Qiu, Leiju; Guo, Dongmei; Niu, Ruqi - 2021
This paper analyzes how the competition among real estate brokers impacts housing prices in a typical sellers’ market … promising higher transaction prices and compete for buyers by exerting more effort, and thus its effect on housing prices. We … further examine how large the effect is with a merged dataset of housing listings and transaction records in Beijing in 2016 …