...Won Young Kim; Kang Mo Koo Purpose This study aims to investigate how disclosing COVID-19 patient visit locations affects electricity consumption in Gwangju, South Korea. It explores whether increased health risk perception leads to risk-averting behavior, such as restricting outdoor activities...

...Mesbah Fathy Sharaf; Abdelhalem Mahmoud Shahen Purpose This study aims to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Kuwait’s real estate market and the influence of macroeconomic factors, including oil prices and US interest rates, using a multimethod econometric approach. Design...

...Orhan Erdem; Zeynullah Gider Purpose This study aims to examine the causal impact of COVID-19 stringency measures on U.S. housing markets, focusing on house price returns. By analyzing the entire pandemic period, it provides a comprehensive assessment of government interventions’ effects...

... the discrepancy between listing and selling prices and identifies differences among housing types such as condominiums, detached houses and townhouses based on housing orientations and customer groups. Additionally, this study considers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Fed’s interest rate policies...

..., and the housing bubble determinants during the COVID-19 pandemic are compared to the pre-pandemic period. Findings The findings indicate that there is an asset price bubble in the housing market during the pandemic period. Furthermore, mortgage credit expansion, mortgage credit rates and the depreciation...

...Woei-Chyi Chai; Kuen-Wei Tham; Chin Tiong Cheng; Kim Wing Chong; Kai Yun Yeoh Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted the global economy, disrupting supply chains, causing job losses and altering consumer demand. In Malaysia, the real estate sector has been notably affected...

...Askar Choudhury Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic, a sudden and disruptive external shock to the USA and global economy, profoundly affected various operations. Thus, it becomes imperative to investigate the repercussions of this pandemic on the US housing market. This study investigates the impact...

...Xingrui Zhang; Eunhwa Yang Purpose Housing market research involves observing the relationships between housing value and its indicators. However, recent literature indicates that the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic could have an impact on the forecasting properties of some of the housing...

...Hongxia Tong; Asadullah Khaskheli; Amna Masood Purpose Given the evolving market integration, this study aims to explore the connectedness of 12 real estate investment trusts (REITs) during the COVID-19 period. Design/methodology/approach The connectedness of 12 REITs was examined...

...Siru Lu; Chongyu Wang; Siu Kei Wong; Shuai Shi Purpose This paper aims to examine the housing market responses to two outbreaks of respiratory diseases in Hong Kong during the Information Era – the 2003 SARS and COVID-19 outbreaks. Design/methodology/approach The authors first investigate...

...Bo Qin; Yanyan Peng; Luotong Feng Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly raised economic risk and uncertainty worldwide. How does COVID-19 affect urban housing markets? Is there any difference when different areas encounter COVID-19? This study aims to investigate the impacts...

...Chung Yim Edward Yiu; Ka Shing Cheung; Daniel Wong Purpose This study aims to identify the pandemic’s impact on house rents by applying a rental gradient analysis to compare the pre-and post-COVID-19 periods in Auckland. The micro-level household census data from the Integrated Data Infrastructure...

..., the unemployment rate has a significant impact on the residential property price and has a negative relationship. Similar to the wage that shows the negative relationship with residential property prices. Moreover, during the pandemic COVID-19 in Malaysia, this research shows a more transparent view...

...Junfeng Jiao; Mira R. Bhat; Amin Azimian; Akhil Mandalapu; Arya Farahi Purpose This study aims to analyze the impact of technology-based corporation relocation on housing price indices during COVID-19 within the metropolitan areas of Austin, Texas and Seattle/Bellevue, Washington.The corporations...

... the mortgage crisis in the USA in very recent history, the world has been experiencing the evolution of a new health crisis, COVID-19, a pandemic that has been heavily affecting the global economy in the past two years. The housing sector is among one of the major industries that may be affected by this new...

... and It supports the arguments by providing some emerging evidence from property markets in developed countries. Findings The authors argue that due to the unique nature of the COVID-19 crisis, it will have a different and long-term impact on housing wealth inequality. Changes in the working arrangements...

...Raed Khamis Alharbi Purpose For almost two years, the economic shocks and financial uncertainty created by the Covid-19 pandemic have affected all sectors. The private sector employees may be the worst hit. This is because of the lockdown across many countries, including the Kingdom of Saudi...

...Mira R. Bhat; Junfeng Jiao; Amin Azimian Purpose This study aims to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on housing price within four major metropolitan areas in Texas: Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. The analysis intends to understand economic and mobility drivers behind the housing market...

... immigrants. The insights can help devise and implement housing assistance programs to address the challenges arising from the post-COVID-19 pandemic phase. Findings The results indicate that unaffordability declines with increasing age, education and full-time employment. Gender dynamics are evident...

...Matthew Allen-Coghlan; Kieran Michael McQuinn Purpose This paper aims to examine the implications for the Irish housing market of the economic slowdown due to the Covid-19 virus. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, an inverted demand function for housing is augmented to include...