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Hot property in New Zealand: Empirical evidence of housing bubbles in the metropolitan centres

Hot property in New Zealand: Empirical evidence of housing bubbles in the metropolitan centres
Hot property in New Zealand: Empirical evidence of housing bubbles in the metropolitan centres

Using recently developed statistical methods for testing and dating exuberant behaviour in asset prices we document evidence of episodic bubbles in the New Zealand property market over the past two decades. The results show clear evidence of a broad-based New Zealand housing bubble that began in 2003 and collapsed over mid-2007 to early 2008 with the onset of the worldwide recession and the financial crisis. New methods of analysing market contagion are also developed and are used to examine spillovers from the Auckland property market to the other metropolitan centres. Evidence from the latest data reveals that the greater Auckland metropolitan area is currently experiencing a new property bubble that began in 2013. But there is no evidence yet of any contagion effect of this bubble on the other centres, in contrast to the earlier bubble over 2003–2008 for which there is evidence of transmission of the housing bubble from Auckland to the other centres. One of our primary conclusions is that the expensive nature of New Zealand real estate relative to potential earnings in rents is partly due to the sustained market exuberance that produced the broad-based bubble in house prices during the last decade and that has continued through the most recent bubble experienced in the Auckland region since 2013.

bubble, collapse, contagion, dating methods, exuberance, house prices, property market, sup test
0077-9954
88-113
Greenaway-McGrevy, Ryan
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Phillips, Peter C B
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Greenaway-McGrevy, Ryan
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Phillips, Peter C B
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Greenaway-McGrevy, Ryan and Phillips, Peter C B (2016) Hot property in New Zealand: Empirical evidence of housing bubbles in the metropolitan centres. New Zealand Economic Papers, 50 (1), 88-113. (doi:10.1080/00779954.2015.1065903).

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Abstract

Using recently developed statistical methods for testing and dating exuberant behaviour in asset prices we document evidence of episodic bubbles in the New Zealand property market over the past two decades. The results show clear evidence of a broad-based New Zealand housing bubble that began in 2003 and collapsed over mid-2007 to early 2008 with the onset of the worldwide recession and the financial crisis. New methods of analysing market contagion are also developed and are used to examine spillovers from the Auckland property market to the other metropolitan centres. Evidence from the latest data reveals that the greater Auckland metropolitan area is currently experiencing a new property bubble that began in 2013. But there is no evidence yet of any contagion effect of this bubble on the other centres, in contrast to the earlier bubble over 2003–2008 for which there is evidence of transmission of the housing bubble from Auckland to the other centres. One of our primary conclusions is that the expensive nature of New Zealand real estate relative to potential earnings in rents is partly due to the sustained market exuberance that produced the broad-based bubble in house prices during the last decade and that has continued through the most recent bubble experienced in the Auckland region since 2013.

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Accepted/In Press date: 21 June 2015
e-pub ahead of print date: 6 August 2015
Published date: 2 January 2016
Keywords: bubble, collapse, contagion, dating methods, exuberance, house prices, property market, sup test

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Local EPrints ID: 413625
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/413625
ISSN: 0077-9954
PURE UUID: 18fd83be-969f-430a-8621-ba4fde50456e
ORCID for Peter C B Phillips: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2341-0451

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Date deposited: 30 Aug 2017 16:31
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 15:50

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Author: Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy

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