 New Zealand's 'love affair' with houses and cars*Mohammed Khaled () and Ralph Lattimore New Zealand Economic Papers, 2008, vol. 42, issue 1, 127-148 Abstract: Rapidly rising house prices over the last few years has drawn the attention of researchers to the drivers lying behind both supply and demand side influences in the housing market. This study complements much of that work by attempting to uncover the price and income parameters for rental and owner-occupied housing in New Zealand in relation to all other goods and services purchased by households. The research quantifies a point long understood informally about demand behaviour in this country, that the demand for housing (and cars) is particularly income elastic. This has important implications for policy makers who attempt to constrain speculative housing demand. Another notable feature of the period has been an apparent trend away from owner occupied housing towards rental accommodation. The research is carried out using Household Economic Survey data through 2004. Keywords: Housing; Income Elasticity; Household Economic Survey (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:nzecpp:v:42:y:2008:i:1:p:127-148 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/00779950809544416 Access Statistics for this article New Zealand Economic Papers is currently edited by Dennis Wesselbaum More articles in New Zealand Economic Papers from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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