Applications of Real Options in the Real Estate Market Focusing the City of Rio de Janeiro

Priscilla Yung Medeiros ()
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Brazilian Review of Finance, 2003, vol. 1, issue 1, 45-87

Abstract: An investment opportunity in the real state market can be compared with an option and, because of this analogy, we can make use of the real options theory to determinate not only the best timing to begin a new property development, but also to determine the optimal density to develop in a specific property. To investigate these two main decisions, we are going to base our research on the model developed by Williams (1991) and extend it in a way to include taxes and a discount in the net cash inflow caused by the times spent in the construction process. An empirical analysis of the of the residential real estate market in the city of Rio de Janeiro is going to be developed in a way to verify the compatibility of the theoretical model developed here according to the reality of this market. We found that the extensions proposed to the basic model of Williams (1991) had significant effects in the theoretical model. We could also confirm empirically that the theoretical results are compatible to the reality of this market.

Keywords: real options; real estate market; timing; density; taxes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D81 G31 R38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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