Separating the Age Effect from a Repeat Sales Index: Land and Structure Decomposition |
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Authors: | Siu Kei Wong K W Chau K Karato C Shimizu |
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Institution: | 1.Ronald Coase Centre for Property Rights Research, HKUrbanLab,The University of Hong Kong,Hong Kong,China;2.Faculty of Economics,University of Toyama,Toyama,Japan;3.Nihon University,Tokyo,Japan |
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Abstract: | Since real estate is heterogeneous and not all its quality attributes are observable, the repeat sales model pioneered by Bailey et al. (1963) has become one of the standard methods to estimate a constant-quality price index. The model, however, fails to adjust for depreciation, as age and time between sales have an exact linear relationship. This paper proposes a new method to estimate an age-adjusted repeat sales index by decomposing property value into land and structure components. As depreciation is more relevant to the structure than land, the property’s depreciation rate should depend on the relative size of land and structure. The larger the land component, the lower the depreciation rate of the property. This new method is applied to property transactions in Hong Kong and Tokyo. Hong Kong is shown to have a higher depreciation rate based on a fixed structure-to-property value ratio, while the resulting age adjustment is larger in Tokyo because its land value has shrunken over time. |
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