"By reviewing the previous three asset bubble implosions, viz. (1) the íLost Decadeî of Japan in the 1980s; (2) the Asian Financial Crisis in Hong Kong in 1997; and (3) the Financial Tsunami in the USA in 2008, a common symptom of negative real interest rate is very clearly revealed before the...

Income segregation is found to be a common phenomenon, which imposes far-reaching implications on housing and social policies. However, the focus has long been on its extent rather than on its distribution. This study investigates the asymmetry of income segregation and the relationship between...

China's National Bureau of Statistics said that the annual growth of housing price reached 24% in 2009 after the financial tsunami. Is it a recovery or a bubble? What makes the housing price increasing so quickly? Price-to-Income Ratio is by far the commonest measurement method to housing...

Almost all previous studies on the value of seaview were cross-sectional as it is almost impossible to find any formation or removal of seaview in the scale of man time. However, cross-sectional analysis is well known of its shortcoming in controlling housing quality and temporal components in...

A plenty of studies have contributed to the body of knowledge on the performance of real estate investment trusts (REITs). Many of them have attempted to examine the inter-temporal relationship between REITs and property stocks using time domain techniques such as regression, cross-correlation,...

As the capitalization rates are tightly related to the required rates of return, there are a number of dynamics driving capital markets can help to explain the observed cap rates over time. Anyway, there are few researches discussing about why and how real estate cap rates and capital market...

"This study examines the hypothesis about the relationship between the returns of REITs and that of direct real estate. As an indirect investment vehicle, REIT (real estate investment trust) shall perform under the influence of the underlying real estate investment. And there were plenty of...

The relationship between construction output and economic growth has been well discussed by construction economists. Most of the previous studies found a positive correlation between gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and various measures of construction output. However, cross-sectional...

Under-pricing in construction tenders is a common phenomenon and is commonly explained by the need of cash flows and penetration strategy. However, these explanations involve profit cutting and therefore are not plausible in explaining a long-term persistent phenomenon of under-pricing. A real...

Volume of transaction plays two roles in a market, first, it is related to liquidity of assets; second, it affects information cost in the price discovery process. The former results in a liquidity premium on price, which is a first moment effect of hedonic price; the latter produces price...