Chia‐lin Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 1666019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chia‐lin Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chia‐lin |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3286-2505 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 111 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Spatial-temporal dynamics of housing bubbles in Greater Sydney
Housing prices in Greater Sydney have risen sharply over the past two decades, raising concerns about speculative overvaluation and spatially uneven housing bubble formation. While prior research has examined housing bubbles at aggregated city scales, limited attention has been given to their spatial-temporal dynamics across nested submarkets. This study develops a macro–micro framework to analyse housing bubble formation across SA4 (regional) an…
Overcoming construction constraints for the supply of new detached and high-rise housing
This Inquiry provides the first significant examination of the Australian construction sector’s ability to deliver both detached and high-rise housing. It analyses construction workflows, markets, regulation, workforce, technologies and supply chains. The housing construction industry in Australia is at crisis point. The rate of Australia’s detached housing output has been largely static since at least 1980. Apartment construction can lift in res…
Transforming high-rise housing construction
Sectoral effect of ESG on financial performance
This study examines the sectoral impact of ESG ratings on the financial returns of global REITs, with particular focus on the hotel sector. Using a dataset of 5,241 firm-year observations of global REITs from 37 countries spanning 2001 to 2022, we examine the relationship between ESG scores and the financial performance of hotel REITs and compare it with that in other real estate sectors. ESG ratings are sourced from MSCI, while financial data is…
The role of price spillovers in the Australian housing crisis
Australia's soaring housing prices have intensified affordability concerns, with a key emerging issue being the widening price gap between houses and units. While prior spillover studies primarily examined how housing booms spread between cities, this research introduces a novel two-market spillover model that augments the traditional Diebold-Yilmaz framework to capture both house-unit spillover disparities and cross-market interactions within an…
Climate policy uncertainty and housing dynamics
As climate change intensifies, frequent shifts in climate strategies and international negotiations have created substantial climate policy uncertainty (CPU). This study examines the effects of CPU on China's housing market, an especially relevant context given China's status as the world's largest carbon emitter and its rapidly evolving climate policy landscape. Using transaction data from 35 major Chinese cities (2010–2022) and panel fixed-effe…
Environmental drivers of housing prices and thermal inequality using satellite imagery
Exploring the nexus between entry affordability and rent affordability in the private rental market of greater Melbourne
Recognising the discrepancies in the features of dwelling types, we adopted a submarket model using quarterly panel data for 31 local government areas (LGAs) of Greater Melbourne, spanning March 2000 to December 2021, and documented the following findings. First, challenging entry affordability is causing a deterioration of rent affordability in the private rental housing market. As entry to the market has become a difficult venture for prospecti…
Land rights, resource allocation and urban settlement choices of migrant workers in Yunnan, Western China
Using the cross-sectional data from the 2015 and 2021 Yunnan Migrant Workers Urban Integration Survey , this study assesses the different effects of the three types of land rights that migrant workers possess in their rural hometowns on their urban settlement choices in Yunnan, western China. Specifically, it examined the existence of migrant workers moving between urban and rural areas in response to the importance of land rights for rural migra…
Residential segregation of Chinese minority groups in Greater Sydney
Over the years, migration to the major cities of advanced economies has culminated in residential segregation for minority groups. These segregated communities often have differing driving forces and demographic characteristics. Greater Sydney, for instance, has been home to waves of immigrants, particularly from China, making the Chinese the third-largest immigrant group in Australia as of 2021. This resulted in the formation of Chinese enclaves…
The non-linear dynamics of South Australian regional housing markets
Traditional linear models often struggle to capture regional housing markets' complex, non-linear dynamics. This study addresses this gap by developing and applying advanced machine learning algorithms to unlock unique insights into South Australian housing price behavior. Leveraging a comprehensive dataset of over 10,000 regional house sales from 2010 to 2021, we explore the non-linear relationships between housing prices and microeconomic facto…
Entry affordability of employment types
