published_or_final_version / Urban Design / Master / Master of Urban Design

Tam Chun Yu. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 141-147). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.I / Acknowledgements --- p.III / Table of Contents --- p.IV / List of Tables --- p.V / List of Figures --- p.VI / Chapter Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 2. --- Literature Review --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1 --- Real Estate Literature --- p.5 / Chapter 2.2 --- Financial Literature --- p.6 / Chapter 2.3 --- Impulse Response --- p.10 / Chapter Chapter 3. --- Methodology --- p.12 / Chapter 3.1 --- Augmented Dickey Fuller Test --- p.12 / Chapter 3.2 --- GARCH Model --- p.14 / Chapter 3.3 --- VAR Model --- p.16 / Chapter Chapter 4. --- Data Description --- p.18 / Chapter Chapter 5. --- Empirical Results --- p.20 / Chapter 5.1 --- Overview for the Data Set --- p.21 / Chapter 5.2 --- ADF Test --- p.22 / Chapter 5.3 --- GARCH Model --- p.22 / Chapter 5.4 --- VAR Model --- p.24 / Chapter 5.5 --- Impulse Response (IR) --- p.34 / Chapter Chapter 6. --- Conclusion --- p.38 / Appendix 1. Variable Definition --- p.41 / Appendix 2. Tables --- p.44 / Appendix 3. Figures --- p.61 / Appendix 4. Comparison of IR for different model in full sample case --- p.93 / Appendix 5. Comparison of IR for different model in first sub period --- p.109 / Appendix 6. Comparison of IR for different model in second sub period --- p.125 / Bibliography --- p.141

by Leung Sui Wai, Tam Kai Yu Margaret. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 73). / ABSTRACT --- p.II / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.IV / LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --- p.VII / LIST OF TABLES --- p.VIII / PREFACE --- p.XI / Chapter 1. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Objectives --- p.2 / Chapter 2 --- HO USING SUPPLIES IN HONG KONG --- p.4 / Chapter 2.1 --- Public Housing --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Public rental flats --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Owning flats under public housing schemes --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- Home Ownership Scheme --- p.9 / Chapter 2.1.4 --- Middle Income Housing --- p.11 / Chapter 2.1.5 --- New Home Starter Loan Scheme --- p.12 / Chapter 2.1.6 --- Sandwich Class Housing Scheme --- p.12 / Chapter 2. 2 --- Private property --- p.14 / Chapter 3. --- PROPERTY IN MAINLAND CHINA --- p.17 / Chapter 3.1 --- Pricing of property in Mainland China --- p.17 / Chapter 3.2 --- Buyers of properties in Mainland China --- p.18 / Chapter 3.3 --- Threat of incomplete commodity housing (lanmeilou) --- p.18 / Chapter 3.4 --- Hong Kong property agents --- p.19 / Chapter 4. --- ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE WITHIN RESEARCH PERIOD --- p.20 / Chapter 4.1 --- Residential Property Market --- p.20 / Chapter 4.2 --- The Real Estate Chill --- p.20 / Chapter 4.3 --- The SAR Property Policy --- p.21 / Chapter 4.4 --- "Long-teRm Housing Strategy, 1997" --- p.22 / Chapter 4.5 --- Land release --- p.24 / Chapter 4.6 --- loan for First-time Home Buyers and Sandwich-Class Buyers --- p.25 / Chapter 4.7 --- Privatizing Public Housing --- p.26 / Chapter 5. --- METHODOLOGY --- p.29 / Chapter 5.1 --- Surveys --- p.29 / Chapter 5.2 --- Questionnaire Design --- p.29 / Chapter 5.3 --- Selection of Respondents --- p.33 / Chapter 5.4 --- Data Analysis --- p.33 / Chapter 6. --- SURVEY RESULTS AND ANALYSIS --- p.35 / Chapter 6.1 --- Results and Analysis - Section 1 --- p.35 / Chapter 6.2 --- Results and Analysis - Section 2 --- p.37 / Chapter 6.3 --- Results and Analysis - Potential Buyers --- p.42 / Chapter 6.3.1 --- Age --- p.42 / Chapter 6.3.2 --- Marital Status --- p.43 / Chapter 6.3.3 --- Relatives in China --- p.44 / Chapter 6.3.4 --- Currently Living With --- p.45 / Chapter 6.3.5 --- Currently Living In --- p.46 / Chapter 6.3.6 --- Education Level --- p.48 / Chapter 6.3.7 --- Number of Property Currently Owned --- p.50 / Chapter 6.3.8 --- Income --- p.51 / Chapter 6.3.9 --- Summary of Characteristics of Potential Buyers --- p.52 / Chapter 7. --- RECOMMENDATION --- p.54 / Chapter 7.1 --- Product --- p.54 / Chapter 7.2 --- Price --- p.56 / Chapter 7.3 --- Promotion --- p.57 / Chapter 7.3.1 --- Advertising --- p.57 / Chapter 7.3.2 --- Publicity --- p.58 / Chapter 7.3.3 --- Sales promotion --- p.58 / Chapter 7.3.4 --- Personal selling --- p.58 / Chapter 7.4 --- Distribution --- p.59 / Chapter 8. --- CONCLUSION --- p.60 / Chapter 8.1 --- Feasibility of residing in China but working in Hong Kong --- p.60 / Chapter 8.2 --- Demographic profiles of potential buyers --- p.62 / Chapter 8.3 --- Implications of the current situation --- p.62 / Chapter 9. --- LIMITATIONS --- p.64 / APPENDIX --- p.66 / Appendix A The Importance of Each Consideration when Buying Property in Mainland China --- p.66 / Appendix B Copy and results of the survey used in this project --- p.70 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.73

