Jordan OwenReal Estate Liquidity vs. Returns
Is the Real Estate Market Capturing Shifting Market Demand?
Liquidity Bull Market Liquidity Bear Market
Background Information
What is liquidity? It is the ease at which an asset can be converted into cash. Research by Dorinth van Dijk and Marc Francke at MIT’s Center for Real Estate model real estate liquidity and correlate it to returns for 25 markets across the United States. They define liquidity as the spread between the reservation prices of the buyer and the seller^1. Their results are fascinating!
Total Returns Across 25 US Markets Liquidity Across 25 US Markets
Correlations Between Liquidity and Returns
Results
The graphs above illustrate the amount of returns and liquidity for the apartment, retail and office sectors across the 25 US markets since 2005. Liquidity is highly correlated, but Returns are much less correlated.
What This Means
Returns are less efficient because of the difficulty to accurately predict the demand and supply curve for real estate in real time. SquareFeet.ai quantifies the demand and supply curve for your real estate asset enabling you to capture the upside when market liquidity rises.