With the prevailing uncertainties in the labour market, existing literature has not adequately covered the link between employment contracts of part-time and full-time employees with entry to the housing market. We examine the current entry affordability of these income earners for strata and non-strata property types using data from 2004 to 2021 and forecasted this index for the period 2022Q1 to 2031Q4 for each of the metropolis of three cities …
Reducing clients’ influence in property valuation
Clients' influence remains a significant issue in the property valuation industry, particularly in emerging countries like Nigeria, where existing solutions have proven ineffective. This study, therefore, considers blockchain technology as a medium for delivering information transparency and explores the application of a blockchain-based tool for reducing clients' influence in property valuation. Specifically, this study is pioneering in proposin…
Exploring the spatialisation of the performance of residential Reits investment and direct investment in the housing market
Despite numerous studies about the housing sector, the connection between the performance of residential real estate investment trusts (REITs) investment and direct investment in the housing market is still under-researched. To help fill this gap, we used quarterly data of the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) residential REITs index and direct housing returns of Australia and its major cities, spanning March 1983 to June 2021, and adopted a s…
Implementing a deep-learning model using Google street view to combine social and physical indicators of gentrification
The impact of negative gearing on the investment decisions of housing investors
To date, no empirical study has examined the impact of negative gearing and other factors on residential investors’ decisions using quantitative analysis. We applied a structural vector autoregression framework to trace the response of residential investors in Greater Sydney to shocks in its key drivers over the period 1991–2018. We discovered a residential investors’ profile in which negative gearing is being used to cushion any net rental loss …
The determinants of homeownership affordability in Greater Sydney
Recognising the existence of socio-economic and demographic disparities across metropolitan cities such as Greater Sydney, this study gauges the determinants of homeownership affordability in the different regions of Greater Sydney using local government area (LGA) data over 1991–2016 with a system generalised method of moments (GMM) and a panel error correction model (ECM). The results of the study showed that the determinants of homeownership a…
Building a predictive machine learning model of gentrification in Sydney
Urbanisation and housing finance nexus
Spatial connectivity and house price diffusion
The Reflection of Income Segregation and Accessibility Cleavages in Sydney’s House Prices
Cities often show residential income segregation, and the price of housing is generally related to employment accessibility, but how do these factors intersect? We analyse Greater Sydney, Australia, a metropolitan area of 5 million people. Sydney is found to have reasonably even employment accessibility by car, reflecting the increasingly polycentric nature of the modern city; however, it also shows considerable income segregation and variance in…
Spatial Variability of the ‘Airbnb Effect’
Over the last decade, the emergence and significant growth of home-sharing platforms, such as Airbnb, has coincided with rising housing unaffordability in many global cities. It is in this context that we look to empirically assess the impact of Airbnb on housing prices in Sydney—one of the least affordable cities in the world. Employing a hedonic property valuation model, our results indicate that Airbnb’s overall effect is positive. A 1% increa…
Housing price bubbles in Greater Sydney
Recognising the rapid increase in housing prices and the presence of socio-economic and demographic disparities that often characterise a metropolitan city, we adopted a sub-city approach and deployed an array of methods to detect bubbles in the different regions of Greater Sydney – western, inner-west, southern, eastern and northern – over 1991 to 2016, using Westerlund error correction-based panel cointegration, backward supremum augmented Dick…
Transportation infrastructure improvement and real estate value
House price diffusion of housing submarkets in Greater Sydney
Despite numerous studies investigating house price diffusion between regional cities, few have considered a spillover effect among housing submarkets within a metropolitan city. This study expands upon the limited literature to examine house price diffusion of housing submarkets (namely, low-priced and high-priced submarkets) in Greater Sydney, one of the most diverse housing markets in Australia, using convergence tests, cointegration techniques…
The Politics of Foreign Investment in Australian Housing
This article analyses the cultural, housing and intergovernmental politics of individual foreign investment in Australian real estate. The first section provides a brief history of Australia's housing system and shows the historical trend toward housing affordability 'problems' in Sydney and Melbourne. This review interrogates the claim Chinese investors compounded Australia's housing affordability problem after the global financial crisis. The s…
The differential geography of housing affordability in Sydney
