Transaction Volume and Price Dispersion in the Presale and Spot Real Estate Markets

C. Yiu (), S. Wong () and K. Chau ()

The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 2009, vol. 38, issue 3, 253 pages

Abstract: Noise trading has been intensively studied in finance, but rarely in real estate. Theories of price dispersion have also been well established in retailing research, but less so in real estate. This paper is the first attempt to study the effect of noise trading on price dispersion in the real estate spot and presale (forward) markets. Quality-controlled price dispersion data series are estimated using a sample of transaction data in the housing presale and spot markets in Hong Kong. Our results show that transaction volume has a negative and significant effect on price dispersion in the spot market, but a positive and significant effect in the presale market. These support our conjecture that there are more noise traders in the presale market due to lower transaction costs. The volume effects also provide support for the use of a volume weighted least squares model when constructing a repeat sales index. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009

Keywords: Noise trader; Price dispersion; Trading volume; Repeat-sales model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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