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Book Determinants of Property Prices in Hong Kong SAR

Download or read book Determinants of Property Prices in Hong Kong SAR written by Mr.R. Sean Craig and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper uses an econometric model of residential property prices in Hong Kong SAR to assess the effectiveness of alternative policies in slowing the increase in property prices. The rapid rise in property prices is well explained by macroconomic fundamentals; real GDP per capital, real domestic credit, construction costs, land supply, and the real interest rate. Policy can influence the property market though land supply and prudential and tax policy, with the latter policies taking the form of a stamp duty on property transactions and a tighter loan-to-value ratio (LTV) on lending. Land supply is the most effective policy insturment for restraining property price increases but it operates with a significant lag. The LTV and stamp duty dampen speculative activity that drives up property prices. While these policies can slow the increase in the short run, they should be guided by their long run objectives of financial stability and counteracting speculation.

Book Handbook of Urban Segregation

Download or read book Handbook of Urban Segregation written by Sako Musterd and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-28 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Urban Segregation scrutinises key debates on spatial inequality in cities across the globe. It engages with multiple domains, including residential places, public spaces and the field of education. In addition it tackles crucial group-dimensions across race, class and culture as well as age groups, the urban rich, middle class, and gentrified households. This timely Handbook provides a key contribution to understanding what urban segregation is about, why it has developed, what its consequences are and how it is measured, conceptualised and framed.

Book Property Prices and Speculative Bubbles   Evidence from Hong Kong SAR

Download or read book Property Prices and Speculative Bubbles Evidence from Hong Kong SAR written by Christoph Duenwald and published by INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the determinants of residential property prices in Hong Kong SAR during 1980–98. It uses time-series analysis techniques to characterize price developments, establish empirical regularities, and provide measures of the deviations of actual price changes from “trend.” The analysis suggests that at the peak of the boom, in mid-1997, the level of property prices may have been 40–45 percent above levels suggested by developments in “fundamentals.” The analysis highlights the role of demand-side factors, and the data are not inconsistent with the notion that the property market may be subject to speculative bubbles.

Book The Determinants of Housing Market

Download or read book The Determinants of Housing Market written by Yin-ching Tse (Raymond) and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Determinants of House Prices in Nine Asia Pacific Economies

Download or read book Determinants of House Prices in Nine Asia Pacific Economies written by Eloisa T. Glindro and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spatial Autocorrelation and Liquidity in Hong Kong s Real Estate Market

Download or read book Spatial Autocorrelation and Liquidity in Hong Kong s Real Estate Market written by Chun-Wah Li and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Spatial Autocorrelation and Liquidity in Hong Kong's Real Estate Market" by Chun-wah, Li, 李振華, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Spatial autocorrelation is commonly found in the Hedonic Pricing model for real estate prices, but little attention has been paid to identify the causes behind. The primary objective of this research is to examine the causes of spatial autocorrelation in housing prices. Observed autocorrelation is often attributable to the omission of important location characteristics in the modelling process. Since it is practically impossible to exhaustively include all location characteristics, some variables may eventually be omitted, leaving spatially autocorrelated residuals in the Hedonic Pricing model. This thesis proposes a new source of spatial autocorrelation: real estate market liquidity. We hypothesize that liquidity affects the geographical boundary within which buyers and sellers search for price information. When the "immediate vicinity" of a property has few transactions, buyers and sellers may have to search for price information from more distant locations. Therefore, low liquidity in the vicinity of a property should strengthen the spatial autocorrelation of real estate prices. A Spatial - Liquidity Hedonic Pricing (SLHP) model is proposed to test the above hypothesis. The SLHP model generalizes traditional spatial autoregressive models by making the spatial process liquidity dependent. When applied to the apartment market in Hong Kong, the model is operationalized by defining "immediate vicinity" as the building where the subject unit locates. Furthermore, the SLHP model recognizes that past transactions may affect current transactions, but not vice versa, so the spatial weight matrix is simply lower triangular. Under this condition, we have shown that the Maximum Likelihood Estimation is equivalent to the Ordinary Least Squares Estimation. This greatly simplifies the estimation procedures and reduces the empirical analysis to a feasible scale. Based on 15 500 transactions of residential units in Taikooshing, Hong Kong from 1992 to 2006, we conclude that while positive spatial autocorrelation is present in housing prices, its magnitude decreases when liquidity, as measured by the past transaction volume in the immediate vicinity of a subject unit, is high. In addition, we found that current prices are spatially correlated with transactions occurred up to the last three months only, reflecting the relatively high information efficiency of Hong Kong's residential market. All these results are generally robust across a variety of distance, liquidity, and time weight specifications. This study establishes liquidity as a determinant of spatial autocorrelation in real estate prices. This is a new finding contributing to the economic literature on liquidity effects and technical literature on spatial estimation. Our results not only reveal the spatially dependent price formation process in the real estate market, but also have practical applications on the hedonic modelling of real estate prices for mass valuation and index construction. DOI: 10.5353/th_b4727800 Subjects: Real property - Prices - Statistical methods - China - Hong Kong