Despite extensive studies being devoted to housing affordability in Australia, few have investigated housing affordability at a disaggregated level. This is in spite of the fact that there are existing socio-economic and demographic disparities across different regions of a city. This study aims to fill this gap by examining housing affordability in Sydney, a city that is characterised by diverse demographic and socio-economic mix, from a sub-cit…
The Relationship between Housing Market Intervention for First-Time Buyers and House Price Volatility
Declining homeownership rates as observed in many western countries have direct and indirect implications for the broader economy; hence, governments have been seeking an effective solution to address this decline. One of the major challenges is the decline in overall homeownership rates with an increasing proportion of households deciding to rent rather than purchase. However, it is surprising that the impact on the housing market following the …
House price diffusion of housing submarkets in Greater Sydney
Despite numerous studies investigating house price diffusion between regional cities, few have considered a spillover effect among housing submarkets within a metropolitan city. This study expands upon the limited literature to examine house price diffusion of housing submarkets (namely, low-priced and high-priced submarkets) in Greater Sydney, one of the most diverse housing markets in Australia, using convergence tests, cointegration techniques…
Urbanisation and housing finance nexus
Housing price bubbles in Greater Sydney
Recognising the rapid increase in housing prices and the presence of socio-economic and demographic disparities that often characterise a metropolitan city, we adopted a sub-city approach and deployed an array of methods to detect bubbles in the different regions of Greater Sydney – western, inner-west, southern, eastern and northern – over 1991 to 2016, using Westerlund error correction-based panel cointegration, backward supremum augmented Dick…
Building a predictive machine learning model of gentrification in Sydney
Exploring the spatialisation of the performance of residential Reits investment and direct investment in the housing market
Despite numerous studies about the housing sector, the connection between the performance of residential real estate investment trusts (REITs) investment and direct investment in the housing market is still under-researched. To help fill this gap, we used quarterly data of the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) residential REITs index and direct housing returns of Australia and its major cities, spanning March 1983 to June 2021, and adopted a s…
Spatial mismatch, enclave effects and employment outcomes for rural migrant workers
Land rights, resource allocation and urban settlement choices of migrant workers in Yunnan, Western China
Using the cross-sectional data from the 2015 and 2021 Yunnan Migrant Workers Urban Integration Survey , this study assesses the different effects of the three types of land rights that migrant workers possess in their rural hometowns on their urban settlement choices in Yunnan, western China. Specifically, it examined the existence of migrant workers moving between urban and rural areas in response to the importance of land rights for rural migra…
The determinants of homeownership affordability in Greater Sydney
Recognising the existence of socio-economic and demographic disparities across metropolitan cities such as Greater Sydney, this study gauges the determinants of homeownership affordability in the different regions of Greater Sydney using local government area (LGA) data over 1991–2016 with a system generalised method of moments (GMM) and a panel error correction model (ECM). The results of the study showed that the determinants of homeownership a…
Spatial connectivity and house price diffusion
Residential segregation of Chinese minority groups in Greater Sydney
Over the years, migration to the major cities of advanced economies has culminated in residential segregation for minority groups. These segregated communities often have differing driving forces and demographic characteristics. Greater Sydney, for instance, has been home to waves of immigrants, particularly from China, making the Chinese the third-largest immigrant group in Australia as of 2021. This resulted in the formation of Chinese enclaves…
Environmental drivers of housing prices and thermal inequality using satellite imagery
Entry affordability of employment types
With the prevailing uncertainties in the labour market, existing literature has not adequately covered the link between employment contracts of part-time and full-time employees with entry to the housing market. We examine the current entry affordability of these income earners for strata and non-strata property types using data from 2004 to 2021 and forecasted this index for the period 2022Q1 to 2031Q4 for each of the metropolis of three cities …
Language of the Aging Brain
Normal aging brings increased richness in knowledge and experience as well as declines in cognitive abilities. Event-related brain potential (ERP) studies of language comprehension corroborate findings showing that the structure and organization of semantic knowledge remains relatively stable with age. Highlighting the advantages of the temporal and functional specificity of ERPs, this survey focuses on age-related changes in higher-level process…
