Yong Tu
Biographic Data
| ID | 5935105 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yong Tu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yong |
| FAMILY NAME | Tu |
| SIGNATURE | TU Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4581-3676 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ageing in which place? Spatial analytical framework for evaluating ageing-in-place practices
Social integration and housing behaviours of immigrants
This study investigates the impact of social integration on immigrants' housing behaviours from a temporal perspective, using Singapore's differential public housing policies on immigrants as a quasi-natural experiment. With the support of a local town council, we conducted a survey on social integration among 1128 immigrant and local households living in public housing estates. In the public open rental housing market—primarily accommodating yet…
The price of landlords’ racial and ethnic discrimination
Racial and ethnic discrimination represents a structural cause of payment disparities across groups. However, most studies focus on Western contexts and may overlook the distinctive sociohistorical dynamics that shape discriminatory behaviors. In Malaysia, where racial and ethnic relations have been influenced by a distinct colonial legacy and multicultural social fabric, landlords’ discriminatory practices have manifested differently. This study…
Understanding intracity housing market dynamics
Understanding the intracity heterogeneities in housing market dynamics across microgeographic areas is important but challenging due to infrequent transactions. Unlike traditional methods that use trend-based clustering to improve the accuracy of local housing price and rent indices, we propose a novel hybrid model that combines the state-space model and the Bayesian nonparametric clustering approach to cluster neighbourhoods according to their t…
How a mandate of minimum green building standards influences green building adoption in the private housing sector
Institution-driven urban sprawl in China
The price of quietness
Green building, pro-environmental behavior and well-being
Information asymmetry and anchoring in the housing market
Urban debates for climate change after the Kyoto Protocol
From the catalogue of environment-related publications in Urban Studies, this paper identifies and reviews 12 thought-provoking articles that have addressed the issue of climate changes and cities from complementary perspectives. It argues that to advance a holistic understanding of urban environmental issues it is necessary to embrace a broad multi-disciplinary approach, particularly as moving towards low carbon urban living will require integra…
Housing search and housing choice in urban China
This paper reports an investigation of homebuyers and the influence of local social capital (LSC) on their housing decisions. We adopt a housing search model and predict the following two effects of LSC: a homebuyer with more social capital in a given location will have a higher propensity to relocate in that location and will be able to secure a housing transaction at a more favourable price in that location. Using data from the owner-occupied h…
Buyer Exuberance and Price Premium
It has been demonstrated that the real estate market disciplines irrational price premiums. However, the persistence of price premiums begs the question of what causes price premiums in the first place. This paper seeks to examine two explanations for price premiums—the conventional information asymmetry explanation and the buyer exuberance explanation as motivated by behavioural studies. The results show that information asymmetry explains price…
An empirical analysis of Singapore households’ upgrading mobility behaviour
The Dynamics of the Singapore Private Housing Market
In this paper, a dynamic stock flow model is modified and applied to the Singapore private housing market. Two empirical models are then constructed, which offer an explanation for the dynamic patterns of both real private housing prices and new housing construction. In the long run, movements in the real GDP per capita and the total housing stock are found to have significant impacts on real housing prices, while the user cost, the public resale…
Changing Housing Wealth in the UK, 1985–1993
There is likely to be considerable cross- and within-region variation in housing wealth. This paper examines how housing wealth has varied in the United Kingdom over the boom and bust period of 1983-93. It also analyzes, for the period 1989-93, the relationship between housing wealth, household spending and labor market moves for individual households. The paper highlights the need to consider these important linkages in macroeconomic policy anal…
The Local Housing Sub-market Structure and Its Properties
This paper gives a definition of urban owner-occupier housing sub-market structure. A dynamic stock flow approach is applied to this structure to understand its short-term equilibrium properties and long-term dynamic process. The paper concludes by investigating the connections between urban owner-occupier housing sub-market operation and some wider urban issues, with further reflections on new research directions which can provide a deeper insig…
Economic perspectives on the structure of local housing systems
