International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis: Volume 15 Issue 3

Editorial 15-3 International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis

Richard Reed

The price-rent dynamics and linkage of urban housing: evidence from Singapore

Philip Inyeob Ji, Seema Bogati Bhandari

The aim of this paper is to examine dynamic linkages between price and rent and between property types. Intuition suggests that housing market segments experience different market…

The connectedness of house price affordability (HPA) and rental price affordability (RPA) measures

Graham Squires, Don Webber, Hai Hong Trinh, Arshad Javed

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between house price affordability (HPA) and rental price affordability (RPA) in New Zealand. The cointegration of HPA and…

Segmenting German housing markets using principal component and cluster analyses

Simon Wiersma, Tobias Just, Michael Heinrich

Germany has a polycentric city structure. This paper aims to reduce complexity of this structure and to find a reliable classification scheme of German housing markets at city…

Assessing housing preferences of young civil servants in Malaysia: do location, financial capability and neighbourhood really matter?

Nor Ezatie Mukminah Muhammad Zamri, Mahazril ‘Aini Yaacob, Norazah Mohd Suki

The purpose of this study is to examine the key factors that influence the housing preferences of young civil servants in Malaysia.

The influence of privately initiated rezoning on housing prices

Jeffrey G. Robert, Velma Zahirovic-Herbert

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the parcel-level impacts of the zoning change.

Government regulation and financial support on housing delivery: lessons learned from the Saudi experience

Ali Muflah AlQahtany

The purpose of this paper is to study the housing delivery in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and to discuss the most significant government regulations and financial support…

Understanding the behaviour of house prices and household income per capita in South Africa: application of the asymmetric autoregressive distributed lag model

Anthanasius Fomum Tita, Pieter Opperman

Homeownership provides shelter and is a vital component of wealth, and house purchase signifies a lifetime achievement for many households. For South Africa confronted with social…

Relationship between housing finance institutional contexts and financial contexts to housing ownership by low-income earners in Bauchi LGA, Nigeria

Moses Jonathan Gambo, Sani Usman Kunya, Bala Ishiyaku, Musa Jacob Ashen, Wilfred Emmanuel Dzasu

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between housing finance institutional related variables and financial related variables of low-income earners in…

Valuation for compensation of communal properties in Zimbabwe: the case of Chiyadzwa and Tokwe-Mukosi projects

Joseph Awoamim Yacim, Partson Paradza, Benita Zulch (Kotze)

This study aims to examine the statutory provisions as it concerns the practice of valuation for compensation of expropriated communal properties in Zimbabwe. The primary…

Impact of light rail line on residential property values – a case of Sydney, Australia

Rotimi Boluwatife Abidoye, Felice Fam, Olalekan Shamsideen Oshodi, Abiodun Kolawole Oyetunji

The construction of new transportation infrastructure tends to affect the adjoining properties, economy and environment. In particular, studies have investigated the change in the…

Dynamics of affordability and immigration in the Canadian housing market

Vikkram Singh

This study aims to make two major contributions. First, given the literature gap in housing unaffordability for different immigrant groups in Canada, it makes an essential…