Language of the Aging Brain
Normal aging brings increased richness in knowledge and experience as well as declines in cognitive abilities. Event-related brain potential (ERP) studies of language comprehension corroborate findings showing that the structure and organization of semantic knowledge remains relatively stable with age. Highlighting the advantages of the temporal and functional specificity of ERPs, this survey focuses on age-related changes in higher-level process…
The Relationship between Housing Market Intervention for First-Time Buyers and House Price Volatility
Declining homeownership rates as observed in many western countries have direct and indirect implications for the broader economy; hence, governments have been seeking an effective solution to address this decline. One of the major challenges is the decline in overall homeownership rates with an increasing proportion of households deciding to rent rather than purchase. However, it is surprising that the impact on the housing market following the …
The Politics of Foreign Investment in Australian Housing
This article analyses the cultural, housing and intergovernmental politics of individual foreign investment in Australian real estate. The first section provides a brief history of Australia's housing system and shows the historical trend toward housing affordability 'problems' in Sydney and Melbourne. This review interrogates the claim Chinese investors compounded Australia's housing affordability problem after the global financial crisis. The s…
Spatial mismatch, enclave effects and employment outcomes for rural migrant workers
The differential geography of housing affordability in Sydney
Despite extensive studies being devoted to housing affordability in Australia, few have investigated housing affordability at a disaggregated level. This is in spite of the fact that there are existing socio-economic and demographic disparities across different regions of a city. This study aims to fill this gap by examining housing affordability in Sydney, a city that is characterised by diverse demographic and socio-economic mix, from a sub-cit…
House price diffusion of housing submarkets in Greater Sydney
Despite numerous studies investigating house price diffusion between regional cities, few have considered a spillover effect among housing submarkets within a metropolitan city. This study expands upon the limited literature to examine house price diffusion of housing submarkets (namely, low-priced and high-priced submarkets) in Greater Sydney, one of the most diverse housing markets in Australia, using convergence tests, cointegration techniques…
Transportation infrastructure improvement and real estate value
The Reflection of Income Segregation and Accessibility Cleavages in Sydney’s House Prices
Cities often show residential income segregation, and the price of housing is generally related to employment accessibility, but how do these factors intersect? We analyse Greater Sydney, Australia, a metropolitan area of 5 million people. Sydney is found to have reasonably even employment accessibility by car, reflecting the increasingly polycentric nature of the modern city; however, it also shows considerable income segregation and variance in…
Spatial Variability of the ‘Airbnb Effect’
Over the last decade, the emergence and significant growth of home-sharing platforms, such as Airbnb, has coincided with rising housing unaffordability in many global cities. It is in this context that we look to empirically assess the impact of Airbnb on housing prices in Sydney—one of the least affordable cities in the world. Employing a hedonic property valuation model, our results indicate that Airbnb’s overall effect is positive. A 1% increa…
Housing price bubbles in Greater Sydney
Recognising the rapid increase in housing prices and the presence of socio-economic and demographic disparities that often characterise a metropolitan city, we adopted a sub-city approach and deployed an array of methods to detect bubbles in the different regions of Greater Sydney – western, inner-west, southern, eastern and northern – over 1991 to 2016, using Westerlund error correction-based panel cointegration, backward supremum augmented Dick…
Implementing a deep-learning model using Google street view to combine social and physical indicators of gentrification
The impact of negative gearing on the investment decisions of housing investors
To date, no empirical study has examined the impact of negative gearing and other factors on residential investors’ decisions using quantitative analysis. We applied a structural vector autoregression framework to trace the response of residential investors in Greater Sydney to shocks in its key drivers over the period 1991–2018. We discovered a residential investors’ profile in which negative gearing is being used to cushion any net rental loss …
The determinants of homeownership affordability in Greater Sydney
Recognising the existence of socio-economic and demographic disparities across metropolitan cities such as Greater Sydney, this study gauges the determinants of homeownership affordability in the different regions of Greater Sydney using local government area (LGA) data over 1991–2016 with a system generalised method of moments (GMM) and a panel error correction model (ECM). The results of the study showed that the determinants of homeownership a…
Building a predictive machine learning model of gentrification in Sydney
Urbanisation and housing finance nexus
Spatial connectivity and house price diffusion
The non-linear dynamics of South Australian regional housing markets
Traditional linear models often struggle to capture regional housing markets' complex, non-linear dynamics. This study addresses this gap by developing and applying advanced machine learning algorithms to unlock unique insights into South Australian housing price behavior. Leveraging a comprehensive dataset of over 10,000 regional house sales from 2010 to 2021, we explore the non-linear relationships between housing prices and microeconomic facto…
Entry affordability of employment types
With the prevailing uncertainties in the labour market, existing literature has not adequately covered the link between employment contracts of part-time and full-time employees with entry to the housing market. We examine the current entry affordability of these income earners for strata and non-strata property types using data from 2004 to 2021 and forecasted this index for the period 2022Q1 to 2031Q4 for each of the metropolis of three cities …
Reducing clients’ influence in property valuation
Clients' influence remains a significant issue in the property valuation industry, particularly in emerging countries like Nigeria, where existing solutions have proven ineffective. This study, therefore, considers blockchain technology as a medium for delivering information transparency and explores the application of a blockchain-based tool for reducing clients' influence in property valuation. Specifically, this study is pioneering in proposin…
Exploring the spatialisation of the performance of residential Reits investment and direct investment in the housing market
Despite numerous studies about the housing sector, the connection between the performance of residential real estate investment trusts (REITs) investment and direct investment in the housing market is still under-researched. To help fill this gap, we used quarterly data of the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) residential REITs index and direct housing returns of Australia and its major cities, spanning March 1983 to June 2021, and adopted a s…
Exploring the nexus between entry affordability and rent affordability in the private rental market of greater Melbourne
Recognising the discrepancies in the features of dwelling types, we adopted a submarket model using quarterly panel data for 31 local government areas (LGAs) of Greater Melbourne, spanning March 2000 to December 2021, and documented the following findings. First, challenging entry affordability is causing a deterioration of rent affordability in the private rental housing market. As entry to the market has become a difficult venture for prospecti…
Land rights, resource allocation and urban settlement choices of migrant workers in Yunnan, Western China
Using the cross-sectional data from the 2015 and 2021 Yunnan Migrant Workers Urban Integration Survey , this study assesses the different effects of the three types of land rights that migrant workers possess in their rural hometowns on their urban settlement choices in Yunnan, western China. Specifically, it examined the existence of migrant workers moving between urban and rural areas in response to the importance of land rights for rural migra…
Residential segregation of Chinese minority groups in Greater Sydney
Over the years, migration to the major cities of advanced economies has culminated in residential segregation for minority groups. These segregated communities often have differing driving forces and demographic characteristics. Greater Sydney, for instance, has been home to waves of immigrants, particularly from China, making the Chinese the third-largest immigrant group in Australia as of 2021. This resulted in the formation of Chinese enclaves…
Spatial-temporal dynamics of housing bubbles in Greater Sydney
Housing prices in Greater Sydney have risen sharply over the past two decades, raising concerns about speculative overvaluation and spatially uneven housing bubble formation. While prior research has examined housing bubbles at aggregated city scales, limited attention has been given to their spatial-temporal dynamics across nested submarkets. This study develops a macro–micro framework to analyse housing bubble formation across SA4 (regional) an…
Overcoming construction constraints for the supply of new detached and high-rise housing
This Inquiry provides the first significant examination of the Australian construction sector’s ability to deliver both detached and high-rise housing. It analyses construction workflows, markets, regulation, workforce, technologies and supply chains. The housing construction industry in Australia is at crisis point. The rate of Australia’s detached housing output has been largely static since at least 1980. Apartment construction can lift in res…
Economics (19 works) · Housing Market and Economics (19 works) · Geography (13 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (13 works) · Business (11 works) · Finance (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Economic geography (6 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works)