudosan, which owns operates and sells office, condominiums and land, that the construction industry bias of this index would deviate slightly with the office rental market. As the graph illustrates the construction biased public index denotes some 600% over the private market possibly due to divergence in the highly regulated underlying asset of the public index. Japans opaque housing system is notorious for artificially inflating the price of real estate assets. FIGURE 2:6 Yearly Change in Japan's TOPIX Index and Tokyo's Office Rents -*-Tokyo Office Rental Index -+-TOPIX Property Index 7.00 6.00 5.00 4.00 3.00 2.00 1.00 0.00 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 In Sydney and Singapore, however, we find the almost no correlation exist between public and private markets. With Sydney we had data from 1978-1996 for office rental rates and the ASX Property Index, which consists of 43 members, but show only a .077 R-squared when the public market leads the private index by 1 year. General Property Trust makes 17% of the ASX Index and invests in retail, office and hotel/tourism properties throughout Australia. Stockland Trust Co. develops and markets land and builds commercial real estate, townhomes and retirement units in Australia. The poor R-squared statistic could be linked to the fact that Australia is one of the more deregulated markets in Asia and is thought to be 20% owned by the Japanese (Green, Malpezzi and Barnes, 1998). FIGURE 2:7 Yearly Change in Australia's ASX Index and Sydney's Office Rents -U-Sydney Office Rental Index -+-ASX Property Index 1.2 1.0 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0.0 1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 The Singapore Property Index consists of 16 members, 35% of which consists of City Develops Company. This company develops and owns property including residential, industrial, retail and hotels. DBS Land is 14% of the Singapore Index and is engaged in property trading, investment and services. Singapore Land is an additional 12% of this index and is involved in property development for investment, trading, property management and consulting. In Singapore the data runs from 19861996 but shows only a .023 R-squared when the public market leads the private market index by 1 year. The dramatic growth rate of publicly traded real estate companies points to the theory that the Singapore real estate market is inefficient due to a close to 25% value increase within 10 years. Sixty one percent of the property index (Figure 2:8) is comprised of three public real estate companies invested mostly in Singapore (Bloomberg, 1998) thus this real growth could be an indication of a speculative market. FIGURE 2:8 Yearly Change in Singapore's Property Index and Office Rents -u-Singapore Office Rental Index -+-Singapore Property Index 25.00 20.00 15.00 10.00 5.00 0.00 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 The stock price cycles of publicly traded real estate companies tend to lead, between 1 and 2 years, the office rental income cycles in the majority of countries regression analyzed. In addition, the economies of Europe and North America appear to be more financially transparent, resulting in both public and private real estate market cycles to trend in fairly consistent patterns, but Asia's public real estate market cycles are quite volatile as compared with the office rental index indicating comparably more regional economic instability. CHAPTER 3 The National Economy and its Effect on the Local Office Market Rental Rates Regional macroeconomic policies focus on the development of stable long term growth. Interest rate and taxation levels are two key means by which forward looking policy makers attempt to achieve such goals. Pertaining to real estate, which is perceived to be a durable good, rents should also respond to new demand. Thus gross domestic product, which is a function of employment growth should directly influence rental rates. Mills (1987), found that capital investment in the United States housing market returned only slightly more than half of what non-housing capital returned. This suggests a misallocation of capital toward housing which would have the affect of reducing economic growth. With quarterly national income and products data from 1952-1992 as well as time series GDP data Green (1997) concluded that under a variety of time series specifications residential investment causes , but is not caused by GDP. While non-residential investment does not cause, but is caused by GDP. Thus residential investment seems to lead the United States into and out of a recession, non-residential investment does not. The Downs' study (1994) postulates that stocks are leading economic indicators, typically hitting high points in the middle of an economic expansion and moving downward in advance of a recession. His study points out that real estate typically hits its highest valuation at the peak of an economic expansion and then moves downward in advance of a recession. His theory is that public market values of commercial real estate should be higher than private market valuations in the early stages of a business cycle recovery and lower at the peak of the cycle. Given this previous literature the question remains, does real estate follow GNP demand shocks or is it capital driven? The theory is that for GNP to be a determinant of the office market cycle the subject country must be operating in a financially regulated "vacuum." This meaning that the level of national production growth would be influenced solely by local capital. Of course, unregulated or open markets would always be available to international capital flows and thus the local GNP's performance would be risk adversely diversified away for the relevant office market investor. This study analyzes the cyclical trends of a nations Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and its central markets office rental rates in 13 countries across North America, Europe and Asia. The office rental rates, being a reflection of a properties income potential, are varyingly affected by international capital flows and thus uniquely affected by local GDP. The local GDP growth rates and the office rental rates data runs, in most cases, from 1975-1996. The office rental data is regressed with the GDP growth data contemporaneously, and with GDP data leading the rental cycle by 1 year and then 2 years. The most convincing R-squares, or "Best" cyclical timing under the three scenarios in each country, is then used to time the lead to again regress the office rental data against the local consumer price index deflated GDP. R-squared values and graphic representations of growth and percent change in these two indices are comparatively analyzed for cyclical trends. The office market rental rates regressed against GDP growth gives an indication of the lead time of GDP's effect on office rental rate cycles and the "Best" R-squares indicate how strong a nations economic performance affects its office markets performance or theoretically the degree of the countries market regulation. Our R-Square's for contemporaneously run, 1 and 2 year lagged GDP and "Best" case scenario regressions are as follows: Table 3:1 R-Square Values of Demonstrating Cyclical Timing and Market Regulation London Office Rental Market vs Gross Domestic Product R Squared Brussels Paris Amsterdam Madrid Milan Geneva New York Toronto Sydney Singapore Tokyo Jakarta values GDP Leading Office Rents by 0.25 1 0.38 0.031 0.354 0.667 0.309 0.33 0.008 0.027 0.101 0.416 0.275 0.365 0.253 0.272 0.103 0.056 0.458 0.129 0.21 0.028 0 0.017 0.334 0.186 0.104 0.065 0.163 0.189 0.033 0.181 0.015 0.212 0.032 0.003 0.007 0.023 0.017 0.014 GDP leads by 2 years, RSquare value .565 Contemporaneous timing, RSquare value .585 GDP leads by 2 years, R-Square value .192 GDP leads by 2 years, R-Square value .003 2 years GDP Leading Office Rents by 1 Year GDP Cotemporaneous with Office Rents GDP Deflated Contemporaneous with "Best" Rents I__II GDP leads by 1year, RSquare value .017 GDP leads by 2 years, RSquare value .025 GDP leads by 2 years, RSquare value 111 Contemporaneous timing RSquare value .023 GDP leads by 2 years, RSquare value .050 GDP leads by 2 years RSquare value .412 GDP GDP GDP leads by leads by leads by 2 years 2 years, 2 years, R-Square RRSquare Square value .481 value value .070 .164 With the yearly change in the United Kingdom's GDP and office rental rate data in London's central business district from 1975 to 1996, a slightly significant R-squared of .253 results when a regression is run with GDP leading by 1 year the office rental data. With GDP leading by 2 years a similar R-squared of .251 results, but only an R-squared of .065 when they are compared in simultaneous years. Using 1 year as our "best" result, the regression fails to find any relevant significance with an R-squared of .017 suggesting that the United Kingdom's economy and the local office market are not highly correlated. Although their peaks and troughs are similarly timed the poor "Best" R-square suggests that the English economy is financially integrated across national borders. As the graphs depict the United Kingdom's economy and office rental levels generally move in sync over the 21 year time frame with the economy appearing to drive the office market. Yearly Change in the United Kingdom's GDP and London's Office Rents Cycle GDP GROWTH 0.08 0.07 0.061.00 0.05 0.04 0.03 0.02 0.01 0.00 -0.03 -0.03 -+- Figure 3.1 London Office Rents Deflated 1.20 0.04 0.80 ,0.6 -0.4 0.80 ij0.00 Volatility of United Kingdom's GDP and London's Office Rents -+- Figure 3.2 London Office Rents Deflated -U- GDP Deflated 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 With 21 years of data on the Belgium economy from 1975-1996 we find striking similarities in the movements of the economy and the office market with the nation's GDP appearing to drive the office rental market. As the R-square's prove for Brussels when GDP leads by 2 years the office rental rate data we have a .38 correlation, but only .272 when GDP leads by 1 year and a poor .163 when they are run contemporaneously. The "Best" case scenario is when GDP leads by 2 years the office rental cycle producing a strong .565 R-value. This suggests the economies performance and the office markets performance are highly correlated due to a economically regulated and a less financially integrated nation. Yearly Change in Belgium's GDP and Brussels Office Rental Cycle GDP Growth -+- Figure 3.3 Brussels Office Rents Deflated 0.08 1.20 0.06 1.00 0.04 0.80 0.02 0.60 0.00 0.40 -0. 0.20 0.004 0.00 Volatility of Brussels GDP and Belgium's Office Rents -+- Figure 3.4 Brussels Office Rents Deflated --- GDP 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 Paris, however, shows a less significant .189 R-square value when France's GDP growth cycle leads the office rental rate data by 2 years and a .103 R-square when GDP data leads by 1 year. An insignificant .031 results when they are run contemporaneously. It appears that both the economy and the office market have both grown in the late 70's and early 80's but that the low R-square's result from an increased integration of this economy with surrounding Europe. The late 80's, however, do seem to depict that the economy's peak valuation has proceeded the office market's peak valuation by approximately 2 years, possibly indicating a significant correlation as our "Best" case scenario .585 R-squared depicts. Yearly Change in France's GDP and Paris Office Rents Paris GDP Growth Figure 3.5 + Paris Office Rental Index 0.10 3.00 0.08 2.50 0.06 2.00 0.04 1.50 0.02 1.00 0.00 -0 -0.04 c)0.50 0.00 Volatility of France's GDP and Paris Office Rents Figure 3.6 -+- Paris Office Rental Index -w- Paris GDP 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 The peak valuations for both the Netherlands economy and the office market indicate that the GDP growth cycle has preceded the office markets' peak in the late 70's and again in the mid 90's. But our R-squares using data from 1975-1996 show an insignificant .033 R-squared when GDP is regressed in similar years as office rental rates and only a slightly better .056 R-squared when GDP data leads the office rental data by 1 year. When GDP leads the office rental data by 2 years, however, a strong .354 R-square results indicating that GDP's cycle lead the office markets cycle by this time period. Our "Best" case scenario produces a .192 correlation indicating that the Dutch economy and the office market are slightly integrated. In addition, the economy occasionally appears to be driving office rental rates, but the evidence is unsupported in these tests. Yearly Change in Dutch GDP and Amsterdam Office Rents GDP 0.06 0.05 0.04 0.03 0.02 0.01 Figure 3.7 --- Amsterdam Rents Deflated Growth 1.20 1.00 0.80 0.60 0.00 0.40 -0.0 020 -0.02 -0.03 0.00 Volatility of Dutch GDP and Amsterdam Office Rents Figure 3.8 -+- Amsterdam Rents Deflated Growth -m- GDP 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 Madrid, with data points from 1975-1996 shows a .458 R-squared when the GDP data leads the office market data by 1 year only a .181 R-squared when run contemporaneously. A .667 Rsquared result, however, is indicated for GDP leading the office data by a 2 year time period. The "Best" case scenario result is a poor .003 R-squared. This indicates a strong segmentation between the Spanish economy and its regional neighbors. Our graphs, however, definitely depict similar peaks and troughs with a definite build up of the economy preceding the office market's peak valuation by about 2 years. Change in Spain's GDP and Madrid's Office Rents GDP Growth Figure 3.9 -+- Madrid Rents Def Growth 0.07 1.40 0.06 0.05 0.04 0.03 1.00 0.30.80 0.02 0.01 0.00 -0.01 0.60 0.40 A 7- :b7,-6 IVc!V:wrno 0.0 Volatility of Spain's GDP and Madrid's Office Rents Figure 3.10 -+- Madrid Rents Def Growth -a- GDP 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 In Milan we have similar findings with data from 1975-1996 of an R-squared of .129 when the Italian GDP data leads the office rental data by 1 year. With a 2 year lead, however, we have a stronger .309 R-square although with the "Best" case scenario we again have a poor showing with a .025 R-squared indicating that the Milan office market is deregulated and operates separate of the nations economy. The graphs do depict, however, that the economy appears to be driving the office market throughout the 80's and 90's by about 2 years. Figure 3.11 Yearly Change in Italy's GDP and Milan Office Rents GDP Growth -+- Milan Office Rental Index 0.06 1.80 0.05 1.60 0.04 1.40 0.03 1.20 1.00 0.02 0.01 0.80 0.00 0.60 0.40 -0.01 0.20 -0.02 0.00 Volatility of Italy GDP and Milan's Office Rents -.- 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 Figure 3.12 Milan Office Rental Index -u-*GDP 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 Geneva, with data from 1978-1996, finds an R-squared of .21 when GDP data leads the office rental data by 1 year and also when it is run contemporaneously. With a 2 year lead, however, a more significant .33 R-squared result indicates the office market follows the economies performance. The "Best" case scenario's R-squared is only .111 which again indicates a fairly unregulated market open to international commerce. Our graphs uphold this statistic with the economy appearing to again drive the office market by 2 years. Change in Switzerland's GDP and Geneva Office Rents M GDP Growth Figure 3.13 -+- Geneva Rents Deflated Growth 3.00 0.07 0.06 2.50 0.05 2.00 0.04 0.03 1.50 0.02 0.01 1.00 0.00 -0.0 -0.02 0.50 0.00 Volatility of Switzerland's GDP and Geneva's Office Rents Figure 3.14 -+- Geneva Rents Deflated Growth -*-GDP 3.00 2.50 1.001.50 0.00 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 With New York we take the GNP and Manhattan office data from 1970-1997 but only find a .02 Rsquared when GNP data leads the office rental data by 1 year, and only .032 when lead by 2 years. The "Best" case scenario of a 2 year lead only produces a poor R-squared of .023 which indicates the economies segmentation with the office market. As the graphs depict the office markets peak appears to lead the economies peak by roughly 2 years but in general Manhattan's office market cycle appears to diverge from the United States GNP data possibly due to the international scope of the New York tenant base. Yearly Change in the United States GNP and Manhattan Office Rents GNP Growth 0.15 0.10 -+- Figure 