Most existing house price index construction methods are developed manly based on transaction data from the secondary housing markets, and are not necessarily suitable for the nascent housing markets where a predominant portion of housing transactions are new units. Using the booming market in...

Most existing house price index construction methods are developed mainly based on transaction data from the secondary housing market, and are not necessarily suitable for the nascent housing markets where a predominant portion of housing transactions are new units. Using the booming market in...

Understanding the within-city house price distribution, heterogeneity and diffusion is essential for understanding the dynamics of city-level housing markets, but these issues have not been thoroughly investigated. In this paper, we construct a constant-quality spatiotemporal house price index...

Many efforts have been made to measure investor sentiment in financial markets, but only a few studies focus on housing markets. We build sentiment indexes for the Chinese housing market while observing that house price narratives are abundantly documented on social media. With the help of...