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Conference Paper: Flippers in housing market search
Title | Flippers in housing market search |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Search and matching Housing market Liquidity Flippers |
Issue Date | 2012 |
Citation | The 2012 Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Dynamics (SED), Limassol, Cyprus, 22-24 June 2012. How to Cite? |
Abstract | We add flippers-specialist investors who attempt to profit from buying low and selling high to a canonical housing market search model. These agents facilitate the turnover of mismatched houses on behalf of end-users and they may survive even if they face an arbitrarily large cost of financing vis-a-vis ordinary households. Multiple equilibrium may exist. In one equilibrium, most, if not all, transactions are intermediated by flippers, resulting in rapid turnover, a high vacancy rate, and high housing prices. In another equilibrium, few houses are bought and sold by these agents. Turnover is sluggish, few houses are vacant, and prices are moderate. When flippers face a lower cost of financing, their presence can, rather unexpectedly, decline. There may then be lower, not higher, housing prices to follow an interest rate decline. |
Description | Session - Housing |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/190689 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Leung, CKY | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Tse, CY | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-09-17T15:35:47Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2013-09-17T15:35:47Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | The 2012 Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Dynamics (SED), Limassol, Cyprus, 22-24 June 2012. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/190689 | - |
dc.description | Session - Housing | - |
dc.description.abstract | We add flippers-specialist investors who attempt to profit from buying low and selling high to a canonical housing market search model. These agents facilitate the turnover of mismatched houses on behalf of end-users and they may survive even if they face an arbitrarily large cost of financing vis-a-vis ordinary households. Multiple equilibrium may exist. In one equilibrium, most, if not all, transactions are intermediated by flippers, resulting in rapid turnover, a high vacancy rate, and high housing prices. In another equilibrium, few houses are bought and sold by these agents. Turnover is sluggish, few houses are vacant, and prices are moderate. When flippers face a lower cost of financing, their presence can, rather unexpectedly, decline. There may then be lower, not higher, housing prices to follow an interest rate decline. | - |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Dynamics, SED 2012 | en_US |
dc.subject | Search and matching | - |
dc.subject | Housing market | - |
dc.subject | Liquidity | - |
dc.subject | Flippers | - |
dc.title | Flippers in housing market search | en_US |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Tse, CY: cytse@hkucc.hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Tse, CY=rp01099 | en_US |
dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 223740 | en_US |