3.15 New York Office Rental Index 3.00 2.50 2.00 0.05 1.50 0.00 1.00 0.50 -0.10 0.00 Volatility of the United States GNP and Manhattan Office Rents -+- Figure 3.16 New York Office Rental Index -U- GNP 1970 19711972 1973 1974 19751976 1977 19781979 19801981 1982 19831984 19851986 1987 19881989 1990 1991 19921993 1994 1995 1996 1997 Toronto, with data from 1975-1996 shows only a poor .003 R-squared when regression is run with the GDP data in similar years as the office rental data, and only a .027 R-square when GDP lead the office data by 2 years. Our "Best" case scenario R-square of a 2 year lead is only an R-value of .050 indicating that the Toronto office market is not financially integrated across borders. Thus the Toronto office markets performance is very dependent on the Canadian GDP. Here our graphic data runs contemporaneously during the 1980's but appears to diverge during the earlier part of the 1990's. Change in Canada's GDP and Toronto's Office Rents GDP Growth -+- Figure 3.17 Toronto Rents Deflated Growth 0.08 1.80 0.06 1.60 1.40 0.04 0.02 1.20 1.00 0.00 0.80 -0.04 0.60 0.40 0.20 0.00 U U Volatility of Canada's GDP and Toronto's Office Rents -+- 1975 1976 1977 Figure 3.18 Toronto Rents Deflated Growth -U- GDP 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 Sydney with data from 1975-1996 results in an R-squared of .017 when the GDP leads the office rental data by 1 year and .007 R-square when run contemporaneously. When GDP data leads the office rental data by 2 years, however, we find a .101 R-squared. A 2 year lead, being our "Best" case scenario, returns a .412 R-square indicating that the Australian economy has a strong effect on the Sydney office markets performance. Although the R-squares are less than significant for GDP leading the office market by a definite time period there does appear to be some similarities in the two indices movements over time with GDP preceding the office markets peaks. Thus the indices do appear to correlate possibly do to a partial segmentation of the Australian economy with other nations Figure 3.19 Change in Australia's GDP and Sydney's Office Rents -*- Sydney Office Rental Index GDP Growth u.u0 0.06 I.LU pp .. .... ...... II 0.04 ggl 'em 1.00 MVig k QN IN 0.80 Q, 0.02 0- Mi E, .... .... . 0.60 0.00 -0.0 -0.04 -0.06 sg 0.40 M.0 '.40 F FIN 0.20 0.00 Volatility of Australia's GDP and Sydney's Office Rents Figure 3.20 -#- Sydney Office Rental Index -m- GDP 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 Singapore with data from 1975-1996 results in a significant R-squared of .334 when the GDP data leads the office market data by 1 year and an even more significant .416 when lead by 2 years. Thus with 2 years being the "Best" case scenario the R-square value is a .164 indicating that the Singaporean economy has a weak effect on the office markets performance or in other words the economy is internationally integrated. As the graphs also depict the economy definitely appears to be driving the office market by about 2 years with similar movements in both indices. Figure 3.21 Change in Singapore's GDP and Office Rent GDP Growth -4-Singapore Office Rental Index 4.00 0.20 3.50 0.15 3.00 0.10 2.50 2.00 0.05 1.50 1.00 0.00 0.50 -oo~c~o ~0.00 Volatility of Singapore's GDP and Office Rents Figure 3.22 -+- Singapore Office Rental Index --- GDP 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 Tokyo as well, with data from 1975-1996 shows an R-squared of .186 when the GDP data leads the office rental data by 1 year and a .275 R-square when it leads by 2 years. GDP data and the office market index run contemporaneously results in a poor .017 R-squared. Thus with 2 years being the "Best" case scenario a poor .070 R-squared indicates that the Japanese economy's performance does not affect the Tokyo office market performance although it does lead it by approximately 2 years cyclically. The graphs depict a pattern of similar movements in both sets of data with a trend for the economy to drive the office market especially in the late 1980's. Change in Japan's GDP and Tokyo's Office Rents GDP Growth 0.07 0.06 Figure 3.23 -+-Tokyo Office Rental Index 2.50 2.00 0.05 0.04 1.50 0.03 1.00 0.02 0.01 0.00 0.50 0.00 Volatility of Japan's GDP and Tokyo's Office Rents -+- 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 Figure 3.24 Tokyo Office Rental Index -m- GDP 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 I-_-_ ---- 9 Jakarta with data from 1980-1995 results in an R-squared of .104 when the GDP data leads the office market data by 1 year and .365 R-square when it leads by 2 years. An insignificant .014 result when GDP is run contemporaneously with the Jakarta office market data. Thus with 2 years being the "Best" case scenario a strong .481 R-squared indicates that the highly regulated Indonesian economy strongly affects the local office market's performance. The graphs, however, show only a slight significance from year to year but display a tendency for the economy to lead the office market by 2 years. This could easily be due to the tightly regulated financial world representative of emerging Asian economies of the 1980's and 1990's. Change in Indonesia's GDP and Jakarta Office Rents GDP DEF Growth Figure 3.25 -+- Jakarta Office Rental Index 0.25 1.20 0.20 1.00 0.15 0.80 0.10 0.60 0.05 0.40 0.00 0.20 -0.0 Y0.00 Volatility of Indonesia's GDP and Jakarta's Office Rents Figure 3.26 -+- Jakarta Office Rental Index -n- GDP 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 The results of the analysis are that the more regulated an economy is the more likely its economic performance, as indicated by GDP, will enhance or detract from its local office market's performance. When a country is highly regulated this means that international capital flows will have greater barriers to capitalize on local business opportunities. A deregulated country will have its local market cycles determined by international capital flows. Regulated markets can be seen in countries like Jakarta, Sydney, Brussels and Paris where GDP (deflated) when regressed against the office markets performance by a 2 year lead (in the case of Paris, contemporaneously) results in a .4 R-squared or better. The opposite effect can be seen in financially deregulated markets like London, Amsterdam, Madrid, Milan, Geneva and Singapore where GDP growth is highly correlated with office markets growth, but uncorrelated when regressed directly with deflated GDP data. In addition, it appears that an economies peak valuation precedes the office markets peak valuation by about 2 years regardless of the extent of financial deregulation which infers the beginnings of a global office market cycle. CHAPTER 4 Global Real Estate Cycles The U.S. was the first country to deregulate in the late 1970's. It was also the first to experience a volatile real estate cycle in the early 1980's. Until this time the U.S. real estate markets were still insulated from the international economy and U.S. regional markets remained synchronized. The massive saving and loan debacle that ensued had effects that were still being worked out until the closure of the Resolution Trust Corporation at the end of 1995. (Renaud, 1997). With the 1985 Plaza currency realignment, the U.S. international capital position had shifted from net creditor to net debtor for the first time in seventy years. This new capital situation had transformed the United States into an open economy sensitive to external influences. Given the very large size of the U.S. economy, international capital flows have had a different impact on regional real estate economies. As a result during the first global real estate cycle, U.S. regional cycles became asynchronous. California and Northeast became prime targets for foreign investors, particularly the Japanese, and these two regions cycles moved in harmony with the global cycle (Renaud, 1997). As J.P. Mei (1998) points out during the 1988 to 1994 period the west and Japan were suffering through one of the worst real estate slumps in history while the rest of Asia was enjoying a boom. Quan and Titman (1996) show that average correlation's between the U.S. and five Asian real estate markets were actually negative during this period. Green, Malpezzi and Barnes (1998) investigate international and domestic market integration of property and equity markets in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. There results also support the notion that property and equity markets are not integrated internationally and that diversification benefits are present domestically. The U.S. experience sets a good example for the international real estate investor. Yet most financial managers, bank supervisors and industry people continue to behave as if their national real estate economy was still a local non-traded sector. This can be evidenced by the fact that most analysts treat the U.S. real estate economy and its capital markets as closed to international speculation. All office real estate markets will experience the contraction and expansion of their stock depending on population and economic growth. Whether it be New York in the 70's, Tokyo in the 80's or Bombay in the 90's; all real estate markets experience peaks and troughs reflective of which stage of the development cycle they are in. The theory is that if there are unpredictable patterns to global real estate cycles then portfolio managers would be wise to take note when searching for the most efficient portfolio investment. On the surface international real estate investment would appear to be the taking of stock in the government of another country with the normal desire of wealth building in order. All seems relatively straight forward until a currency or political crisis comes into the picture. A crisis in the 1990's sense of the word is when a political organization attempts to present a economic scenario different from reality to the public. Mexico, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Indonesia etc. have all experienced recent economic crisis where a lack of transparency in the banking system was felt to be at play (Dornbusch, 1998). These countries had shaky financial systems of whose clients had large dollar debts. The Bank of Thailand could not raise interest rates to support its external financing without making the loan problem worse and it could not reduce them without taking the risk of making the external financing crisis worse. This study looks at office rental rates in 17 major market around the world from 1970 to 1998. First, the North American, Asian, and European office market cycles are graphically depicted in order to illustrate correlations and changes that these regions have endured during the past 30 years. Next, three correlation matrices are produced using: A) 1980 to 1998 office market rental rates denominated in local currency in all 17 countries which gives an understanding of the most recent real estate cycle and the ensuing regional diversification opportunities. B) 1970 to 1998 office market rental rates denominated in local currency which gives an indication of the deregulation affects over a longer period of time. C) 1970 to 1998 office market rental rates exchanged in U.S. dollar capital in order to give an better understanding of the effects of currency risk for the U. S. dollar backed investor. Our North American graph highlights the percentage changes of three regional office market cycles: New York, San Francisco and Toronto. The peaks and troughs are clearly moving in sync the majority of years as depicted in the 1980's and again in the late 1990's. The numbers at the bottom of the graph represent the percent change in each year of the rental rate movements. Figure 4.1 North American Office Market Cycle 0) C -. 0 1970 1973 1976 1980 1983 1986 1989 1993 1996 -4.76 0.00% -1.38 1.59% -0-New York 0.00% 0.00% 55.17 -4.35 -*-San Francisco 4.17% 0.00% 50.00 0.00% -11.76 3.33% -8.16 8.33% -A- Toronto 0.00% 10.68 40.00 13.55 2.69% 5.26% -19.35 11.11 Years Across our European countries we find smaller changes in rental rates throughout the late 1970's until we reach the mid to late 1980's where fluctuations become greater with similar movements in the up and down cycles ending in 1997. European Office Market Cycle Figure 4.2 -4- London - City -a- -0- Frankfurt -i-Madrid Brussels -x- Paris - Milan -w- Amsterdam Geneva 100.00% 80.00% 60.00% 40.00% 20.00% 0.00% -20.00% -40.00% -60.00% -U-London - City -6- Brussels -*- Paris -*-Amsterdam -- Frankfurt -- Madrid Milan Geneva - 19-70 1973 1975 11978 1981 11983 1986 :1988 1991 62.96 -35.56:9.68% 12.50 3.33% 7.14% -6.67 7.14%10.00% 7.69% 4.55%0.00% 10.00 14.29 5.56% 5.00% 13.64 5.77%,0.00%i-14.29 0.00% -7.41 8.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 7.14%.8.11% 7.14%' -6.45 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 10.00 8.51% 0.00% 0.00%;0.00%!0.00% 34.75 10.00 '6.67% -31.82 33.33 14.55 6.06% 15.38 14.06 -4.26 8.33% 0.00% 5.88% 25.00 11.11 12.50 40.63 48.15 0.00% 9.67% 18.83 -6.67 13.33 26.32 0.00% 1994 1996 8.33% -9.09 -5.71 0.00% -3.85 -9.09 -9.09 -11.11 14.29 -3.13 -6.67 5.56% -4.35 10.00 -11.11 -7.14 In Asia our graph reveals that Sydney in the early 1970's moves in a negative fashion compared with other regional markets. During the 1980's and 1990's, however, the markets are moving more contemporaneously with Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta and Singapore posting 70% plus increases in their office rental rates. By 1996 and 1997 all the markets have cooled considerably posting sub 10% volatility levels. Asian Office Market Cycle -- Sydney --- 1970 Singapore --- 1973 Hong Kong --*-Tokyo -W- Jakarta -4- 1975 1978 1981 1983 1986 11988 1991 Kuala Lumpar 1994 1996 -Sydney -15.74:6.59% 11.11 33.33 3.08% 21.03 14.29 -4.83 -0.84 1.64% 14.55 11.32 -12.72164.03 -14.30 -28.48 21.56 -9.28 24.05 3.23% Hong Kong 55.00 -11.76 21.62 0.00%1-26.92 22.73 51.43 -23.21 45.31 -5.79 -- Tokyo 0.00% 9.52% -8.33 6.38% 17.00 8.87% 7.73% 7.02% -11.11 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 7.14% 6.67%1-14.29 -15.52 94.17 -24.93 7.69% -7.69 -N-Jakarta --- Figure 4.3 Kuala Lumpar 14.29 3.53% 2.59% 39.72 0.59% -3.05 -3.31 22.49 13.43 -1.20 The next part of our study we perform a correlation matrix across 15 countries. First we look at data from 1980 to 1998 as this shorter time scale correlates the minimum time series of data that was available across all 15 countries. Table 4.1 Correlation Matrix from 1980-1998 London Brussel Paris Amster Frankfurt Madrid Milan dam London 1.0000 Brussels -0.1861 1.0000 Paris 0.3476 0.7508 1.0000 Amsterd -0.4286 0.5788 0.1611 Frankfur -0.0611 0.9135 0.8682 0.5378 1.0000 Madrid 0.5008 0.5237 0.8196 0.3367 0.7286 1.0000 Milan Geneva N.Y. Toronto Sydney Singapo Tokyo Jakarta K.L. 0.3512 0.6004 0.8653 0.3757 0.6947 0.3867 0.8154 0.3053 0.3812 -0.7671 0.3984 0.2464 0.7607 -0.4174 0.2171 0.4386 0.6421 0.4622 0.8849 0.0333 -0.0802 0.3558 0.3095 0.5062 0.5156 0.5743 0.9313 0.1112 0.1116 -0.4639 0.3765 0.2445 -0.8246 0.4947 0.0474 0.6621 0.8005 0.4696 -0.5542 -0.1357 0.6182 0.5068 0.7720 -0.2816 0.3816 0.9394 0.6478 0.0480 0.4815 0.8392 0.4760 0.9171 0.1695 -0.1758 Geneva New York Toronto Sydney Singapor Tokyo Jakarta Kuala Lumpur 1.0000 1.0000 0.6174 -0.0552 0.3815 0.8049 0.4788 0.9173 0.0767 -0.0167 1.0000 -0.2005 0.4583 0.8428 -0.0887 0.8121 -0.4562 -0.5326 1.0000 0.7473 1.0000 -0.0472 0.5240 1.0000 -0.0254 -0.0518 0.3274 -0.1266 0.4702 0.9046 0.8067 0.4392 -0.1502 -0.5032 -0.7766 -0.3108 1.0000 0.3246 0.4186 0.5033 1.000 -0.141 1.000 -0.221 -0.0296 1 Table 4.2 Correlation Matrix from 1970 to 1998 London N.Y. Toronto Sydney Singapo Tokyo Jakarta K.L London Brussels Paris Amsterd Frankfit Madrid Milan Geneva Rents Rents Rents Rents Rents Rents Rents Rents Rents Rents Rents Rents Rents Rents Deflated Deflated Deflated Deflated Deflated Def Deflated Deflated Deflated Deflated Deflated Deflated Deflated Deflated 1.0000 Rents Brussels Rents Paris Rents Amsterd Rents Frankfur Rents Madrid Rents Milan Rents Geneva Rents N.Y. Rents Toronto 0.0719 1.0000 0.2539 0.5388 1.0000 -0.0524 0.6772 0.0405 1.0000 -0.0475 0.8175 0.8673 0.4438 1.0000 0.4967 0.5125 0.5074 0.3667 0.5753 1.0000 0.3512 0.6004 0.8653 0.3757 0.8005 0.9394 1.0000 0.6626 0.4355 0.8415 -0.2842 0.5086 0.5922 0.6174 1.0000 0.1488 -0.6431 0.0748 -0.3832 -0.2069 -0.0956 -0.0552 -0.0915 1.0000 0.7145 -0.3253 0.3670 -0.4346 0.0080 0.3777 0.3815 0.5048 0.7431 1.0000 0.4084 0.3925 0.8191 0.1038 0.6029 0.2232 0.8049 0.7802 0.3167 0.5336 1.0000 -0.0577 0.3131 0.5626 0.3165 0.5971 0.2472 0.4788 0.1053 0.3030 0.1686 0.6566 1.0000 0.4836 0.5464 0.9071 0.0642 0.7973 0.7587 0.9173 0.8227 0.0997 0.5363 0.7260 0.4612 1.0000 0.1501 -0.1256 -0.5082 0.3360 -0.3074 0.2613 0.0767 -0.4562 0.0860 0.0894 -0.5978 -0.0576 -0.2342 Rents Sydney Rents Singapo Rents Tokyo Rents Jakarta Rents Kuala Lumpur I -0.2104 0.6263 -0.1313 0.7992 0.2473 -0.0776 -0.0167 -0.4923 -0.5757 -0.7547 1.0000 II -0.0002 0.2420 -0.2663 0.2378 Rents Overall the correlations are higher in comparison to the correlation matrix performed from 19701980. Exceptions were Milan, with data from 1980-1998; Geneva, with data from 1977-1998 and Toronto and Jakarta with data from 1973-1996. In London, for example, with a longer time series, Brussels becomes positively correlated with an R-square of .07 where as with a shorter time series it has an R-square of -. 