Touristification is an emerging concept used to enable the understanding of how various stakeholders interfere and transform a neighbourhood through tourist activities. This study develops a touristification rent gap theory to examine how an influx of tourists causes an increase in retail rents....

Co-living was commonly considered inferior compared to single-family occupied homes. However, with the chic of sharing economy and the sophistication of online peer-to-peer accommodation platforms, co-living has become more common and popular nowadays. Yet, there have been very few empirical...

This paper examines the rent determinants of sub-divided units (SDUs) in Hong Kong by hedonic pricing models. The supply of low-cost housing by SDUs is achieved at the expense of tenants’ living quality and tenure security. Tenants have to make trade-offs of living space and housing facilities...

Most of the previous studies on the impacts of pedestrianised areas on the environment were qualitative ones, and without controls. This study, in contrast, using panel market data in Hong Kong to estimate the effect of a pedestrianisation scheme on the retail rent of the area, in a controlled...