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An Empirical Analysis on the Change of Conversion Rate by the Amount of Security Deposit in Seoul Office Rental Market

Min, Seonghun 1

1수원대학교

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ABSTRACT

A security deposit is traded between the landlord (demander) and the tenant (supplier) for the purpose of leverage as well as security functions in Korea. In this study, the relationship between the amount of security deposit and the conversion rate is analyzed through office market data in Seoul. The amount of security deposit is calculated by two methods: the security deposit to monthly rent ratio (DTR) and security deposit to value ratio (DTV). DTR is related to the security function. The conversion rate would decrease as DTR increases because the marginal utility of the landlord would decrease as DTR increases. However, DTV is related to the leverage function. The conversion rate would increase as DTV increases because the risk premium for the tenant would increase as DTV increases. Empirical results suggest that the hypotheses above are significantly substantiated, so the relationship between the amount of security deposit and the conversion rate is not linear. This result has been the case for several literatures on the residential and retail property markets in Korea.

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