Daily Appraisal of Commercial Real Estate A New Mixed Frequency Approach

We present a mixed frequency repeat sales model for commercial real estate, taking into account changes in net operating income between the date of buying and selling the property. Moreover, we relate monthly private market index asset returns to lags, up to one year, of daily REIT returns. The underlying REIT model enables us to interpolate the monthly private market index returns on a daily basis, and to predict the private market index asset returns going forward. The mixed frequency repeat sales model facilitates daily appraisal of commercial real estate portfolios. We apply the model on sale prices (all property types, and apartments only) in the period January 2006 up to July 2020, provided to us by Real Capital Analytics. We find that the mixed frequency repeat sales model reduces one-month-ahead forecasts errors and index revisions, compared to a benchmark model without daily REIT returns.