18. All other countries correlated with London, however, show only a slightly stronger correlation when using the data over the 1980-1998 time period. Brussels is the same story when short and long term data series are compared as it remains negatively correlated with New York, Toronto and Jakarta. With Paris, once again, our shorter time series of data reflects stronger correlation with all 15 markets, but New York does change form positive .07 with the 1970-1998 series data to a negative -.03 with the shorter time series. Amsterdam, as well, offers stronger Rsquares over a shorter time cycle with the exception of Sydney which changes from a positive .103 with the 1970-1998 data to a negative -.03 using the 1980-1998 data. Frankfurt offers strong correlation in the short run against all countries, but Toronto is positively correlated in the long run although the R-square turns into a negative -.13 in the short run. With Madrid the correlations are stronger in the short run across all regions. Milan our deflated office rents only run from 1980 to 1998 so R- squares remain constant. Geneva tells a similar story but Singapore becomes negatively correlated in the short run. New York R-squares change the most in the short run with Sydney changing from a .3 in the long run series to a negative -.04 in the short run. Singapore changes from a .3 in the long run to a negative -.02 while Tokyo goes from a .09 to a negative -.12 in the short run. Toronto R-squares change from .16 in the long run to a -.05 when correlated in the short run with Singapore. Sydney, however, remains constant with a slightly stronger correlation in the short run across all countries. Singapore and Jakarta show significant change from negative -.05 in the long run to a positive .4 in the short run. Tokyo remains fairly constant over both lengths of data series and Kuala Lumpur changes from a .23 to a negative -.02 in the short run. Interpreting this data over the two time scales it becomes apparent that as markets develop their diversification benefits also will change. Finally, the office rental data is exchanged into U.S. dollars in order to give the dollar based investor an understanding of the effects of currency risk on international investment. Correlation Matrix from 1970-1996 with U.S. Dollar Denominated Rents London $ Brussel $ U.S. Rents Rents Dollar Paris$ Rents Based Amsterdam $ Rents Frank- Madrid$ Milan $ Geneva $ furt $ Rents Rents Rents N.Y. Rents Table 4.3 Toronto $ Sydney $ Singapor Tokyo $ Rents Rents e $ Rents Rents Deflated Rents Rents London $ Rents Brussel $ Rents Paris $ Rents Amsterdam $ 1.00 -0.03 1.00 0.15 0.80 1.00 -0.24 0.89 0.72 100 Frankfurt $ Rents Madrid $ Rents Milan $ Rents -0.14 0.84 0.94 0.80 1.00 0.58 0.35 0.29 0.17 0.10 1.00 0.54 0.46 0.76 0.41 0.57 0.98 1.00 Geneva $ Rents N.Y. Rents Toronto $ Rents Sydney $ Rents Singapor e $ Rents Tokyo $ Rents 0.36 0.55 0.79 0.35 0.69 0.27 0.45 1.00 0.00 -0.61 -0.19 -0.34 -0.28 -0.31 0.11 -0.38 1.00 0.65 -0.43 0.05 -0.52 -0.18 0.31 0.50 0.16 0.62 1.00 0.68 -0.03 0.20 -0.12 0.12 0.14 0.60 0.09 0.34 0.68 1.00 -0.30 0.47 0.54 0.58 0.69 -0.24 0.23 0.30 0.07 -0.17 0.37 1.00 0.10 0.61 0.90 0.52 0.88 0.01 0.59 0.93 -0.10 0.13 0.27 0.57 Rents 1.00 This matrix correlates the same office rental rate data although exchanged into U.S. dollar currency. After comparing the R-squared values in a local and U.S. dollar denominated currency striking differences appear for U.S. dollar based investors. Most major currencies have remained comparatively valued with the U.S. dollar. As the table depicts, however, there are real estate opportunities which improve for those with U.S. dollar investment capital. Amsterdam and Paris show no correlation when regressed in local currency but when regressed in U.S. dollar based currency show a strong .72 correlation. This would infer that a U.S. investor would be wise not to enter into the Paris and Amsterdam markets because when exchange risk is incorporated into the return both markets move in sync thus offering little diversification benefits. Madrid and Frankfurt reveal an opposite scenario for the U.S. investor because when these markets are regressed in home currency they return a .57 R-squared but when regressed in U.S. dollar based rents results in a poor .1 R-squared. This would mean that a U.S. based investor would be better off investing in these 56 markets with U.S. capital as diversification benefits are present. Sydney's currency appears to fluctuate strongly as the R-squares depict in the local currency and U.S. dollar based matrix. In general here the R-square values drop significantly when based in U.S. dollars across all markets which tells the U.S. investor that the Australian investment is a valuable asset for a more efficient portfolio. With Singapore the correlations drop slightly when the U.S. dollar R-squares are compared to the local currency R-squares although no significant currency arbitrage opportunities are present. Tokyo follows the same pattern as Singapore, however, it becomes noticeably less correlated with Australia and Frankfurt when correlations are run with U.S. denominated office rents. CHAPTER 5 Conclusion: The disparity between public and private markets for the international office sector is decreasing as more economies become globally integrated. Thus financial deregulation across national borders coupled with advances in information technology is equalizing public and private real estate values. Of course, management expertise and market share require a premium valuation in the case of public companies, but this does not mean that values will necessarily exceed the private sector. The data continues to point to the fact that the public real estate market leads private real estates performance by to 1 to 2 years. The time differences seem to appear when companies are involved in the building process as opposed to property sales and management. As the construction process is involved with the expansion and contraction of real estate stock it makes sense that disparities will occur between public and private indices when construction firms are involved in either market study. Secondly, a nations gross domestic product can be a strong indicator of the central business districts office market performance. This depends on a nations degree of financial deregulation and the extent of economic integration across national borders. An office market susceptible to international capital flows will be more internationally diversified and therefore should fluctuate more in line with the global economy. Of course the opposite affect is demonstrated in economies closed to international commerce or tightly regulated. Regardless, GDP's peak valuation tends to lead the office markets peak valuation by about 2 years in most major markets. This can be attributed to investor delays in seeking business opportunities during an upswinging economy and the effects of international capital cycles. Finally, as developed nations are seeing the benefit to financial deregulation, more and more developing nations are being forced to open their own markets to global competition. This is having an adverse affect on diversification benefits as economies begin to move in sync. Our time series correlation matrices have shown that although a nation may be segmented from other markets at a certain point in time; the world is not stagnant. Diversification