Book The Effects of Attributes on the Repeat Sales Pattern of Residential Property in Hong Kong

Download or read book The Effects of Attributes on the Repeat Sales Pattern of Residential Property in Hong Kong written by Ute S. L. Cheung and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been copious research work on the development of house price models and the construction of house price indices. However, results in some studies revealed that the accuracy of such indices could be subject to selection bias when using only information from a sample of sold properties to estimate value movements for the entire housing stock. In particular, estimated house price appreciation is usually systematically higher among properties that change hands more frequently. It therefore suggests that the determination of important factors affecting the transaction frequency or intensity of a housing unit should be a more fundamental research question. This paper examines the possible factors that determine the popularity of residential unit by means of a repeated sales pattern. The Poisson regression model and event history analysis techniques are employed to assess the effect of atributes on transaction frequency and intensity. The event history analyses technique can take account of transaction-specific as well as time-dependent covariates, and therefore is recommended for analyzing repeated sales data in a real estate market. All transaction records during the period 1993 to 2000 from the Land Registry of one of the most popular residential estates in Hong Kong were used to illustrate the method. Unlike a response to favorable transaction price, good quality units do not necessarily inherently display a high transaction frequency. Rather, units of average quality are more likely to be transactionally active.

Book Markets at Work

Download or read book Markets at Work written by Bertrand Renaud and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The real estate economy of Hong Kong is one of the most dynamic and sophisticated in the world, and has contributed greatly to the spectacular development of this vibrant city. More importantly, at a time of rapid globalization of the world economy, it is possibly the best model of the behaviour of an advanced real estate industry operating in an open economy. Hong Kong is thereforeof interest to analysts and policymakers everywhere, not least because of Hong Kong's political reintegration with China in 1997. With this in mind, the authors have managed to capture the key economic features of the private residential real estate market in Hong Kong in this compact volume. They have identified and highlighted critical institutions that contribute to the success and economic factors which shape the dynamics of all sectors of the real estate industry in Hong Kong. This book is essential reading for market analysts, policymakers, students and international readers with an interest in comparative analysis of real estate markets and institutions.' Professor Anthony Walker, Centre for Real Estate and Urban Economics,The University of Hong Kong.

Book Econometric Analyses of International Housing Markets

Download or read book Econometric Analyses of International Housing Markets written by Rita Yi Man Li and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how econometric modelling can be used to provide valuable insight into international housing markets. Initially describing the role of econometrics modelling in real estate market research and how it has developed in recent years, the book goes on to compare and contrast the impact of various macroeconomic factors on developed and developing housing markets. Explaining the similarities and differences in the impact of financial crises on housing markets around the world, the author's econometric analysis of housing markets across the world provides a broad and nuanced perspective on the impact of both international financial markets and local macro economy on housing markets. With discussion of countries such as China, Germany, UK, US and South Africa, the lessons learned will be of interest to scholars of Real Estate economics around the world.

Book Analysis of the Determinants of House Price Changes

Download or read book Analysis of the Determinants of House Price Changes written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Housing Price Gradient Changes between Macau and Hong Kong

Download or read book Housing Price Gradient Changes between Macau and Hong Kong written by Edward Chung Yim Yiu and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper applies a two-workplace residential location choice model to study the housing price gradient changes between Macau and Hong Kong. The classical land market model assumes a one-workplace scenario. However, with the globalization trend, travel between two workplaces is becoming more and more common. This paper found that housing price gradient from Macau to Hong Kong is flattened when more non-resident workers traveled from Hong Kong to Macau, ceteris paribus. The results have important implications on polycentric city models, and provide a novel method to study neighboring city effects on housing price.

