The special issue International Journal of Managerial Finance on real estate looks at various markets and assets and generally finds that while real estate assets offer the investor opportunities for diversification across various markets while being efficient in terms of risk and return. Bai, Chang and Devine (2014) find that larger REITs were better able to pursue profits as they de-leveraged during the recent economic cycle. Rodriguez and Romero (2014) find that global REIT funds (based in the USA) were able to earn excess returns for one of their test periods but it was associated with geo