This paper examines the notions of market and sub‐market in the context of housing. It first proposes specific definitions and then clarifies why the general characteristics of housing are likely to generate sub‐markets and why these will tend to exhibit disequilibrium of different forms and durations. These sub‐markets may be sectoral or spatial, or indeed both. Empirical evidence on the existence of sub‐markets is put forward with respect to ce…
A Two-stage Housing Choice Forecasting Model
A new housing choice forecasting model is developed here to answer a practical question: how to forecast housing demand at a disaggregate level. Being different from the previous housing choice models, this model is derived from housing sub-market structure based on a random utility approach. Housing choice is thought to be a joint choice of all the components associated with a dwelling, These components create a huge bundle of dwelling alternati…
Economic perspectives on the structure of local housing systems
This paper examines the notions of market and sub‐market in the context of housing. It first proposes specific definitions and then clarifies why the general characteristics of housing are likely to generate sub‐markets and why these will tend to exhibit disequilibrium of different forms and durations. These sub‐markets may be sectoral or spatial, or indeed both. Empirical evidence on the existence of sub‐markets is put forward with respect to ce…
A Two-stage Housing Choice Forecasting Model
A new housing choice forecasting model is developed here to answer a practical question: how to forecast housing demand at a disaggregate level. Being different from the previous housing choice models, this model is derived from housing sub-market structure based on a random utility approach. Housing choice is thought to be a joint choice of all the components associated with a dwelling, These components create a huge bundle of dwelling alternati…
Green building, pro-environmental behavior and well-being
The Local Housing Sub-market Structure and Its Properties
This paper gives a definition of urban owner-occupier housing sub-market structure. A dynamic stock flow approach is applied to this structure to understand its short-term equilibrium properties and long-term dynamic process. The paper concludes by investigating the connections between urban owner-occupier housing sub-market operation and some wider urban issues, with further reflections on new research directions which can provide a deeper insig…
The Dynamics of the Singapore Private Housing Market
In this paper, a dynamic stock flow model is modified and applied to the Singapore private housing market. Two empirical models are then constructed, which offer an explanation for the dynamic patterns of both real private housing prices and new housing construction. In the long run, movements in the real GDP per capita and the total housing stock are found to have significant impacts on real housing prices, while the user cost, the public resale…
Institution-driven urban sprawl in China
Urban debates for climate change after the Kyoto Protocol
From the catalogue of environment-related publications in Urban Studies, this paper identifies and reviews 12 thought-provoking articles that have addressed the issue of climate changes and cities from complementary perspectives. It argues that to advance a holistic understanding of urban environmental issues it is necessary to embrace a broad multi-disciplinary approach, particularly as moving towards low carbon urban living will require integra…
An empirical analysis of Singapore households’ upgrading mobility behaviour
Information asymmetry and anchoring in the housing market
How a mandate of minimum green building standards influences green building adoption in the private housing sector
Housing search and housing choice in urban China
This paper reports an investigation of homebuyers and the influence of local social capital (LSC) on their housing decisions. We adopt a housing search model and predict the following two effects of LSC: a homebuyer with more social capital in a given location will have a higher propensity to relocate in that location and will be able to secure a housing transaction at a more favourable price in that location. Using data from the owner-occupied h…
Changing Housing Wealth in the UK, 1985–1993
There is likely to be considerable cross- and within-region variation in housing wealth. This paper examines how housing wealth has varied in the United Kingdom over the boom and bust period of 1983-93. It also analyzes, for the period 1989-93, the relationship between housing wealth, household spending and labor market moves for individual households. The paper highlights the need to consider these important linkages in macroeconomic policy anal…
Economic perspectives on the structure of local housing systems
This paper examines the notions of market and sub‐market in the context of housing. It first proposes specific definitions and then clarifies why the general characteristics of housing are likely to generate sub‐markets and why these will tend to exhibit disequilibrium of different forms and durations. These sub‐markets may be sectoral or spatial, or indeed both. Empirical evidence on the existence of sub‐markets is put forward with respect to ce…
A Two-stage Housing Choice Forecasting Model
