The switching-regime effect of sovereign risk components on housing prices in South African major cities
Keywords:
Housing price, sovereign risk, Markov Switching Model, Economic Risk, Financial risk, Political risk, South African CitiesAbstract
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the effect of sovereign risk components on housing prices in six major South African cities under switching regimes conditions.
Method: The Markov Switching Model was employed to analyse the switching effect of economic, financial and political risk on the property markets in major South African cities.
Results: In the bearish regime, the response of property prices to changes in country risk components varies across the cities. In contrast, country risk components do not affect property prices in the bullish regime in all sampled cities. Cape Town has the most volatile housing prices, and each city’s response to changing regimes is asymmetric, with the likelihood of staying longer in the bullish condition than the bearish market condition.
Originality: This study is the first to assess the impact of country risk factors on housing prices for South African cities with a specific focus on switching regimes.
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