Price discovery is an important research topic in real estate due to the heterogeneous nature of housing attributes and relatively thin trading activities compared to other assets. In Commonwealth countries, including New Zealand, governments usually conduct periodic appraisals for the purpose...

New Zealand is a multi-ethnic society that embraces multiculturism. Many studies have examined how the size of the minority population affects residential property values. However, very few studies have recognised that the qualities of neighbourhoods may cause such price differentials. We use...

Traditionally a young family, usually a married couple, purchases a starter home under a shared title, puts up a deposit and pays down the mortgage with a bank until it is owned outright. But skyrocketing house prices prevent many of them from taking this traditional route. In recent years, the...

Over the past decade, the global rise of home-sharing platforms such as Airbnb has catalysed the process of “touristification” in major cities. “Touristification” is a term which has been recently used to describe a process which leads to the transformation of a community into a tourism...

Co-living was commonly considered inferior compared to single-family occupied homes. However, with the chic of sharing economy and the sophistication of online peer-to-peer accommodation platforms, co-living has become more common and popular nowadays. Yet, there have been very few empirical...