How Taxes and Required Returns Drove Commercial Real Estate Valuations over the Past Four Decades

John Duca, Patric H. Hendershott and David Ling ()

No 1703, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Abstract: We document the evolution of U.S. tax law regarding commercial real estate (CRE) since 1975, noting changes in income and capital gains tax rates and tax depreciation methods. The most prominent changes were the 1981 and 1986 Tax Acts, but numerous significant changes occurred in the last dozen years. We then compute the present value of tax depreciation per dollar of acquisition price and an effective tax rate for CRE. We explain the quarterly variation in CRE capitalization rates using an error correction framework and find that the long run estimates are statistically significant in the way theory would suggest. Moreover, the required financial asset return and the tax depreciation variable temporally predict (?cause?) capitalization rates in the long run, but not vice versa.

JEL-codes: G12 H20 H30 R30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47 pages
Date: 2017-01-27
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-his, nep-pbe, nep-pub and nep-ure
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.dallasfed.org/~/media/documents/research/papers/2017/wp1703.pdf Full text (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: How Taxes and Required Returns Drove Commercial Real Estate Valuations over the Past Four Decades (2017)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fip:feddwp:1703

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from

DOI: 10.24149/wp1703

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Amy Chapman ().