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A Study on Dynamic House-Rent Relationship through Jeonse-to-Rent Ratios

Hyun-Tak Lee 1

1한국자산관리공사

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ABSTRACT

This paper develops a new present-value framework in rental housing markets in Korea. To implement the model precisely, I use Seoul apartment data and devise a log price-rent ratio that is a linear combination of home prices, Jeonse, monthly deposits, and Jeonse-to-rent conversion rates. I show that the ratios strongly predict one-period-ahead conversion rates, not the long-term ones. This finding points out that the conversion rate is so transient that its shock could hardly cumulate over time, thereby little affecting the home prices in the long run. In contrast, I find that the ratios strongly forecast long-term deposit growth, not its short-term growth. The rationale behind this is that its shock is so persistent as to build up over time, which affects the home prices significantly in the end. The implication is that we should monitor an irrational swing of the deposit behavior to attenuate the excess volatility of the apartment lease market.

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