We offer an explanation of why changes of house price are predictable. Extending the static model in Leung and Tsang (2010), we analyze the housing market with loss averse sellers and anchoring buyers in a dynamic setting. Buyer's current offer price increases with the housing unit's previous...

This paper focuses on evidence on securitized real estate markets as it investigates the volatility spillovers and correlation dynamics among the three real estate securities markets: China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in Greater China (GC) as well as their international linkages with the US...

The initial public offerings (IPO) in the stock market can relate to the real estate market through different channels. An increase in IPO may represent an improvement in the “market sentiment,” which would also stimulate the real estate market. IPO can also increase the demand on commercial...

This paper explores the importance of real estate market for asset pricing models using Hong Kong data. The time-series regression approach is employed to examine the effect of a real estate factor on the Fama and French (1993) three factor model and on the Cahart (1997) four factor model. A...

This paper uses the 2003 Hong Kong Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic as a natural experiment to investigate how housing markets react to extreme events. An analysis of transaction volume suggests that the absence of price overreaction is likely to be related to housing market...