Providing affordable housing has become one of China’s key national policy agenda items. The shared-equity model in Hong Kong, implemented since the late 1970s, has assisted many families in owning a home in the public housing market. However, little attention has been paid to their welfare...

While governments around the world are embarking on the path to recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, sustainable tourism planning is crucial, in particular in the hospitality sector, which enhances the resilience of destinations. However, many destination management models overlook the role of...

Purpose This study aims to identify the pandemic’s impact on house rents by applying a rental gradient analysis to compare the pre-and post-COVID-19 periods in Auckland. The micro-level household census data from the Integrated Data Infrastructure of Statistics New Zealand is also applied to...

Purpose – The classical land market model assumes a one‐workplace scenario. However, with the globalization trend, travel between two workplaces is becoming more and more common. This paper therefore aims to study the housing price gradient changes between Macau and Hong Kong to test the two...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper to identify the asymmetric effect of real interest rate on housing return. Design/methodology/approach – It tests empirically the impacts of positive and negative real interest rate on housing return in Hong Kong by time series regression analyses on...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study empirically the effect of a pedestrianisation scheme on retail rent, in a case study in Hong Kong. Design/methodology/approach – Most of the previous studies on the impacts of pedestrianised areas on the environment were qualitative ones, and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a novel tenant mix model for shopping malls based on an analogy from ecological theories. Design/methodology/approach – This study empirically investigates the tenant species‐area relationship and tenant species‐abundance distribution in...

In Hong Kong, a balcony is often perceived as a “green” provision in modern residential buildings. However, how the market values the benefits of balconies is seldom studied due to the difficulty in separating such benefits from other associated effects such as view enjoyment and security...