But in both measures this price is based on the cost of renting a similar property, using a method that many economists reckon is distinctly dodgy.

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But when price trends for cheaper and more expensive houses diverge, the effect of the mortgage lenders' method is to give the same weight to each type of property.

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Another method is to swap the total return on the NCREIF index broken down by property sector, allowing investors to take a position in an alternate property sector in which they may not own properties, thus allowing investors to swap the returns from office related real estate for retail real estate.

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Historically, virtually all of the major changes in the method of electing the President, including ending the requirement that only men who owned substantial property could vote and 48 current state-by-state winner-take-all laws, have come about by state legislative action.

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