Inter-relationships between stock index with residential properties and indirect property investment in Malaysia

The implication of this study is to ascertain the wealth effect and credit price effect from various property investment vehicles to Malaysian stock index, where this can provide a guide for optimum investment portfolio decision making by understanding various characteristics. This study utilizes va...

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Main Author: Lee, Young Yee
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spelling my-utm-ep.507692020-07-12T03:20:12Z Inter-relationships between stock index with residential properties and indirect property investment in Malaysia 2014-08 Lee, Young Yee HD1394-1394.5 Real estate management The implication of this study is to ascertain the wealth effect and credit price effect from various property investment vehicles to Malaysian stock index, where this can provide a guide for optimum investment portfolio decision making by understanding various characteristics. This study utilizes various econometric tools in VECM by exploring inter-relationship between stock index with residential properties and indirect property in Malaysia. The correlation exists between stock index and property markets by common exogenous factors, such as GDP, T-Bill rate and other contagion factors. By variance decomposition, short-run indicated the significant shock from Malaysian GDP, whereas significant long-run shock from stock index to various house price index and indirect property investment, except own shocks. Contagion effects from Singapore exist, particularly to Kuala Lumpur, Selangor Penang and Johor semi-detached house price index in short-run, possible because of medium class income earning in preference in upgrade their house which benefited by increasing Singapore business activities with Malaysia. By applying Granger causality test, it was found that there was a mixture of wealth effect and credit price effect in various locality and type of properties. As for indirect property investment, interestingly, Bursa Malaysia property index having wealth effect from the Bursa Stock index, whereas, S&P Malaysian REIT index experienced creditprice effect, which adversely performed to Bursa property index. Lastly, in short-run, it proven that inflation do caused the house price index, thus housing investment can be inflation hedged. 2014-08 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/50769/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/50769/25/LeeYoungYeemMFKSG2014.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:87908 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Geoinformation and Real Estate Faculty of Geoinformation and Real Estate
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
collection UTM Institutional Repository
language English
topic HD1394-1394.5 Real estate management
spellingShingle HD1394-1394.5 Real estate management
Lee, Young Yee
Inter-relationships between stock index with residential properties and indirect property investment in Malaysia
description The implication of this study is to ascertain the wealth effect and credit price effect from various property investment vehicles to Malaysian stock index, where this can provide a guide for optimum investment portfolio decision making by understanding various characteristics. This study utilizes various econometric tools in VECM by exploring inter-relationship between stock index with residential properties and indirect property in Malaysia. The correlation exists between stock index and property markets by common exogenous factors, such as GDP, T-Bill rate and other contagion factors. By variance decomposition, short-run indicated the significant shock from Malaysian GDP, whereas significant long-run shock from stock index to various house price index and indirect property investment, except own shocks. Contagion effects from Singapore exist, particularly to Kuala Lumpur, Selangor Penang and Johor semi-detached house price index in short-run, possible because of medium class income earning in preference in upgrade their house which benefited by increasing Singapore business activities with Malaysia. By applying Granger causality test, it was found that there was a mixture of wealth effect and credit price effect in various locality and type of properties. As for indirect property investment, interestingly, Bursa Malaysia property index having wealth effect from the Bursa Stock index, whereas, S&P Malaysian REIT index experienced creditprice effect, which adversely performed to Bursa property index. Lastly, in short-run, it proven that inflation do caused the house price index, thus housing investment can be inflation hedged.
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author Lee, Young Yee
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title Inter-relationships between stock index with residential properties and indirect property investment in Malaysia
title_short Inter-relationships between stock index with residential properties and indirect property investment in Malaysia
title_full Inter-relationships between stock index with residential properties and indirect property investment in Malaysia
title_fullStr Inter-relationships between stock index with residential properties and indirect property investment in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Inter-relationships between stock index with residential properties and indirect property investment in Malaysia
title_sort inter-relationships between stock index with residential properties and indirect property investment in malaysia
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Geoinformation and Real Estate
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publishDate 2014
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