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Efficiency in the market for cooperative dwellings
Silje Eretveit, Karl Robertsen and Theis Theisen
Department of Economics and Business Administration University of AgderNorway
Introduction• Efficiency in housing markets important
• Efficiency over time: Case and Shiller (1989)
• Efficiency with respect to financial arrangements:
Goodman and Goodman (2007)
Kelley (1998)
Schill et. al (2007)
Hjalmarsson and Hjalmarsson (2009)
Robertsen and Theisen (2011)
•The present paper builds on RT and HH
Norwegian housing cooperatives• 15 % of dwellings in the country are cooperative
• Housing cooperatives non-profit institutions. Special law
• To obtain a co-op one has to buy a share in the cooperative
• A share in the cooperative gives the right to use a specific dwelling
• The shareholder is free to sell his unit on ordinary market conditions
• Housing cooperatives are partly financed by mutual debt
• The mutual debt is paid down through monthly rent
• The interest rate on mutual debt is in Norway lower than on private
debt
•All shareholders are formally responsible for the full mutual debt
The price of a co-op
The price of a dwelling in a housing cooperative consists of two elements:
• An equity price determined through a normal competitive bidding
process
• The mutual debt: Each dwelling carries a share of the debt held
by the cooperative. The living space of the dwelling determines the
share of mutual debt affiliated with the dwelling
We consider two identical dwellings•Dwelling A carries a mutual debt
Mutual debt is paid down through rent.
At time 0, the dwelling is bought at the price
•Dwelling B carries no mutual debt
At time 0, the dwelling is bought at the price
The full purchasing price has to be financed privately
•What is the relationship between , and ?
•How do equity-prices of the two dwellings change over time (Assume zero inflation: Price of dwelling B constant
0M
0AE
0BE
0AE 0
BE 0M
The financial effects for holders of the two dwellings:•Dwelling A
- Lower interest paiments than dwelling B
- „Overprice“ when the dwelling is bought
- Capital loss when the dwelling is sold
•Dwelling B
- Since we abstract form inflation, the price that the
dwelling can be sold for is constant over time
Time
P
T
0AE
0M
tP
tAE
0 0 0AE M
0BE
0
The relationship between equity prices at time 0
0 0 0 0
0
1
T tp M t it
A B T
T p tt
i i dE E M
d i d
Înterest discount effect
The model can be estimated if mutual debt is known(Robertsen and Theisen (2011))
The case when mutual debt is not observed(Hjalmarsson and Hjalmarsson (2009)
t t t ti M i i iR i M a M bA
tt i ii t
M i
R bAM
i a
Rent-function:
gives:
Substitution into equity-relationship, with, :
00 0 0 0
0 0
1 1
T Ttp M t i p M tt ti i
A B T TM i M iT p t T p tt t
i i d i i dR AE E b
i a i ad i d d i d
0t ti iR R
Asumptions (of Hjalmarson and Hjalmarson):
1ti
p Mi i
ia a
Yield the HH-equation;
00 0 1 i iA B
M M
R AE E b
i a i a
Easily estimated IF a is known
We estimate the two regression functions:
0ˆˆHH HH HH HH HH
i R MAINT iP X R A Y Z
00RT RT RT RT RT
i M iP X M Y Z
Dwellings in housing cooperatives (N=1050)
Minimum Maximum Mean St. deviation
Equity price 55 000 3 600 000 1 504 910 451 656
Mutual debt -23 323 2 700 000 279 608 391 443
Rent 975 13 531 3 162 1 455
Size 23 174 71 21
Age 1 65 37 16
Data: All co-op transactions 2009-2010 in Kristiansand municipality
Mutual debt PV annual rent PV maintenance Size Age
Mutual debt 1 0,6163 0,0526 0,1510 -0,7053
PV annual rent 1 0,5728 0,3200 -0,5130
PV maintenance 1 0,3821 -0,0831
Size 1 -0,1981
Age 1
Correlation matrix
(t-values in parentheses)
Conclusions:
•Empirical support for efficient prices in the Robertsen-Theisen model• The efficiency hypothesis is rejected when the Hjalmarsson-Hjalmarsson model is used with their original assumptions.•Problem: The payback-rate for mutual debt must in the HH-model be pegged prior to estimation. The results are very sensitive to the magnitude chosen for this parameter. Also other assumptions in the HH-model are problematic.