100 Years of Commercial Real Estate Prices in Manhattan

William C. Wheaton, Mark S. Baranski and Cesarina A. Templeton

Real Estate Economics, 2009, vol. 37, issue 1, pages 69-83

Abstract: This article is able to put together a database of 86 repeat-sales transactions for office properties in lower and midtown Manhattan spanning the years from 1899 to 1999. Using this very limited database, decade-interval changes in real property prices are estimated-with varying degrees of precision. Our conclusions are two fold. First, adjusting for inflation, commercial office property values were 30% lower in 1999 than they were in 1899. Second, within any decade values often rise and fall by 20-50% in real terms. With these results, the long-term historic return to New York commercial property must mostly comprise yield with capital gains limited to general inflation. Other historical studies consistent with this conclusion are reviewed. Copyright (c) 2009 American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association.

Date: 2009
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