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Introduction
Over the past decade, prices in housing markets have
been particularly volatile
throughout the world. The housing market and its
derivatives, traditionally viewed
as low-risk and defensive markets, were at the heart
of the recent global financial
turmoil, triggered by the US subprime mortgage
crisis and the Lehman Brothers
crisis. As such, examining the factors that impact
housing prices, as well as the
influence of housing price changes on other related
markes, is important.
The housing market has always been highly volatile,
and housing prices are
difficult to estimate and forecast. Housing can be
used both as an expensive form
of consumption to satisfy the residential needs of the
public and as an investme
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