Purpose – This paper seeks to explore the relationship between market positioning and rents of retail facilities in Hong Kong. Design/methodology/approach – Regression analysis is deployed in the paper to find out the impact of various attributes, in terms of a retail facility's physical...

The paper examines how building height is determined in the absence of building height regulatory restrictions. A model is developed for determining optimal height using simple neo-classical economic analysis; this is then tested using empirical data from Hong Kong. The results show that the...

Improvements in transport were commonly found to have a positive effect on the price of housing. As the construction of infrastructure often lasts for years, it is plausible to assume that investors will take expected improvements into consideration when pricing and trading neighbourhood...

This is an empirical study on the vertical dimension of multi-story buildings – floor level and building height. The idea of price gradients in a monocentric city was borrowed to investigate floor-level premiums, which are the price paid for the vertical location (i.e., a higher floor level)...

The paper examines how building height is determined in the absence of building height regulatory restrictions. A model is developed for determining optimal height using simple neo-classical economic analysis; this is then tested using empirical data from Hong Kong. The results show that the...

How shocks in one market influence the return and volatility of other markets has been an important question for portfolio managers. In the finance literature, many studies found evidence of volatility spillovers across international markets as well as between spot and futures markets. Although...