Property prices, housing policies for collateral and resale constraints

The question of whether significant impacts of Loan-to-value (LTV) ratio and Special Stamp Duty (SSD) on residential property market prices exist has been hotly debated. This study aims to investigate the long-term and short-term impacts of LTV ratio and SSD on property prices in Hong Kong. In the s...

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Published inInternational journal of strategic property management Vol. 21; no. 2; pp. 115 - 128
Main Authors Hui, Eddie C. M, Zhong, Jiawei, Yu, Ka Hung
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Vilnius Vilnius Gediminas Technical University 01.06.2017
Taylor & Francis
Subjects
Dwellings
Error correction model
Growth rate
Housing
Housing policy
Housing prices
Interest rates
Loan-to-value ratio
Market prices
Micro-Economics
Mortgages
Prices and rates
Ratios
Residential property prices
Socio-Economic Research
Special Stamp Duty
Stamp duties
Hong Kong China
China
Residential property prices
Error correction model
Special Stamp Duty
Loantovalue ratio
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Summary:The question of whether significant impacts of Loan-to-value (LTV) ratio and Special Stamp Duty (SSD) on residential property market prices exist has been hotly debated. This study aims to investigate the long-term and short-term impacts of LTV ratio and SSD on property prices in Hong Kong. In the study period, the interest rate is low, and the growth rate of housing mortgage is slower than the growth rate of market prices. The findings indicate that changes in LTV ratio cannot change the potential purchasers’ willingness to purchase housing flats over the past ten years. SSD, on the other hand, only have a more prominent long-term impact on larger properties (more than 70 m2) by directly reducing the transaction volumes, compared with that on smaller (less than 70 m2) ones.
ISSN:1648-715X
1648-9179
DOI:10.3846/1648715X.2016.1249984