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  • The Contribution of Foreign Real Estate Investment to Housing Price Growth in Australian Capital Cities

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    Guest, Ross
    Rohde, Nicholas
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    Guest, Ross
    Rohde, Nicholas
    Year published
    2017
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    This paper models the effects of foreign investment in real estate on housing prices in Australia. We use a variety of panel data models that account for cross-sectional heterogeneity across Australian cities and find that increases in investment are significant predictors of rises in the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Residential Property Price Index. Our results are generally robust and suggest that increases in foreign investment account for between 20% and 30% of the rise in housing prices between 2004 and 2014 in Sydney and Melbourne. In other capital cities the effects appear to be negligible. Some policy implications ...
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    This paper models the effects of foreign investment in real estate on housing prices in Australia. We use a variety of panel data models that account for cross-sectional heterogeneity across Australian cities and find that increases in investment are significant predictors of rises in the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Residential Property Price Index. Our results are generally robust and suggest that increases in foreign investment account for between 20% and 30% of the rise in housing prices between 2004 and 2014 in Sydney and Melbourne. In other capital cities the effects appear to be negligible. Some policy implications of our findings are discussed.
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    Journal Title
    Abacus
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1111/abac.12110
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    © 2017 Accounting Foundation, The University of Sydney. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: The Contribution of Foreign Real Estate Investment to Housing Price Growth in Australian Capital Cities, Abacus, 2017 which has been published in final form at 10.1111/abac.12110. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-828039.html)
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    This publication has been entered into Griffith Research Online as an Advanced Online Version.
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    Accounting, Auditing and Accountability not elsewhere classified
    Accounting, Auditing and Accountability
    Banking, Finance and Investment
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/343996
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