by Siu Wai-Fun. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 55-57). / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iv / LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --- p.vi / LIST OF TABLES --- p.vii / ACKNOWLEDGEMENT --- p.viii / Chapter / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter II. --- THE SOURCES OF HOUSING DEMAND --- p.4 / Demographic Demand --- p.4 / Keen Desire for Home Ownership --- p.5 / Investment Demand --- p.6 / Speculative Demand --- p.8 / Chapter III. --- THE SYSTEM OF HOUSING SUPPLY --- p.10 / Framework for Land Supply and Housing Production --- p.10 / New Land Disposal --- p.11 / Redevelopment of Existing Properties --- p.12 / Constraints on Land Supply for Residential Development --- p.12 / Production of Private Domestic Units --- p.13 / Chapter IV. --- CHANGES IN HOUSING PRICES --- p.15 / Housing Price Fluctuations --- p.16 / Affordability of Housing --- p.18 / Ownership Affordability --- p.19 / Rental Affordability --- p.20 / Chapter V. --- MODELLING HOUSING PRICES --- p.21 / Factors Affecting Price Movements --- p.21 / Demand Side Factors --- p.21 / Supply Side Factors --- p.23 / The Findings --- p.25 / Chapter VI. --- IMPLICATIONS TO GOVERNMENT'S HOUSING POLICIES --- p.27 / Implications from Housing Price Model --- p.27 / Government's Actions to Stabilise Housing Prices --- p.28 / Role of Speculators --- p.29 / Chapter VII. --- CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY CONSIDERATIONS --- p.30 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.55