A new housing choice forecasting model is developed here to answer a practical question: how to forecast housing demand at a disaggregate level. Being different from the previous housing choice models, this model is derived from housing sub-market structure based on a random utility approach. Housing choice is thought to be a joint choice of all the components associated with a dwelling, These components create a huge bundle of dwelling alternati…
The Local Housing Sub-market Structure and Its Properties
This paper gives a definition of urban owner-occupier housing sub-market structure. A dynamic stock flow approach is applied to this structure to understand its short-term equilibrium properties and long-term dynamic process. The paper concludes by investigating the connections between urban owner-occupier housing sub-market operation and some wider urban issues, with further reflections on new research directions which can provide a deeper insig…
Changing Housing Wealth in the UK, 1985–1993
There is likely to be considerable cross- and within-region variation in housing wealth. This paper examines how housing wealth has varied in the United Kingdom over the boom and bust period of 1983-93. It also analyzes, for the period 1989-93, the relationship between housing wealth, household spending and labor market moves for individual households. The paper highlights the need to consider these important linkages in macroeconomic policy anal…
The Dynamics of the Singapore Private Housing Market
In this paper, a dynamic stock flow model is modified and applied to the Singapore private housing market. Two empirical models are then constructed, which offer an explanation for the dynamic patterns of both real private housing prices and new housing construction. In the long run, movements in the real GDP per capita and the total housing stock are found to have significant impacts on real housing prices, while the user cost, the public resale…
An empirical analysis of Singapore households’ upgrading mobility behaviour
Buyer Exuberance and Price Premium
It has been demonstrated that the real estate market disciplines irrational price premiums. However, the persistence of price premiums begs the question of what causes price premiums in the first place. This paper seeks to examine two explanations for price premiums—the conventional information asymmetry explanation and the buyer exuberance explanation as motivated by behavioural studies. The results show that information asymmetry explains price…
Housing search and housing choice in urban China
This paper reports an investigation of homebuyers and the influence of local social capital (LSC) on their housing decisions. We adopt a housing search model and predict the following two effects of LSC: a homebuyer with more social capital in a given location will have a higher propensity to relocate in that location and will be able to secure a housing transaction at a more favourable price in that location. Using data from the owner-occupied h…
Urban debates for climate change after the Kyoto Protocol
From the catalogue of environment-related publications in Urban Studies, this paper identifies and reviews 12 thought-provoking articles that have addressed the issue of climate changes and cities from complementary perspectives. It argues that to advance a holistic understanding of urban environmental issues it is necessary to embrace a broad multi-disciplinary approach, particularly as moving towards low carbon urban living will require integra…
Information asymmetry and anchoring in the housing market
Green building, pro-environmental behavior and well-being
The price of quietness
How a mandate of minimum green building standards influences green building adoption in the private housing sector
Institution-driven urban sprawl in China
Understanding intracity housing market dynamics
Understanding the intracity heterogeneities in housing market dynamics across microgeographic areas is important but challenging due to infrequent transactions. Unlike traditional methods that use trend-based clustering to improve the accuracy of local housing price and rent indices, we propose a novel hybrid model that combines the state-space model and the Bayesian nonparametric clustering approach to cluster neighbourhoods according to their t…
Ageing in which place? Spatial analytical framework for evaluating ageing-in-place practices
Social integration and housing behaviours of immigrants
This study investigates the impact of social integration on immigrants' housing behaviours from a temporal perspective, using Singapore's differential public housing policies on immigrants as a quasi-natural experiment. With the support of a local town council, we conducted a survey on social integration among 1128 immigrant and local households living in public housing estates. In the public open rental housing market—primarily accommodating yet…
The price of landlords’ racial and ethnic discrimination
Racial and ethnic discrimination represents a structural cause of payment disparities across groups. However, most studies focus on Western contexts and may overlook the distinctive sociohistorical dynamics that shape discriminatory behaviors. In Malaysia, where racial and ethnic relations have been influenced by a distinct colonial legacy and multicultural social fabric, landlords’ discriminatory practices have manifested differently. This study…
Economics (14 works) · Housing Market and Economics (11 works) · Business (8 works) · Engineering (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (6 works) · Microeconomics (5 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (5 works) · Economic geography (4 works)