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Conference Paper: Housing quality in the forward contracts market

TitleHousing quality in the forward contracts market
Authors
KeywordsMarket efficiency
Moral hazard
Real estate forward sales
Reputation
Issue Date2007
PublisherSpringer New York LLC. The Journal's web site is located at http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=0895-5638
Citation
The 2005 NUS-HKU Symposium on Real Estate Research, Singapore, 13-15 July 2005. In Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 2007, v. 34 n. 3, p. 313-325 How to Cite?
AbstractDevelopers often conduct forward sales (or presales) before building completion to relieve financial risk and burden. However, there are worries that housing units sold in this way will turn out to be substandard because developers, who have been paid for the unfinished units, may have incentives to cut costs by lowering the quality. This is a typical moral hazard problem. Nonetheless, forward sales have been very popular in some Asian cities such as Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan. A plausible explanation is that the market has efficiently adjusted the forward price for this potential quality problem according to developers' reputations. This paper aims to theoretically explain and empirically test (1) whether reputation is reflected in forward prices and (2) whether the expected quality level matches with the actual quality level. Using the forward and spot sales data of the Hong Kong real estate market, we found that even though housing quality was not observable during presales, the market was able to capitalize developers' reputations into forward prices accurately. This suggests that the optimal strategy for developers is to stick to the quality level implied by their reputations. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007.
DescriptionThis journal issue is the 3rd Special Issue contained papers of the 2005 NUS-HKU Symposium on Real Estate Research
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/81943
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2023 Impact Factor: 1.7
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.580
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dc.contributor.authorChau, KWen_HK
dc.contributor.authorWong, SKen_HK
dc.contributor.authorYiu, CYen_HK
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dc.date.available2010-09-06T08:23:42Z-
dc.date.issued2007en_HK
dc.identifier.citationThe 2005 NUS-HKU Symposium on Real Estate Research, Singapore, 13-15 July 2005. In Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 2007, v. 34 n. 3, p. 313-325en_HK
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dc.description.abstractDevelopers often conduct forward sales (or presales) before building completion to relieve financial risk and burden. However, there are worries that housing units sold in this way will turn out to be substandard because developers, who have been paid for the unfinished units, may have incentives to cut costs by lowering the quality. This is a typical moral hazard problem. Nonetheless, forward sales have been very popular in some Asian cities such as Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan. A plausible explanation is that the market has efficiently adjusted the forward price for this potential quality problem according to developers' reputations. This paper aims to theoretically explain and empirically test (1) whether reputation is reflected in forward prices and (2) whether the expected quality level matches with the actual quality level. Using the forward and spot sales data of the Hong Kong real estate market, we found that even though housing quality was not observable during presales, the market was able to capitalize developers' reputations into forward prices accurately. This suggests that the optimal strategy for developers is to stick to the quality level implied by their reputations. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007.en_HK
dc.languageengen_HK
dc.publisherSpringer New York LLC. The Journal's web site is located at http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=0895-5638en_HK
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Real Estate Finance and Economicsen_HK
dc.subjectMarket efficiencyen_HK
dc.subjectMoral hazarden_HK
dc.subjectReal estate forward salesen_HK
dc.subjectReputationen_HK
dc.titleHousing quality in the forward contracts marketen_HK
dc.typeConference_Paperen_HK
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dc.identifier.emailChau, KW: hrrbckw@hku.hken_HK
dc.identifier.emailWong, SK: kelvin.wong@hku.hken_HK
dc.identifier.emailYiu, CY: ecyyiu@hkucc.hku.hken_HK
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