International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis: Volume 17 Issue 5

Editorial: IJHMA 17.5 editorial

Richard Reed

Measuring long-run housing affordability for Malaysian millennial households: a geospatial and income distribution analysis

Gary John Rangel, Jason Wei Jian Ng., Thangarajah Thiyagarajan Murugasu, Wai Ching Poon

The purpose of this study is to use a lifetime income measure to evaluate the long-run housing affordability for an understudied cohort of households in the literature – the…

Extrapolative time-series modelling of house prices: a case study from Sydney, Australia

Shanaka Herath, Vince Mangioni, Song Shi, Xin Janet Ge

House price fluctuations send vital signals to many parts of the economy, and long-term predictions of house prices are of great interest to governments and property developers…

A dynamic analysis of the influence of foreign real estate investments on residential land prices in Mauritius

Narvada Gopy-Ramdhany, Boopen Seetanah

Mauritius’s residential real estate sector has undergone an increase in foreign investment over the past decades. This study aims to establish if the increasing level of foreign…

How frequent and visible criminal violence affects housing prices: evidence from Mexico City (2007–2011)

Laura H. Atuesta, Monserrat Carrasco

Between 2006 and 2012, Mexico implemented a “frontal war against organized crime”. This strategy increased criminal violence and triggered negative consequences across the…

The US monetary conditions and Dubai’s real estate market: twist or tango?

Ahmed Shoukry Rashad, Mahmoud Farghally

The monetary policy is an important driver of the real estate sector’s performance. The recent wave of monetary tightening in 2022 in response to the cost-of-living crisis has…

Three decades of house purchase decisions: a scoping review and thematic classification

Janhavi Abhang, V.V. Ravi Kumar

This study aims to develop a database of existing academic information in house purchase decision (HPD) using systematic literature review (SLR), to facilitate worldwide…

The impact of energy certificates on sales and rental prices: a comparative analysis

Alesia Gerassimenko, Laurens Defau, Lieven De Moor

The current literature on energy certificates shows that Energy Performance Certificate labels have an important effect on real estate prices. However, interestingly, the limited…

Diversified urban housing markets and decentralized market regulation in China

Wenjing Li, Zhi Liu

In 2016, the Chinese central government decentralized the responsibilities of housing market regulation to the municipal level. This paper aims to assess whether the decentralized…

Housing affordability in the capital cities of three Northwestern China provinces

Mingchen Duan, Yi Duan

Previous studies on housing affordability in China were concentrated in China’s coastal and central regions. The purpose of this paper is to investigate housing affordability of…

Proposing a corporate governance model for an Islamic property developer

Novi Puspitasari, Ana Mufidah, Dewi Prihatini, Abdul Muhsyi, Imam Suroso

The purpose of this study include analyzing the conformity between the General Guidelines for the Governance of the Indonesian Sharia Entities (GGG-ISE) and the implementation in…