Foreign liquidity to real estate market: : Ripple effect and housing price dynamics

• Autores: Wen-Chi Liao, Daxuan Zhao, Li Ping Lim, Grace Khei Mie Wong
• Localización: Urban Studies, ISSN-e 1360-063X, Vol. 52, Nº. 1, 2014, págs. 138-158
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Globalisation enables foreign liquidity to access local property markets. This paper depicts a strong connection between foreigners� property acquisitions and regional housing price movements in Singapore. Testing structure breaks also illustrates a ripple effect of prices from the central city to suburbs. A structural vector autoregression incorporates these two observations. Impulse-response function and forecast-error variance decomposition show that central region�s foreign-liquidity shocks can greatly impact housing price growth in not only the central region but also the non-central region where foreign buyers are inactive. The ripple effect of prices plays an important role. Non-central region�s foreign-liquidity shocks, in contrast, have small effects on both regions. Impacts of foreign-liquidity shocks can reach the public-housing market, where foreigners� participation is prohibited. The findings are useful to policy makers who consider regulations of foreign home buyers as an instrument to stabilise housing markets.