In the housing market, the government's housing policies are largely divided into two ways, those are, a direct intervention policy and an indirect intervention policy. The former means what the government directly intervenes in the housing market, bu...
In the housing market, the government's housing policies are largely divided into two ways, those are, a direct intervention policy and an indirect intervention policy. The former means what the government directly intervenes in the housing market, but the latter means what it makes a detour through deregulation and economic inducements. Housing policies from the past show that the direct and indirect intervention for stability of housing market has caused fluctuation of housing price.
This study was focused on analyzing the influence of national housing policies on housing price for metropolitan areas. Three questions were put as in the following so as to compass the purpose of this study.
First, how did the government's direct intervention policies influence the stability of housing price?
Second, how did the government's indirect intervention policies influence the stability of housing price?
Third, housing price is unavoidably influenced by external factors including economic trends. In this study, money supply and the price index of controls were regarded as statistic variables in order to ascertain correlativity with housing price.
In this study, the intervention in the housing market, based on the government's housing policy, was set up as an independent variable. Also, direct intervention and indirect intervention were set up as a subordinate sphere. In respect to a dependent variable, housing price was set up as a factor of the metropolitan's four areas. With regard to influential parameter, it was ascertained how an economic trend will influence housing policies and housing price in consideration of money supply and the price index of stocks.
The result of this analysis are as follows :
First, the direct intervention in housing policies significantly influenced housing price in the metropolitan area (Seoul, Gyeonggi Province, Incheon, and Gangnam).
Second, the indirect intervention in housing policies did not significantly influence housing price in the metropolitan area (Seoul, Gyeonggi Province, Incheon, and Gangnam).
Third, in the metropolitan area (Seoul, Gyeonggi Province, Incheon and Gangnam), both money supply and the price index of stocks significantly influenced housing price though the correlativity of the latter was lower than that of other factors.
Through the results, it is concluded that housing price was remarkably influenced by direct intervention as compared with indirect intervention.
However, the result just means direct intervention is comparatively more effective to stabilize housing pricethan indirect intervention.
As the Korean goverments housing policies have been inconsistent and discontinuous, consumers and suppliers have been confused as well as housing price has been insecure. On that account, the direct intervention policy based on price control is structurally effective for the national housing price. The government should carry out the direct intervention policy consistently and continuously in the short run, as well as should weigh the autonomy of the market and the principle of the market economy in the long run. We should pay regard to the fact that the market based on economic means and economic motivation plays an important role in developing a sustainable housing policy.