benefits still exist for the international real estate investor but proper portfolio management is an extremely dynamic undertaking with constantly changing dimensions. In addition, currency fluctuation can have a strong impact on an investors financial returns thus an economies growth potential should be closely investigated with regards to potential investment. Appendix: Data Source: Office Market Rental Rates courtesy of CB- Richard Ellis Consumer Price Indices courtesy of Torto-Wheaton Gross Domestic Product courtesy of Torto- Wheaton Public Real Estate Indices, including company profiles courtesy of Bloomberg Intl. London Statistical Data Global Property INDEX London City GDP GDPDE GDP GDP Londo F Growt Deflat n h ed Office Rents Deflate CPI 2 FTSE FTSE FTSE London London Property Deflated Property Rents X-rate Index Index Deflated London Office Rental Index d f sq.ft. p.a. 1970 11.00 1971 12.50 1972 13.50 1973 22.00 / 19- 497_ 51.61 283.44 314.79 319.74 321.53 342.99 355.65 352.38 0.02 0.01 0.07 0.04 -0.01 1.00 1.00 18.21 60.41 0.42 1.11 1.13 1.13 1.21 1.25 1.24 0.72 0.60 0.57 (0.570.60 0.61 33.55 39.09 45.30 49.02 55.62 65.62 43.22 36.45 34.22 0.45 0.56 0.57 T 22.50 1976 1977 14.50 14.25 15.50 1978b 17.00 1979 1980 20.00 24.00 105.60 124.99 145.66 168.14 197.83 231.23 19}I 1982 27.00 30.00 254.27 278.24 346.35 349.01 -0.02 0.01 1.22 1.23 0.62 73.42 79.72 1983 1984 31.00 32.00 303.52 324.84 363.95 371.14 0.04 0.02 1.28 1.31 0.62 0.61 83.39 87.53 1W 9-' 1Q7 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 35.00 38.50 60.00 64.00 65.00 55.00 37.50 32.50 30.00 32.50 35.00 40.00 356.17 383.63 421.89 469.76 514.24 549.39 573.91 597.01 628.56 665.06 697.42 734.41 383.66 399.55 421.89 447.78 454.73 443.76 437.93 439.16 455.25 470.04 476.66 489.94 0.03 0.04 0.06 0.06 0.02 -0.02 -0.01 0.00 0.04 0.03 0.01 0.03 1.35 1.41 1.49 1.58 1.60 1.57 1.55 1.55 1.61 1.66 1.68 1.73 0.62, 0..6 0.99 1.01 0.95 0.74 0.47 0.40 0.36 0.38 0.40 0.44 92.83 96.02 100.00 104.91 113.09 123.80 131.05 135.94 138.07 141.49 146.31 149.90 1997 46.00 780.68 2100.00 1998 48.00 826.74 2257.00 0.52 35.96 36.57 .63 0.50 0.57 37.17 36.56 0.66 0.75 40.10 6.00 61.01 57.48 44.43 28.61 23.91 21.73 22.97 23.92 26.68 0.78 0.68 0.61 0.56 0.61 0.56 0.57 0.57 0.67 0.65 0.63 0.64 /36.78', 1000.00 1120.00 1520.00 1700.00 1880.00 1590.00 1480.00 1040.00 1480.00 1600.00 1480.00 1640.00 1077.19 1166.47 1520.00 1620.47 1662.42 1284.29 1129.33 765.03 1071.92 1130.83 1011.52 1094.08 1.00 1.08 1.41 1.50 1.54 1.19 1.05 0.71 1.00 1.05 0.94 1.02 0.47 0.43 37.70\ 1.00 1.06 1.59 1.62 1.52 1.18 0.76 0.63 0.58 0.61 0.63 0.71 Brussels Statistical Data Global Property INDEX Brussels GDP GDPDE F GDP Growth GDP CPI 2 Brussels Brussel Office X-rate Rents Deflated Brussels Office Rents Deflated BF sq.m. p.a. 1970 3,000 1971 3,500 1972 3,500 1973 3,750 1974 3,750 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 3,500 3,500 2,800 3,000 3,000 3,250 3,250 3,250 3,500 3,600 3,750 5,000 5,500 6,300 7,000 8,250 8,750 9,250 8,250 7,500 8,000 7,750 1997 8,000 1998 8,000 1,264 3,717.53 2,281 2,591 2,799 3,005 3,209 3,477 3,610 3,923 4,161 4,474 4,784 5,035 5,256 5,613 6,072 6,475 6,780 7,143 7,317 7,678 7,936 8,186 4,487.18 4,669.29 4,709.81 4,838.79 4,946.26 5,026.00 4,848.05 4,845.91 4,773.61 4,826.08 4,921.14 5,113.57 5,256.12 5,548.23 5,821.07 6,000.51 6,088.09 6,261.55 6,242.04 6,398.33 6,517.62 6,587.49 0.04 0.01 0.03 0.02 0.02 -0.04 0.00 -0.01 0.01 0.02 0.04 0.03 0.06 0.05 0.03 0.01 0.03 0.00 0.03 0.02 0.01 1.00 34.00 8,823.93 50.000 1.00 1.21 1.26 1.27 1.30 1.33 1.35 1.30 1.30 1.28 1.30 1.32 1.38 1.41 1.49 1.57 1.61 1.64 1.68 1.68 1.72 1.75 1.77 50.84 55.49 59.44 62.10 64.87 69.19 74.46 80.96 87.16 92.70 97.21 98.47 100.00 101.16 104.30 107.91 111.37 114.07 117.21 120.00 121.76 124.27 6,884.81 6,307.16 4,710.75 4,831.25 4,624.57 4,697.52 4,364.58 4,014.30 4,015.38 3,883.59 3,857.63 5,077.72 5,500.00 6,227.63 6,711.18 7,645.61 7,856.89 8,108.82 7,038.36 6,249.90 6,570.19 6,236.46 36.779 38.605 35.843 31.492 29.319 29.242 37.129 45.691 51.132 57.784 59.378 44.672 37.334 36.768 39.404 33.418 34.148 32.150 34.597 33.457 29.480 30.962 0.78 0.71 0.53 0.55 0.52 0.53 0.49 0.45 0.46 0.44 0.44 0.58 0.62 0.71 0.76 0.87 0.89 0.92 0.80 0.71 0.74 0.71 Paris Global Property INDEX Statistical Data Paris SBREAL SBREAL SBREAL GDP Property Deflated Property Index Index GDPDE F Paris GDP Growth Paris GDP CPI 2 Paris Paris X- Paris rate Office Rents Deflated Rental Index FF sq.m. p.a. 1970 900 1971 1,000 1972 1,100 1973 1,150 1974 900 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 900 900 1,000 1,100 1,300 1,400 1,600 1,800 1,900 2,200 2,600 3,000 3,200 3,650 4,200 4,700 4,500 4,100 3,500 3,300 3,000 2,800 1,000 970 810 890 930 700 690 1997 3,000 770 8,060 1998 3,000 890 8,414 927 871 710 759 775 575 555 1.00 0.94 0.77 0.82 0.84 0.62 0.60 1,468 1,701 1,918 2,183 2,481 2,808 3,165 3,626 4,006 4,362 4,700 5,069 5,337 5,735 6,160 6,509 6,776 7,000 7,077 7,390 7,675 7,878 2,887.46 3,064.47 3,226.53 3,514.87 3,824.67 4,059.09 4,250.17 4,478.75 4,596.46 4,705.52 4,835.04 5,148.10 5,336.65 5,669.21 5,905.53 6,032.61 6,084.58 6,136.01 6,037.71 6,157.94 6,303.12 6,339.80 0.06 0.05 0.09 0.09 0.06 0.05 0.05 0.03 0.02 0.03 0.06 0.04 0.06 0.04 0.02 0.01 0.01 -0.02 0.02 0.02 0.01 1.00 1.06 1.12 1.22 1.32 1.41 1.47 1.55 1.59 1.63 1.67 1.78 1.85 1.96 2.05 2.09 2.11 2.13 2.09 2.13 2.18 2.20 34.00 2,647.18 5.55 50.84 55.49 59.44 62.10 64.87 69.19 74.46 80.96 87.16 92.70 97.21 98.47 100.00 101.16 104.30 107.91 111.37 114.07 117.21 120.00 121.76 124.27 1,770.38 1,621.84 1,682.41 1,771.46 2,003.98 2,023.55 2,148.72 2,223.30 2,179.78 2,373.31 2,674.62 3,046.63 3,200.00 3,608.07 4,026.71 4,355.68 4,040.69 3,594.18 2,985.97 2,749.95 2,463.82 2,253.17 4.29 4.80 4.91 4.51 4.25 4.23 5.43 6.57 7.62 8.74 8.99 6.93 6.01 5.96 6.38 5.45 5.64 5.29 5.66 5.55 4.99 5.12 1.00 0.92 0.95 1.00 1.13 1.14 1.21 1.26 1.23 1.34 1.51 1.72 1.81 2.04 2.27 2.46 2.28 2.03 1.69 1.55 1.39 1.27 Amsterdam Statisical Data Global Property INDEX Amsterdam GDP DFI sq.m. p.a. 1970 200 1971 195 1972 200 GDPDEF GDP Amster- CPI 2 dam GDP Growth AmsterAmsterdam Rents dam Xrate Deflated ____ ____ 123 303.99 Amsterdam RentsDeflated Growth 1.00 40.44 494.62 3.62 1.00 1973 210 1974 220 1975 1976 1977 1978 250 250 260 275 223 256 279 301 365.01 383.34 392.90 406.89 0.05 0.02 0.04 0.02 1.20 1.26 1.29 1.34 61.13 66.66 70.98 73.87 409.00 375.03 366.31 372.26 2.53 2.64 2.45 2.16 0.83 0.76 0.74 0.75 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 280 350 350 350 300 300 300 325 330 330 375 425 450 320 342 358 373 387 406 426 438 441 458 485 517 543 415.60 416.58 409.12 402.49 406.44 412.20 422.95 434.76 440.84 454.29 476.20 495.08 504.22 0.00 -0.02 -0.02 0.01 0.01 0.03 0.03 0.01 0.03 0.05 0.04 0.02 0.01 1.37 1.37 1.35 1.32 1.34 1.36 1.39 1.43 1.45 1.49 1.57 1.63 1.66 76.98 82.02 87.55 92.69 95.30 98.42 100.61 100.71 100.00 100.75 101.84 104.34 107.60 363.71 426.73 399.75 377.61 314.78 304.81 298.17 322.70 330.00 327.56 368.24 407.34 418.20 2.01 1.99 2.50 2.67 2.85 3.21 3.32 2.45 2.03 1.98 2.12 1.82 1.87 0.74 0.86 0.81 0.76 0.64 0.62 0.60 0.65 0.67 0.66 0.74 0.82 0.85 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 450 450 450 450 475 566 581 613 635 662 509.86 510.50 523.51 532.09 543.05 0.00 0.03 0.02 0.02 -1.00 1.68 1.68 1.72 1.75 1.79 111.03 113.90 117.09 119.34 122 405.29 395.08 384.32 377.07 390 1.76 1.86 1.82 1.61 1.69 0.82 0.80 0.78 0.76 0.79 1997 500 697 1998 525 738 Frankfurt Statistical Data Global Property INDEX Frankfurt CDAX Holding Index CDAX Holding Deflated CDAX Holding Index CPI Frankfurt Frankfurt Frankfurt Office Rents X rate Rental Deflated Index DM sq.m. p.m. 1970 34.00 1971 37.00 1972 25.00 44.00 1973 25.00 38.00 1974 27.00 47.00 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 25.00 22.00 25.00 27.00 30.00 30.00 30.