Real Estate Investment Trusts in Europe

Part I. Setting the Context

1. The Economics of REITs
Ramón Sotelo

2. The Global Real Estate Investment Trust Market: Development and Growth
Simon Stevenson

3. The REIT in Europe: History, Opportunities, Challenges
Fraser Hughes, Maikel Speelman, Dominic Turnbull

4. The Role of REITs in Strategic Investment Portfolios
Steven A. Wechsler

Part II. The Experience of Mature REIT Markets

5. The Development and Maturing of the US REIT Sector
Simon Stevenson

6. REITs in Australia: Moving forward from the GFC
Graeme Newell

7. Asian REITS: Growing into Maturity
Joseph T. L. Ooi, Woei-Chyuan Wong

Part III. European REITs

8. The French REIT Market: The SIIC Regime
Ingrid Nappi-Choulet

9. UK REITs - Are they delivering what was expected?
Karen Sieracki

10. German REITs: Limited Market Dynamics or Future Growth?
Bernhard Funk, Ramón Sotelo

11. Fifteen Years of Italian Real Estate Investment Funds Across Different Market Cycles
Laura Gabrielli

12. Developing Benelux REITs
Dirk Brounen

13. Spanish REITs: The New Regulated SOCIMIs
Paloma Taltavull Paz, Irene Peña Cuenca

14. REITs: The Bulgarian Perspective
Kamena Valcheva

15. The Greek REIT Industry: Current State and Its Post Crisis Evolution
Theodore Mitrakos, Vasiliki Vlachostergiou, Sotiris Tsolacos

16. Turkish REICs: Real Estate Investment or Real Estate Development Companies?
Dilek Pekdemir

Avainsanat: Economics/Management Science, Finance/Investment/Banking, Business Taxation/Tax Law, Financial Economics