Temporal and spatial dependence of new construction in Taipei city-a study of product pricing

• Main Authors: Chi, Kai Ting, 紀凱婷
• Other Authors: 張金鶚
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/60980377906652850847

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 地政研究所 === 96 === It is well-known from the literature that the values of real estates are highly dependent on their locational and market characteristics of the buildings in adjacent areas. Spatial dependence mainly derives from factors that buildings at nearby properties have similar structural features (which were often developed at the same time) and often share the same social welfare. As developers in making decisions on product strategy will make reference to the strategy of nearby products of competitive cases which developed during the same time, therefore, within a certain period of time, the adjacent new construction will often have similar construction attributes as well as similar products pricing. Not only the pricing of a new construction is likely to be related to the pricing of adjacent new construction, but also the pricing of a new construction would be prone to autocorrelation decays in accordance with time distance. The aim of this paper is to analyze on how to take this temporal and spatial dependence into account in the pricing model of the new construction in the most appropriate way. We use a database of 582 asking prices of real estate developers in Taipei city. Two indices for measuring spatial autocorrelation are considered including (i) Moran’s I Index and (ii) LISA’s Index. We compared the predictive ability of three models including (i) OLS model, (ii) spatial lag model, and (iii) spatial error model. Moreover, we discussed the different temporal and spatial weight matrices in the spatial error model. According to our research results, we concluded that spatial statistical models obviously perform better than the traditional OLS model. Temporal and spatial statistical models would provide more accurate predictions on the pricing of a new construction than spatial statistical models do. The research result reveals that the best pricing model of the new construction is temporal and spatial statistical models which include temporal and spatial correlation.