Resumen
The creation of property investment funds in Colombia has made portfolio diversification possible by allowing parties to invest in the property sector without buying and managing real estate directly. In recent years, the behavior of these funds has shown higher average profits and lower volatility than that of the market. This study applies the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and estimates various autoregressive models and models of conditional heteroscedasticity, in order to calculate the beta of these funds as an estimate of the property sector?s sensitivity to systematic risk. Results show that the risk level of the property sector is far lower than that of the market, suggesting that real estate projects have much lower capital costs than projects in other sectors.