TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose Housing prices in Sydney have increased rapidly in the past three decades. This leads to a debate of whether Sydney housing prices have departed from macroeconomic fundamentals. However, little research has been devoted to this area. Therefore, this study aims to fill this gap by examining the long-run association between housing prices and market fundamentals. Further, it also examines the long-run determinants of housing prices in Greater Sydney.Design/methodology/approach The analysis of this study involves two stages. The first stage is to estimate the presence of long-run relationship between housing prices and market fundamentals with the Johansen and Juselius Cointegration test. Thereafter, the determinants of housing prices in Greater Sydney is assessed by using a vector error correction model.Findings The empirical results show that Sydney housing prices are cointegrated with market fundamentals in the long run. In addition, there is evidence to suggest that market fundamentals such as gross disposable income, housing supply, unemployment rate and gross domestic product are the key long-run determinants of Sydney housing prices, reflecting that Sydney housing prices, in general, can be explained by market fundamentals in the long run.Research limitations/implications The findings enable more informed and practical policy and investment decision-making regarding the relation between housing prices and market fundamentals.Originality/value This paper is the first study to offer empirical evidence of the degree to which the behaviour of housing prices can be explained by market fundamentals, from a capital city instead of at a national level, using a relatively disaggregated dataset of housing price series for Greater Sydney.
VL  - 12
IS  - 4
SN  - 1753-8270
DO  - 10.1108/IJHMA-10-2018-0082
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHMA-10-2018-0082
AU  - Al-Masum Md Abdullah
AU  - Lee Chyi Lin
PY  - 2019
Y1  - 2019/01/01
TI  - Modelling housing prices and market fundamentals: evidence from the Sydney housing market
T2  - International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 746
EP  - 762
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -