Jhon Alexander Bueno. Determinants of Housing Price: The Case of Bucaramanga (Colombia). (). สำนักวิทยบริการและสารสนเทศ มหาวิทยาลัยนานาชาติเอเชีย-แปซิฟิก. : , .
Determinants of Housing Price: The Case of Bucaramanga (Colombia)
The housing prices in the city of Bucaramanga (Colombia) experienced a constant increase from
2006, raising fears that a housing bubble could happen in the growing city. Stiglitz (1990) explains a
bubble as a constant increase in the price of a financial asset that is not justified by economic
fundamentals. The purpose of this study was to find out if the increasing housing price in
Bucaramanga from 2007-2014 could be attributed to a housing bubble, or could be explained as the
result of other factors. Quarterly data for this period was used to analyze the response of house
prices to changes in national and local economic fundamentals. House prices data for the city
allowed a multiple regression analysis of several economic factors (area licensed for construction,
construction cost, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), mortgage interest, unemployment, inflation) to
establish the main determinants of its behavior. The study found that house prices for Bucaramanga
varied significantly in their response to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) trend. Hence, GDP was found
to be the only significant predictor of housing prices among the independent variables selected for
the study.