Book Determinants of the Spatial Dynamics of Housing Prices in Chengdu  China  2005 2010

Download or read book Determinants of the Spatial Dynamics of Housing Prices in Chengdu China 2005 2010 written by Jin Chen (S.M.) and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Housing unit prices differ among 75 street blocks per time period in Chengdu, China. Housing unit price's appreciation also moves differently in the 75 street blocks between 2005 and 2010. With solid transaction data acquired from Chengdu Housing Administration Department, two regression models, Level Model and Change Model are exercised to explore two questions: What are determinants of cross-section housing unit price difference and what are determinants of housing unit price movement in time? The findings are consistent with urban economic theory and actual practice in the market. In conjunction with physical attributes and locational features, the thesis found from the Level Model that economic and demographic characteristics, which are representations of urban economic growth, industrial restructuring and demographic transformation, are also significant determinants that have been capitalized into housing unit price at various levels. In a rapid developing city like Chengdu, the thesis found from the Change Model that instead of the change of various factors, inherent locational features and the initial price per street block play significant roles moving unit price upward in both short-term (1-year) and relatively long-term (5-year). Such finding exhibits consistent market anticipation that housing and amenity demand constantly outpace its supply in Chengdu. Additional Level Models defined by unit size reveal differentiated capitalization effects from same group of locational features. The result ties various sizes of units with corresponding housing products. Subsequently it proves that demographic structure is a significant determinant of housing price dynamics. Field trip and interview are conducted to bridge academic analysis with real market. The findings from qualitative research contribute valuable inputs to improve the models. Understanding determinants that are capitalized into price and move price appreciation is useful to household to guide wise investment. The research is also referable to developer who can make sound assessment on developable land with better understanding of its potential value. The more inclusive analysis of spatial housing price dynamics will assist policy maker to establish proper urban policy in the effort to balance urban structure between housing and jobs.

Book Research on Housing Price Factors of Zhuhai City

Download or read book Research on Housing Price Factors of Zhuhai City written by Wen Tsao Pan and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The completion and opening of the Hongkong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge not only strengthened the links between different cities in the Pearl River Delta region but also greatly promoted economic exchanges between Hong Kong and Macao and the Mainland. In theory, the facilitation of traffic conditions can drive economic development around it, especially in the area of real estate, which may have a regional housing price convergence effect. Taking Zhuhai real estate industry as the research object, this paper selects 39 communities in Xiangzhou District (including Hengqin New District) as samples, based on the Hedonic model. And through the method of Equal Part Linear Regression Model to establish the functional relationship between the housing price of Zhuhai and the location factors, neighborhood factors and other influencing factors, to find out the main factors affecting Zhuhai housing prices after the opening of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. The results show that for the Xiangzhou District of Zhuhai, the distance from the sea is an important factor affecting housing prices, showing a significant negative correlation. However,other general factors affecting house prices play a relatively small role.

Book Determinants of Real Estate Liquidity

Download or read book Determinants of Real Estate Liquidity written by 黃靜欣 and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Economic Roots of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong

Download or read book The Economic Roots of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong written by Louis Augustin-Jean and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the autumn of 2014, thousands of people, young and educated in their majority, occupied the chief business district and seat of the government in Hong Kong. The protest, known as the Umbrella Movement, called for ‘genuine democracy’, as well as a fairer social and economic system. The book aims to provide a dynamic framework to explain why socioeconomic forces converged to produce such a situation. Examining increasing inequality, rising prices and stagnating incomes, it stresses the role of economic and social factors, as opposed to the domestic political and constitutional issues often assumed to be the root cause behind the protests. It first argues that globalization and the increasing influence of China’s economy in Hong Kong has weighted on salaries. Second, it shows that the oligopolistic nature of the local economy has generated rents, which have reinforced inequality. The book demonstrates that the younger generation, which is still finding its place in society, has been particularly affected by these phenomena, especially with social mobility at a low point. Offering a new approach to studying the Umbrella Movement, this book will appeal to students and scholars interested in Hong Kong's political landscape, as well Chinese politics more broadly.

Book Sociological Abstracts

Download or read book Sociological Abstracts written by Leo P. Chall and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: