In order to deal with the rampant increase in housing prices, the Government of the People's Republic of China implemented the home purchase restriction (HPR) policy to curb speculation and prevent housing bubbles. This policy triggered an exogenous demand shock to the housing market. Employing...

In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, non-core investments are gaining traction amongst institutional investors due to the shifting preference towards investment vehicles that position higher on the risk-return curve. Non-listed value-add real estate funds in Japan are one such vehicle....

Institutional investors have sought exposure to the China real estate market, often via opportunity real estate funds. This has been by a pure China opportunity real estate fund or by a pan-Asia opportunity real estate fund where China opportunity real estate was part of this real estate...

This paper studies the evolution of property values and the connections between shadow banking and property markets in China. We use Pooled Mean Group estimation to analyze Chinese house prices in 65 cities from 2007-2016, defining the “fundamentals” of housing prices with the Gordon...

This paper is about investigating how different bank liquidity creation activities affect housing markets. Using data of 401 metropolitan statistical areas/divisions (MSAs/MSADs) of the US between 1990 and 2018, we show that not all bank liquidity creation activities boost housing markets. In...

We develop a set of theoretical models to show how differences in real estate developers' optimism about market demand affects construction and sales decisions. The model is a variation of asymmetric Cournot duopoly where developers choose levels of output conditioned on their rivals' output and...

The recent surge in property values in China has been similar to the surge in the U.S before the crash in 2007. This raises concerns about whether China is destined to have a crash as well. We estimate similar models of property values for the two countries, in order to compare price dynamics...