As COVID-19 is pervasive in the globe, governments in different countries face a dilemma between restricting the transmission risk of the virus by social distancing and maintaining economic activities. Inadequate social distancing policies lead to more infected cases and deaths, while some...

This study examines how overpricing of properties (in terms of above-market price), along with various housing attributes, influence their time-on-market (TOM). The results with the full sample show that only dummy variables depicting years 2003-2005 and flats located in Kowloon significantly...

There are a lot of previous studies on calendar effects. However, most of them use traditional methods like regression. Hui et al. (2015b) incorporate Shiryaev-Zhou index with logistic regression to study the Halloween and January effects of eight securitized real estate markets, but they fixed...

This study investigates whether there was a housing price bubble in Beijing and Shanghai in 2003. The existence of a bubble can be interpreted from (abnormal) interactions between housing prices and market fundamentals. This paper introduces an enhanced framework, with the combination of...

The residential property market is characterized with cyclical price movements and long development lead-time. Developers are faced with challenging decisions such as the optimal timing and density of their projects in order to ride the boom-bust cycles. The increasingly important role of market...

This study investigated government speculation on spillover effect in the housing market based on a quasi-experiment related to the house purchase restriction (HPR) policy in China. Using a difference-in-differences research method and the HPR policy applying between 2016 and 2017 in China, this...

The study applies an endogenous switching probit model, using the data from the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS). Not only does it explore the joint decision mechanism between housing purchase and entrepreneurship, but also the (treatment) effect of housing-purchase on entrepreneurship. The...