Research into practice. Judgment into stewardship.
A disciplined reading path for families who govern capital. Each attributed research edition sits beside an original practical companion, with a separate passage agent for each work.
Family-office research is complemented by relevant studies of family businesses, capital markets, property and financial decisions. Each article states the setting actually studied. An application to a family office is an editorial inference, not a claim that every original study sampled family offices.
Marcelo Cajias; Philipp Freudenreich; Anna Freudenreich; Wolfgang Schäfers
Journal of Business Economics · 2020-08-16
Separates price and time-based liquidity development across rental and investment markets, useful for testing whether geographic diversification also supports family cash obligations.
Regional price growth and the speed of letting or selling describe different dimensions of property performance. This companion proposes a regional evidence review that keeps those dimensions separate, tests the dependence of a family portfolio on common local drivers, and translates the result into financing and monitoring decisions without treating a historical cluster as a buy recommendation.
Marcelo Cajias; Philipp Freudenreich; Anna Freudenreich
Journal of Business Economics · 2020-06-03
Examines slow and fast portions of rental marketing time rather than relying on a single average, relevant to cash planning and operational review of family-owned housing.
An average marketing period can conceal the properties that create the largest cash-flow interruptions. Building on censored-quantile research in German rental markets, this companion proposes a lease-up review that preserves unresolved listings, distinguishes local markets, and tests the upper tail of vacancy duration before capital or distributions are committed.
Listed property securities and property funds provide different routes to real-estate exposure, but their liquidity cannot be inferred from the asset-class label alone. This companion turns German evidence on illiquidity premia into a wrapper-specific review of tradability, redemption terms, valuation and the family’s actual cash obligations.
The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics · 2021-03-24
Investigates asymmetric demand-supply adjustment across cycles, informing negotiation records and scrutiny of changing buyer-seller bargaining conditions.
A property's last valuation cannot describe the current willingness of buyers and sellers to transact. This companion proposes a negotiation review that separates reservation prices, observable market activity and family financing constraints, using research on asymmetric demand-supply adjustment to challenge mechanical extrapolation across property cycles.
The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics · 2022-11-15
Combines spatial and hedonic analysis of a Vietnamese flood event; useful for separating market discounts, legal status, physical exposure and recovery responsibilities.
Observed market repricing after a flood and the physical costs of future flooding are different quantities. This companion translates evidence from Ho Chi Minh City into a property-level dossier that separates hazard, damage, legal status, market response and recovery obligations before a family office treats a discounted property as an opportunity.
Examines information asymmetry, housing prices and lender responses to disclosure mandates, challenging simplistic assumptions that transparency has a uniform price effect.
Better information can change housing prices and credit supply in ways that differ from a simple risk-discount narrative. This companion proposes a disclosure review that treats transparency as an obligation and a decision input, while resisting the unsupported use of an average research estimate as a property-level valuation uplift.
Henri Gruhl; Johannes Brehm; Arijit Ghosh; Philipp Breidenbach; Nils aus dem Moore
Environmental and Resource Economics · 2025-07-18
Shows heterogeneous housing-market responses after a salient flood, motivating review of exposed holdings even where market prices have not visibly adjusted.
A market that shows little reaction to a major flood elsewhere may still contain material physical exposure. This companion develops a regional flood-risk review that separates hazard, recent experience and observed price response, drawing on evidence that German housing markets updated unevenly after the 2021 Western European flood.
The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics · 2020-03-18
Investigates interaction of energy efficiency, purchasing power and green awareness in rental pricing, informing more disciplined retrofit assumptions.
Energy efficiency, tenant purchasing power and environmental preferences can interact in rental pricing, but an observed rent association is not a retrofit business case. This companion proposes a decision process that separates building performance, resident costs, lawful rent assumptions and capital recovery before a family commits to an energy project.
The economic setting around a retail property can matter as much as its own lease. Drawing on Dutch evidence linking tenant mix with high-street rents, this companion proposes a district-level diligence and stewardship process that examines complementary uses, ownership fragmentation and tenant viability without assuming that greater diversity always produces higher returns.
Machine learning can reveal structured appraisal errors without acquiring the authority to determine value or approve a transaction. This companion proposes a human-led validation protocol for family offices that want to use model-assisted appraisal challenges while controlling data leakage, weak comparability, misleading explanations and unreviewed overrides.
A circular-building framework becomes useful when a project team can turn its concepts into choices, evidence and responsibilities. This companion draws on action design research in a Dutch historic office building to propose a practical workshop process for family owners considering reuse, with explicit treatment of technical constraints, regulatory uncertainty and future adaptation.
Property listings are timely and accessible, but they are not equivalent to completed transactions. This companion proposes a data and decision firewall that lets family offices use listings for market monitoring while preventing advertised prices, duplicate advertisements and unverified outcomes from silently becoming portfolio values.
This expansion has added 206 works toward the requested 4,000: 2,000 source editions and 2,000 practical companions. The 104 works already in the journal are excluded from that target.
5.1% of the requested expansion published.
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