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- Title
Short Sales and Price Discovery in the Hong Kong Real Estate Market.
- Authors
Wong, Siu Kei; Lai, Thomas C. C.; Deng, Kuang Kuang
- Abstract
Indirect real estate (IRE) returns are often shown to lead direct real estate (DRE) returns. Apart from differences in liquidity, transaction costs, and management skills, the DRE market is also less complete than the IRE market-when negative shocks arrive, one can only short IRE ( e.g., real estate stocks or REITs), but not DRE. This study investigates if short sales in the IRE market convey any information to the DRE market. Based on high-frequency (weekly) property price data in Hong Kong from 2000 to 2012, we find that short sales in the IRE market led DRE returns, even after controlling for the lagged IRE returns in a VAR model. This supports an information spillover mechanism in which the DRE market learns private information that is not reflected in IRE returns. The spillover effect, however, weakened after the recent global financial crisis because the increased uncertainty over the credibility of individual firms made short sales more reflective of firm-specific information than real estate market fundamentals.
- Subjects
HONG Kong (China); REAL property; SHORT sales (Real property); LIQUIDITY (Economics); TRANSACTION costs
- Publication
Real Estate Economics, 2017, Vol 45, Issue 1, p133
- ISSN
1080-8620
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1540-6229.12130