This paper examines the rent determinants of sub-divided units (SDUs) in Hong Kong by hedonic pricing models. The supply of low-cost housing by SDUs is achieved at the expense of tenants’ living quality and tenure security. Tenants have to make trade-offs of living space and housing facilities...

This paper aims to test the effect of real interest rate on housing return, by using the differencing model for eliminating the effects of other factors. Even though the relationship has been tested before, but it is hard to eliminate other factors when studying the effect of real interest rate...

Land resumption in Hong Kong, which involves involuntary displacement in contemporary development projects, deliberately targets nonindigenous villages, where many residents are landless farmers. In this article, we examine the risks and impacts associated with such displacement of the...

Although many studies have found that unemployment has a negative effect on housing prices, the explanation put forward for this effect, that is, uncertainty over the ability to repay long term mortgage loans, has not been empirically tested. This paper attempts to empirically test this...

Age, time and vintage effects are exact collinear, so their effects cannot be disentangled in regression analyses. Suggestions have been put forward to deal with this problem, but in vain. Since the problem of exact collinearity requires external information to solve, any manipulation of the...

Green building codes normally consider self-sufficiency of energy and water. Their highest aspiration is to build zero carbon buildings (ZCB) or zero energy buildings (ZEB). However, a zero-energy building is not sustainable, as it does not take into account the self-sufficiency of food and...

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...

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, work-from-home (WFH) and e-commerce have become much more common in many cities. Many news reports have contended that households are leaving city centres and moving into bigger and better houses in the suburbs or rural areas. This emerging trend has been...

Shared equity homeownership is a housing finance model that uses public investments to subsidise families with modest incomes to purchase homes. However, the shared equity model is argued to constrain homeowners from moving because of its resale period and price restrictions. While many studies...

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...