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This week Ortec Finance visits Delft and Groningen to meet students and show our career opportunities on May 10, 11 and 12.

At Ortec Finance, as part of the processes that we have in place to better understand what our clients think of us, our products, and our services, we conduct an annual customer satisfaction survey in the months of October and November. We are proud to announce that the survey shows very high scores for the fourth year in a row!

How do changes in the age structure of the population impact housing markets? This paper uses centuries of data to show that demographic changes are a key determinant of house prices.

How do pandemics affect urban housing markets? This paper studies historical outbreaks of the plague in 17th-century Amsterdam and cholera in 19th-century Paris to answer this question.

In this paper Dorinth van Dijk and Marc Francke examine co-movements in private commercial real estate index returns and market liquidity in the US (apartment, office, retail) and for eighteen global cities, using data from Real Capital Analytics over the period 2005–2018.

In this paper Arno van der Vlist, Marc Francke and Dennis Schoenmaker analyze whether agglomerations of economic activity result in higher rents for users.

This paper studies unobserved heterogeneity in hedonic price models, arising from missing property and locational characteristics.

This paper proposes that the advice is useful, but only in a buyer’s market, in which buyers counter below the asking price. In a seller’s market, in which buyers counter above the asking price, sellers who wish to receive high counteroffers and sell for high prices should set round asking prices.

Each year, CIO asks a varied group of respected chief investment officers and allocators which consultants and advisors have “done right by them” for the current markets.