Epidemic shocks and housing price responses: Evidence from China's urban residential communities.

ABSTRACT: This paper evaluates the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on the real estate market using a community-level panel dataset of 34 major cities in China. We find that the average housing price in communities with COVID-19 infections decreases by approximately 1.3% compared to communities with no confirmed cases. The economic implication is that homebuyers are willing to pay a premium equivalent to approximately 1.3% of the average housing price to avoid health risks. The response of real estate markets to epidemic shocks is heterogeneous in community and city characteristics. Dynamic analysis shows that the declines in home prices, transaction volumes, and rents are all short-lived, returning to their original development paths a few months after the epidemic shock. Public interventions such a

SUBMITTER: Liu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9754793 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature