The Influence of Demographic Structure on Housing Price: An Empirical Analysis of Chongqing

Binghua Gao, Xinran He

College of Economics and Business Administration, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China.

DOI: 10.4236/me.2014.55057                

Abstract

Residential housing price affects life of tens of thousands of families. Based on the relevant data of Chongqing’s reports from 2003 to 2012, this paper studies the influence of population structure on residential housing price from the perspective of demand comprehensively. It comes up with the report that the population bring-up ratio and sex ratio have a negative influence on housing price, while sex ratio’s influence is much bigger than the population bring-up ratio. In a word, the demographic structure will cause certain influence to the residential housing price of Chongqing.

Keywords

Demographics, Imbalanced Sex Ratio, Housing Price, Empirical Study

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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