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Price competition in the spatial real estate market: allies or rivals?

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  • Shinichiro Iwata
  • Kazuto Sumita
  • Mieko Fujisawa

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This paper examines whether real estate firms can avoid price competition when properties in the vicinity are priced by allies. An oligopoly model with differentiated products generally suggests that real estate firms engage in price competition with their spatially closest rivals. Yet, they can raise property prices when the market share of their allies increases. To test this prediction, a spatial autoregressive model with spatial autoregressive disturbances, including a share of allies in the vicinity, is estimated using data on the prices of residential condos in central Tokyo, Japan. The model prediction is supported by the empirical results. In the data set, the magnitude of the market share on property prices increases with the expansion of the size of the spatial market.

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  • Shinichiro Iwata & Kazuto Sumita & Mieko Fujisawa, 2019. "Price competition in the spatial real estate market: allies or rivals?," Spatial Economic Analysis, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(2), pages 174-195, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:specan:v:14:y:2019:i:2:p:174-195
    DOI: 10.1080/17421772.2019.1532596
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