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 32.00 40.00 45.00 50.00 60.00 80.00 90.00 75.00 65.00 62.50 57.50 55.00 46.00 46.00 51.00 55.00 51.00 53.00 58.00 75.00 80.00 85.00 130.00 140.00 100.00 130.00 180.00 155.00 162.00 157.00 220.00 210.00 218.00 260.00 1997 55.00 340.00 1998 55.00 509.31 74.84 75.22 72.12 77.11 80.99 72.13 71.10 73.18 89.90 92.85 96.33 144.18 155.47 110.78 142.20 191.58 160.64 162.00 149.44 200.47 186.27 189.87 223.13 1.00 0.96 1.03 1.08 0.96 0.95 0.97 1.20 1.23 1.28 1.92 2.07 1.47 1.89 2.55 2.14 2.15 1.99 2.67 2.48 2.52 2.97 45.43 0.00 3.66 61.15 63.78 66.14 67.91 70.71 74.54 79.26 83.43 86.16 88.24 90.16 90.05 90.27 91.42 93.96 96.49 100.00 105.06 109.74 112.74 114.82 116.52 40.88 34.49 37.80 39.76 42.43 40.25 37.85 38.36 37.14 36.27 35.49 44.42 49.85 54.69 63.86 82.91 90.00 71.39 59.23 55.44 50.08 47.20 2.46 2.52 2.32 2.01 1.83 1.82 2.26 2.43 2.55 2.85 2.94 2.17 1.80 1.76 1.88 1.62 1.66 1.56 1.65 1.62 1.43 1.50 1.00 0.84 0.92 0.97 1.04 0.98 0.93 0.94 0.91 0.89 0.87 1.09 1.22 1.34 1.56 2.03 2.20 1.75 1.45 1.36 1.23 1.15 Madrid Statistical Data Global Property INDEX Madrid GDP GDPDEF GDP Growth GDP CPI 2 Madrid Madrid Rents Def X-rate Madrid Rents Def Growth Ptas sq.m. p.m. 1970 2,630 22,205 28,867 29,530 30,086 30,745 31,096 30,919 30,331 30,675 31,240 31,797 32,291 34,020 36,144 38,306 40,233 41,969 43,396 44,084 43,463 44,069 45,406 46,289 70.00 12 1971 1972 1973 400 1974 700 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 750 825 925 1,000 1,200 1,400 1,500 1,550 1,450 1,600 1,600 2,250 2,700 4,000 4,750 5,500 5,500 4,250 2,750 2,500 2,500 2,750 6,038 7,266 9,220 11,285 13,201 15,168 17,045 19,723 22,532 25,520 28,201 32,324 36,144 40,159 45,044 50,145 54,927 59,105 60,934 64,699 69,779 73,666 1997 3,000 77,792 1998 3,000 82,148 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.01 -0.01 -0.02 0.01 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.05 0.06 0.06 0.05 0.04 0.03 0.02 -0.01 0.01 0.03 0.02 1.00 1.02 1.04 1.07 1.08 1.07 1.05 1.06 1.08 1.10 1.12 1.18 1.25 1.33 1.39 1.45 1.50 1.53 1.51 1.53 1.57 1.60 21 25 31 37 42 49 56 64 72 80 87 95 100 105 112 119 127 134 140 147 154 159 3,585 3,353 3,018 2,724 2,827 2,854 2,669 2,411 2,010 1,994 1,832 2,368 2,700 3,815 4,243 4,603 4,345 3,170 1,962 1,703 1,627 1,728 57.41 66.90 75.96 76.67 67.13 71.70 92.32 109.86 143.43 160.76 170.04 140.05 123.48 116.49 118.38 101.93 103.91 102.38 127.26 133.96 124.69 126.66 1.00 0.94 0.84 0.76 0.79 0.80 0.74 0.67 0.56 0.56 0.51 0.66 0.75 1.06 1.18 1.28 1.21 0.88 0.55 0.47 0.45 0.48 Milan Statistical Data Global Property INDEX Milan Lit GDP GDPDEF GDP Growth GDP CPI 2 Milan Property Index Milan Property Index Deflated Milan Property Index Milan Rents Deflated Milan Xrate Milan Office Rental Index sq.m. p.a. 1970 67.13 517.97 138.59 174.58 212.71 251.00 623.28 673.51 698.78 735.51 0.08 0.04 0.05 12.96 625.00 22.24 25.92 30.44 34.13 652.85 832.34 882.39 848.66 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 190,000 209,000 235,000 255,000 307.82 385.33 461.05 542.12 631.61 786.87 812.18 824.99 833.50 847.18 0.07 0.03 0.02 0.01 0.02 1.00 1.02 1.03 1.04 39.12 47.44 55.89 65.04 74.55 400476.16 373976.59 361307.11 342033.48 830.86 856.45 1136.77 1352.51 1518.85 1.00 0.93 0.90 0.85 1984 1985 285,000 300,000 722.81 810.08 874.65 897.60 0.03 0.03 1.08 1.11 82.64 90.25 344870.50 332411.05 1756.96 1909.44 0.86 0.83 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 329,000 393,000 467,000 650,000 750,000 700,000 650,000 550,000 500,000 450,000 400,000 898.29 982.76 1090.02 1191.96 1310.66 1427.57 1502.49 1550.30 1638.51 1770.95 1863.42 940.80 982.76 1037.00 1067.56 1102.26 1129.43 1131.24 1117.22 1135.08 1165.69 1179.78 0.05 0.04 0.06 0.03 0.03 0.02 0.00 -0.01 0.02 0.03 0.01 1.16 1.21 1.28 1.31 1.36 1.39 1.39 1.38 1.40 1.44 1.45 95.48 100.00 105.11 111.65 118.91 126.40 132.82 138.76 144.35 151.92 157.95 344569.09 393000.00 444283.92 582161.85 630749.99 553809.94 489391.23 3%358.18 346375.60 296203.93 253251.09 1490.81 1296.07 1301.63 1372.09 1198.10 1240.61 1232.41 1573.67 1612.44 1628.93 1542.95 0.86 0.98 1.11 1.45 1.58 1.38 1.22 0.99 0.86 0.74 0.63 1997 400,000 1941.68 1998 400,000 2027.11 40.00 40.00 36.60 49.60 49.30 56.00 37.00 33.46 16.66 22.60 1.00 0.95 0.82 1.04 0.98 1.05 0.67 0.58 0.27 0.36 40.00 38.05 32.78 41.71 39.00 42.16 26.66 23.18 10.97 14.31 38.60 _ i i Geneva Statistical Data GDP GDPDEF Geneva Global Property INDEX GDP Growth GDP CPI 2 Geneva Rents Deflated Geneva X- Geneva rate Rents Deflated Growth SFr sq.m. p.a. 1970 92 187.70 200.41 199.57 202.35 208.32 210.09 216.98 221.01 221.89 224.17 227.82 235.45 249.48 257.37 266.29 279.25 286.47 284.61 280.66 277.54 281.07 281.74 278.00 48.81 0.00 4.37 70.67 71.88 72.81 73.58 76.26 79.33 84.48 89.25 91.90 94.58 97.84 98.57 100.00 101.86 105.08 110.76 117.24 121.99 126.03 127.10 129.40 130.45 0.00 0.00 0.00 475.70 458.96 504.24 473.51 448.16 586.49 714.73 766.58 862.30 950.00 1178.09 1142.02 902.83 852.98 737.78 714.09 629.45 540.97 498.28 2.58 2.50 2.40 1.79 1.66 1.68 1.96 2.03 2.10 2.35 2.46 1.80 1.49 1.46 1.64 1.39 1.43 1.41 1.48 1.37 1.18 1.24 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 350 350 400 400 400 539 676 750 850 950 1,200 1,200 1,000 1,000 900 900 800 700 650 142 143 147 153 160 172 187 198 206 215 230 246 257 271 293 317 334 342 350 357 365 363 1997 600 366 1998 600 374 0.00 0.01 0.03 0.01 0.03 0.02 0.00 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.06 0.03 0.03 0.05 0.03 -0.01 -0.01 -0.01 0.01 0.00 -0.01 1.00 1.01 1.04 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.13 1.20 1.24 1.28 1.34 1.38 1.37 1.35 1.33 1.35 1.35 1.33 1.00 0.96 1.06 1.00 0.94 1.23 1.50 1.61 1.81 2.00 2.48 2.40 1.90 1.79 1.55 1.50 1.32 1.14 1.05 New York Statistical Data Global New York CPI GNP Property MT INDEX GNP Deflated GNP Growth GNP NCREIF NCREIF NCREIF N.Y. Deflated Property Rents Index Deflated New York Office Rental Index US$ sq.ft. p.a. 1.18 25.64 27.50 26.19 23.40 1.00 1.07 1.02 0.91 1.12 23.53 0.92 1.10 24.56 0.96 0.07 1.18 24.14 0.94 3333.33 0.05 1.23 30.00 1.17 2300.00 2600.00 2900.00 3200.00 3175.00 3500.00 3950.00 4250.00 4500.00 4800.00 5000.00 5500.00 5800.00 6000.00 6200.00 6500.00 7000.00 7400.00 7600.00 8000.00 3593.75 3714.29 3536.59 3555.56 3239.80 3500.00 3872.55 3935.19 4128.44 4102.56 4166.67 4471.54 4461.54 4379.56 4428.57 4513.89 4697.99 4868.42 4840.76 5000.00 0.08 0.03 -0.05 0.01 -0.09 0.08 0.11 0.02 0.05 -0.01 0.02 0.07 0.00 -0.02 0.01 0.02 0.04 0.04 -0.01 0.03 1.33 1.37 1.31 1.32 1.20 1.30 1.43 1.46 1.53 1.52 1.54 1.65 1.65 1.62 1.64 1.67 1.74 1.80 1.79 1.85 2.90 3.81 5.54 2.96 2.49 1.75 3.35 2.08 2.03 1.83 1.84 1.75 1.38 0.05 -0.03 0.77 1.31 2.11 2.40 2.32 4.53 5.44 6.76 3.29 2.54 1.75 3.28 1.93 1.86 1.56 1.53 1.42 1.06 0.04 -0.02 0.53 0.88 1.39 1.53 1.45 1.00 1.20 1.49 0.73 0.56 0.39 0.72 0.43 0.41 0.35 0.34 0.31 0.23 0.01 0.00 0.12 0.19 0.31 0.34 0.32 31.25 41.43 54.88 66.67 58.67 55.00 53.92 48.61 45.87 42.74 45.00 43.90 42.31 37.96 33.57 32.19 31.71 31.09 30.57 33.44 1.22 1.62 2.14 2.60 2.29 2.15 2.10 1.90 1.79 1.67 1.76 1.71 1.65 1.48 1.31 1.26 1.24 1.21 1.19 1.30 8340.70 5116.99 0.02 1.89 3.89 2.39 0.53 1970 1971 1972 1973 10.00 11.00 11.00 11.00 39.00 40.00 42.00 47.00 1053.80 1100.00 1200.00 1500.00 2702.05 2750.00 2857.14 3191.49 0.02 0.04 0.12- 1974 12.00 51.00 1550.00 3039.22 -0.05 1975 14.00 57.00 1700.00 2982.46 -0.02 1976 14.00 58.00 1850.00 3189.66 1977 18.00 60.00 2000.00 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 20.00 29.00 45.00 60.00 57.50 55.00, 55.00 52.50 50.00 50.00 54.00 54.00 55.00 52.00 47.00 46.35 47.25 47.25 48.00 53.50 64.00 70.00 82.00 90.00 98.00 100.00 102.00 108.00 109.00 117.00 120.00 123.00 130.00 137.00 140.00 144.00 149.00 152.00 157.00 160.00 163.00 1998 1.00 1.02 1.06 Toronto Statistical Data Global Property INDEX Toronto GDP GDPDE F GDP Growth GDP CPI 2 Toronto Toronto Toronto Rents Rents x-rate Deflated Deflated Growth 29.69 1.045 C$ sq.ft. p.a. 1970 88.46 297.94 402.20 431.70 440.07 447.99 469.58 478.49 488.68 463.95 474.31 498.75 515.71 523.31 546.78 577.60 590.69 579.26 553.68 556.86 565.12 591.36 601.06 608.21 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 10.30 11.40 11.40 12.50 14.00 19.60 27.30 27.30 31.00 32.00 33.40 34.30 36.70 39.90 42.00 40.00 38.00 31.00 25.00 20.00 18.00 20.00 170.11 196.29 216.09 239.58 274.09 307.73 353.45 371.82 402.23 441.31 474.34 501.43 546.78 600.84 645.15 662.81 669.11 683.09 705.99 740.13 768.58 789.86 1997 24.00 841.20 1998 885.78 0.07 0.02 0.02 0.05 0.02 0.02 -0.05 0.02 0.05 0.03 0.01 0.04 0.06 0.02 -0.02 -0.04 0.01 0.01 0.05 0.02 0.01 1.00 1.07 1.09 1.11 1.17 1.19 1.22 1.15 1.18 1.24 1.28 1.30 1.36 1.44 1.47 1.44 1.38 1.38 1.41 1.47 1.49 1.51 42.29 45.47 49.10 