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The relationship between owner-occupied housing prices and rental housing rents: evidence from Beijing, China

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  • Song, Zisheng

    (Department of Real Estate and Construction Management, Royal Institute of Technology)

  • Wilhelmsson, Mats

    (Department of Real Estate and Construction Management, Royal Institute of Technology)

  • Zalejska-Jonsson, Agnieszka

    (Department of Real Estate and Construction Management, Royal Institute of Technology)

Abstract

The relationship between housing prices or rents with other economic factors has been widely analysed. However, few studies use cross-sectional data to analyse the relationship between owner-occupied and rental housing sectors. This paper aims to develop a cross-sectional rent-price model and estimate the interconnected relationship between different market segments. Based on the transactional data of owner-occupied and rental housing in 2015–2018 in Beijing, China, we empirically conduct analyses of cross-sectional rent-price interconnectivity in total housing markets and segments such as housing size and school district. As expected, we find a bi-directional relationship between prices and rents in Beijing that goes in both directions, indicating that housing of different tenures substitute each other, and substitutional effects are significantly different across submarkets. Condominium prices have a more significant impact on rents than vice versa.

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  • Song, Zisheng & Wilhelmsson, Mats & Zalejska-Jonsson, Agnieszka, 2022. "The relationship between owner-occupied housing prices and rental housing rents: evidence from Beijing, China," Working Paper Series 22/3, Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Real Estate and Construction Management & Banking and Finance.
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    Keywords

    rents; owner-occupied housing prices; housing subsectors’ relationship;
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    JEL classification:

    • C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
    • C51 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Model Construction and Estimation
    • C52 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Model Evaluation, Validation, and Selection
    • R32 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location - - - Other Spatial Production and Pricing Analysis

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