Quote Originally Posted by Antonio1986 View Post
"The Yield Capitalization Method is more accurate than the Direct Capitalization Method due to the future cash flows and the economic – useful life of the project should be explicitly stated. Given that the Statistical Services in Cyprus do not possesses a satisfactory amount of both time series and cross sectional data, it is impossible to run regressions that will produce unbiased projections. Having that said, the Yield Capitalization Method was not used in this research."
"Due to" is fairly versatile and can be used in place of "because," though it's not all that bad to use "because." I think as long as you reduce redundancy you'll be fine.
"Having that said," is a good option to replace "for this reason" with. You could also say something like "Given the aforementioned information." There are plenty of options at your disposal. Your choices are OK, but it's better not to repeat the word "this," since you're stating it later on in the sentence. You could say "Incidentally," as well.

To stray away from your original question...
I think the first sentence should be reworded. Your em dash doesn't make much sense here. You split midway through and start a new thought without finishing your first one. Usually the em dash is used to break a sentence, but still continue the clause whilst keeping on topic.