Lau, Wai Chun. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-79). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.ii / 摘要 --- p.iii / Acknowledgments --- p.iv / Table of Contents --- p.v / Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 2. --- Background --- p.4 / Chapter 2.1 --- Overview of Land Policies in Hong Kong --- p.4 / Land Policies and Private Housing Market --- p.4 / Current Application List System --- p.6 / Chapter 2.2. --- Hypotheses on the Interaction of Housing Prices and Land Sales --- p.6 / Demand-Supply Analysis --- p.6 / Revaluation Hypothesis --- p.8 / Chapter 3. --- Literature Review --- p.11 / Chapter 3.1. --- Relevant Literature about Interaction of Land and Housing Prices --- p.11 / Peng and Wheaton (1994) --- p.11 / Tse(1998) --- p.13 / Ho and Ganesam (1998) --- p.14 / Chapter 3.2. --- Hedonic Approach in the Studies of Hong Kong Real Estate Market --- p.16 / Chapter 4. --- Data Sources and Descriptions --- p.18 / Chapter 4.1 --- Land Sale Data --- p.18 / Chapter 4.2. --- Housing Transaction Data --- p.21 / Chapter 5. --- Methodology --- p.26 / Chapter 5.1 --- Model Specification --- p.26 / Chapter 5.2. --- Hypothesis Testing --- p.27 / Chapter 5.3. --- Functional Form and Estimation Method --- p.30 / Chapter 6. --- Empirical Results --- p.31 / Chapter 6.1. --- Hedonic Mode! Results --- p.31 / Chapter 6.2. --- Discussion on Pre-sale and Post-sale Housing Prices --- p.33 / Chapter 6.3. --- Robustness Checking --- p.36 / Variations in Specification --- p.36 / Time Variable Control --- p.38 / Estimation with Restricted samples --- p.40 / Chapter 7. --- Conclusions --- p.42 / Table 1 Selected Land Auction Records (1994 - 2005) --- p.45 / Table 2 List of Estates Covered in the Study --- p.49 / Table 3a Sampling Period and Number of Observations in Each Case Study --- p.54 / Table 3b Descriptive Statistics of Independent Variables in the Estimation of Model 1 --- p.56 / Table 4 Definition of Independent Variables in Model 1 --- p.60 / Table 5 OLS Estimates of Model 1 with Full Samples --- p.61 / Table 6 Goodness-of-Fit of Model 1 --- p.65 / Table 7 Coefficients of Dummy Variables in Model 1 --- p.66 / Table 8 Estimated Price Change from Model 1 --- p.70 / Table 9a Price Differences and Auction Results (All Cases) --- p.72 / Table 9b Price Differences and Auction Results (Cases with price differences at 10% significance level) --- p.72 / Table 10 Estimated Price Differences by Varying Model Specification and Sample Selection --- p.73 / Figure 1 Private Housing Prices and New Construction Units (1992 ~ 2005) --- p.76 / Figure 2 Mass CCI (1994 ~2006) --- p.77 / References --- p.78

published_or_final_version / Housing Management / Master / Master of Housing Management

by Chan Ngai-Ming, Zoe, Chung Ting Ting. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 56-57). / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iii / LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --- p.v / LIST OF TABLES --- p.vi / Chapter / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter II. --- THE HONG KONG PRIMARY RESIDENTIAL INDUSTRY --- p.6 / Industry Overview --- p.6 / Developers for This Study --- p.6 / Chapter III. --- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK --- p.8 / Competitor Analysis --- p.8 / Market Commonality Vs Product Commonality --- p.8 / Suggested Attributes for Studying Product Commonality in this Industry --- p.9 / Location --- p.9 / Time of Sale --- p.9 / Flat Size --- p.10 / Other Factors --- p.10 / Resource Similarity --- p.12 / Competitive Actions and Responses --- p.12 / Product Commonality and Competitive Response --- p.14 / Competitive Response and Performance --- p.17 / Chapter IV. --- METHODOLOGY --- p.19 / Data --- p.19 / Identification of Actions and Responses --- p.19 / Measurement --- p.21 / Product Commonality --- p.21 / Likelihood of Response to Price Change --- p.24 / Response Magnitude --- p.24 / Performance --- p.25 / Comparative Approach --- p.25 / Chapter V. --- RESULTS --- p.27 / Product Commonality and Likelihood of Response to Price Change --- p.27 / Response Magnitude and Performance --- p.30 / Chapter VI. --- CONCLUSION AND DISCUSSION --- p.34 / Implications --- p.34 / Limitation and Future Directions --- p.36 / APPENDIX I RECOMMENDATIONS FROM STUDY OF HONG KONG RESIDENTIAL MARKET BY THE CONSUMER COUNCIL IN 1996 --- p.41 / APPENDIX IIA SUMMARY OF 27 DATA UNDER STUDIED --- p.43 / APPENDIX IIB TIMELINES FOR 27 DATA UNDER STUDIED --- p.46 / APPENDIX III PRODUCT COMMONALITY BREAKDOWN --- p.52 / APPENDIX IV SUMMARY OF PRIMARY DATA --- p.54 / bibliography --- p.56