53.48 58.37 64.31 72.33 80.14 84.80 88.48 91.98 95.82 100.00 104.02 109.22 114.42 120.85 122.67 124.93 125.16 127.87 129.87 24.35 25.07 23.22 23.37 23.99 30.48 37.74 34.06 36.56 36.17 36.31 35.80 36.70 38.36 38.45 34.96 31.44 25.27 20.01 15.98 14.08 15.40 1.017 0.986 1.063 1.141 1.171 1.169 1.199 1.234 1.232 1.295 1.365 1.390 1.326 1.231 1.184 1.167 1.146 1.209 1.290 1.366 1.372 1.363 1.00 1.03 0.95 0.96 0.98 1.25 1.55 1.40 1.50 1.49 1.49 1.47 1.51 1.58 1.58 1.44 1.29 1.04 0.82 0.66 0.58 0.63 Sydney Statistical Data Global Property INDEX Sydney ASX Property GDP GDPDE GDP F Growth GDP CPI 2 ASX Sydney sydney ASX x-rate Property Property Rents Index Deflated Index Deflated Sydney Office Rental Index A$ sq.m. p.a. 1970 129.0 1971 129.0 1972 108.0 1973 91.0 35.1 166.6 1.00 21.1 612.0 0.893 1.00 1974 91.0 1975 1976 97.0 102.0 76.6 87.6 223.2 224.8 0.01 1.34 1.35 34.3 39.0 282.6 261.8 0.764 0.818 0.46 0.43 1977 1978 108.0 120.0 95.3 108.5 217.8 229.7 -0.03 0.05 1.31 1.38 43.8 47.2 246.8 254.1 0.902 0.874 0.40 0.42 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 150.0 225.0 300.0 325.0 335.0 365.0 390.0 472.0 525.0 600.0 700.0 725.0 690.0 650.0 595.0 590.0 610.0 620.0 490.0 490.0 570.0 520.0 640.0 840.0 760.0 860.0 1050.0 1040.0 970.0 960.0 960.0 980.0 1050.0 1100.0 1090.0 1080.0 123.3 140.6 158.7 172.5 195.8 217.1 240.8 264.7 299.3 339.3 370.2 378.7 387.1 404.8 416.6 443.9 473.1 501.6 239.3 247.9 255.1 249.4 257.1 274.3 284.9 287.1 299.3 316.4 321.0 306.1 303.1 313.9 317.2 331.8 337.9 349.1 0.04 0.04 0.03 -0.02 0.03 0.07 0.04 0.01 0.04 0.06 0.01 -0.05 -0.01 0.04 0.01 0.05 0.02 0.03 1.44 1.49 1.53 1.50 1.54 1.65 1.71 1.72 1.80 1.90 1.93 1.84 1.82 1.88 1.90 1.99 2.03 2.10 51.5 56.7 62.2 69.2 76.2 79.2 84.5 92.2 100.0 107.2 115.3 123.7 127.7 129.0 131.3 133.8 140.0 143.7 291.2 396.6 482.1 469.9 439.9 461.1 461.5 512.1 525.0 559.5 606.9 586.0 540.3 504.0 453.1 441.0 0.895 0.878 0.870 0.986 1.110 1.140 1.432 1.496 1.428 1.280 1.265 1.281 1.284 1.362 1.471 1.368 0.48 0.65 0.79 0.77 0.72 0.75 0.75 0.84 0.86 0.91 0.99 0.96 0.88 0.82 0.74 0.72 435.7 1.349 0.71 431.6 1.278 0.71 1997 650.0 1130.0 526.6 1 1340 549.2 1 1998 951.2 863.8 916.0 751.9 840.4 1061.1 899.4 933.0 1050.0 969.9 841.0 775.9 751.7 759.9 799.6 822.1 778.5 751.8 1.0 0.9 1.0 0.8 0.9 1.1 0.9 1.0 1.1 1.0 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.9 0.8 0.8 Singapore Statistical Data Global Property INDEX Singapor Singapore Singapore Singapore e Property Property Property Index Index Index Deflated GDP GDPDE F GDP Growth GDP CPI 2 Singapore Singapore Singapore X-rate Office Rents Rental Deflated Index S$ sq.ft. p.m. 1970 1971 1.41 1972 1.65 1973 1.89 1974 2.12 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 2.36 2.36 2.83 2.47 2.71 4.42 7.25 8.25 7.07 5.30 4.95 3.54 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 4.36 5.30 9.02 11.96 10.85 6.26 6.03 7.48 9.59 9.90 17.00 34.00 40.00 25.00 80.00 120.00 319.00 325.00 354.00 456.00 1997 9.10 192.00 1998 8.30 17.00 33.49 38.50 23.26 71.95 105.54 274.29 271.04 290.23 368.76 1.00 1.97 2.26 1.37 4.23 6.21 16.13 15.94 17.07 21.69 5.80 12.62 13.44 14.65 16.04 17.83 20.52 25.09 29.34 32.67 36.73 40.05 38.92 39.26 18.75 20.82 22.09 23.41 25.90 29.17 31.53 33.79 37.54 39.89 38.59 39.47 0.11 0.06 0.06 0.11 0.13 0.08 0.07 0.11 0.06 -0.03 0.02 43.57 51.64 59.34 67.88 75.27 80.94 94.22 108.51 121.08 132.63 43.57 50.87 57.11 63.14 67.70 71.19 81.02 90.49 99.27 107.26 0.10 0.17 0.12 0.11 0.07 0.05 0.14 0.12 0.10 0.08 144.96 153.52 1 45.98 0.00 3.06 1.00 1.11 1.18 1.25 1.38 1.56 1.68 1.80 2.00 2.13 2.06 2.11 71.71 70.38 72.61 76.15 79.25 86.01 93.05 96.69 97.85 100.40 100.88 99.48 3.29 3.35 3.90 3.24 3.42 5.14 7.79 8.53 7.23 5.28 4.91 3.56 2.37 2.47 2.44 2.27 2.17 2.14 2.11 2.14 2.11 2.13 2.20 2.18 1.00 1.02 1.18 0.99 1.04 1.56 2.37 2.59 2.20 1.60 1.49 1.08 2.32 2.71 3.05 3.37 3.61 3.80 4.32 4.83 5.30 5.72 100.00 101.52 103.90 107.50 111.18 113.70 116.30 119.91 121.97 123.66 4.36 5.22 8.68 11.13 9.76 5.51 5.18 6.24 7.86 8.01 2.11 2.01 1.95 1.81 1.73 1.63 1.62 1.53 1.42 1.41 1.32 1.59 2.64 3.38 2.97 1.67 1.58 1.90 2.39 2.43 Tokyo Statistical Global Property INDEX Data Tokyo Inner TOPIX Office Rents REAL ESTATE INDEX TOPIX Index Deflate TOPIX Property Index GDP GDPDEF GDP Growth GDP CPI Tokyo Rents Deflated Tokyo X-rate Tokyo Office Rental Index Yen tsubo p.m. 1970 35 94 77 87 99 110 120 131 141 149 157 167 179 190 199 212 226 242 259 270 279 286 290 304 123 126 134 142 149 151 155 160 165 171 180 190 199 210 219 228 236 242 247 251 255 267 37 0 360.00 63 69 74 77 80 87 91 93 95 97 99 100 100 101 103 106 110 111 113 114 114 114 36,597 36,366 32,267 28,400 38,248 35,870 36,369 35,401 40,649 39,755 41,293 44,677 59,831 64,023 77,687 75,382 78,125 61,587 39,863 35,189 28,177 28,139 296.79 296.55 268.51 210.44 219.14 226.74 220.54 249.08 237.51 237.52 238.54 168.52 144.64 128.15 137.96 144.79 134.71 126.65 111.20 102.21 94.06 108.78 1971 1972 1973 19,000 1974 21,000 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 23,000 25,000 24,000 22,000 30,742 31,073 33,056 33,056 38,676 38,676 40,989 44,626 59,831 64,459 79,996 79,996 85,615 68,657 45,000 40,000 32,000 32,000 300 400 450 700 1,300 1,700 1,650 2,100 1,400 1,300 700 800 830 700 1,000 1997 34,000 900 308 800 308 1998 302 400 450 695 1,262 1,602 1,506 1,884 1,240 1,144 616 703 730 616 879 1.00 1.33 1.49 2.30 4.18 5.30 4.98 6.23 4.10 3.78 2.04 2.33 2.42 2.04 2.91 0.03 0.06 0.06 0.05 0.01 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.04 0.05 0.06 0.04 0.06 0.04 0.04 0.03 0.03 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.05 1.00 1.03 1.09 1.15 1.21 1.23 1.26 1.30 1.34 1.39 1.47 1.55 1.62 1.71 1.78 1.86 1.92 1.97 2.01 2.04 2.08 2.17 1.00 0.99 0.88 0.78 1.05 0.98 0.99 0.97 1.11 1.09 1.13 1.22 1.63 1.75 2.12 2.06 2.13 1.68 1.09 0.96 0.77 0.77 Jakarta Statistical Global Property INDEX Jakarta Data CPI GDP GDP DEF GDP DEF Growth GDP Jakarta Jakarta Jakarta Jakarta Jakarta Jakarta X-rate Office Property Property Property Rents Rental Index Deflated Index Index Deflated Index US$ sq.m. p.m. 1970 11.31 3.52 31.18 0 365 415.00 415.00 415.00 442.05 623.06 626.99 631.76 661.42 909.26 1025.94 1110.58 1282.56 1643.85 1685.70 1770.06 1842.81 1950.32 2029.92 2087 2161 2249 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 16.00 13.00 14.00 15.00 16.50 27.56 33.04 36.68 39.66 46.11 13.34 16.32 20.08 24.00 34.34 48.40 49.40 54.75 60.52 74.49 1.00 1.02 1.13 1.25 1.54 58.05 0.02 0.11 0.11 0.23 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 15.00 16.00 21.00 18.00 13.25 9.47 8.00 7.21 14.00 17.06 25.75 19.33 14.00 13.00 14.00 13.00 54.42 61.08 66.87 74.75 82.57 86.47 91.51 100.00 108.04 114.98 123.96 135.63 145.84 159.97 173.59 189.97 48.91 58.42 62.65 77.68 89.75 96.85 102.47 124.51 149.67 179.58 210.87 249.97 282.40 329.78 382.22 452.38 89.89 95.65 93.68 103.91 108.70 112.00 111.97 124.51 138.53 156.19 170.11 184.31 193.63 206.15 220.18 238.13 0.21 0.06 -0.02 0.11 0.05 0.03 0.00 0.11 0.11 0.13 0.09 0.08 0.05 0.06 0.07 0.08 1.86 1.98 1.94 2.15 2.25 2.31 2.31 2.57 2.86 3.23 3.51 3.81 4.00 4.26 4.55 4.92 27.57 26.20 31.40 24.08 16.05 10.95 8.74 7.21 12.96 14.84 20.77 14.25 9.60 8 8 7 1996 12.00 205.11 528.96 257.89 0.08 5.33 1997 13.50 1998 1 1 100 130 58 68 143 70 75 35.8 1.00 1.19 1.21 1 1 2342 1.00 0.47 0.45 0.54 0.41 0.28 0.19 0.15 0.12 0.22 0.26 0.36 0.25 0.17 0.14 0.14 0.12 Kuala Lumpur Statistical Data GDP Kuala Global Property Lumpur INDEX GDPDE F CPI 2 Kuala Lumpur Rents Deflated Kuala Lumpur Office Rental Kuala Lumpur Property Index Kuala Lumpur Propert y Index Index RM sq.m. p.m. 11.31 26.54 4.40 27.56 15.96 4.50 33.04 13.62 1977 1978 1979 4.63 4.75 4.90 36.68 39.66 46.11 12.62 11.98 10.63 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 5.01 7.00 8.50 8.55 7.00 54.42 61.08 66.87 74.75 82.57 9.21 11.46 12.71 11.44 8.48 1985 1986 6.55 6.35 86.47 91.51 7.57 6.94 1987 6.05 100.00 6.05 1988 5.85 108.04 5.41 1989 10.30 114.98 8.96 1990 16.34 123.96 13.18 135.63 14.08 145.84 159.97 173.59 189.97 205.11 14.98 15.38 15.76 15.85 14.67 1970 3.00 1971 3.10 1972 3.50 1973 4.00 1974 4.25 1975 1976 1991 19.10 __ 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 21.85 24.60 27.36 30.11 30.10 __ 1200 1800 2700 2300 2400 1.00 1.50 2.25 1.92 2.00 1997 2100 1.75 1998 800 1.00 1.03 1.05 1.06 0.98