An Analysis of Shocks Affecting House Prices in Iran and Its Convergence with the Housing Market in Selected Countries

The housing sector is one of the most important economic sectors in terms of household expenditure and GDP and its role in changing macroeconomic index such as economic growth and employment. Given the importance of the housing sector in the economy and there is a lot of volatility in this sector, in this study, the factors affecting the price of housing has been Including stock indices, liquidity, the price of gold and shocks caused by the housing market countries, United Arabic Emirates, Turkey, Greece and Cyprus will be discussed. Also, the convergence of housing prices between Iran and selected countries will be evaluated. To analyze the effect of shocks from Structural Vector Auto Regressive and housing price index for the convergence Iran and selected countries Johansson model is used by quarterly data from 2007 to 2015. Data is extracted from the stock exchange database of Iran, Central Bank of selected countries. The results that show the housing shocks in selected countries don't impact on the price of housing; Liquidity shocks is effective and stock index shocks and gold prices have no effect on Iran's House Price Index. The share of housing prices in selected countries fluctuations of housing prices forecast error in the short-term is up, but in the long run is reduced. Controlling the volume of liquidity and orienting towards production are effective policies in the short term to stabilize housing prices. The findings also confirmed the convergence relationship between Iran and selected countries in the long-term housing price index. This reflects the contagion of the crisis in the housing market of the countries. Therefore, it is necessary to rebuild the housing market against crises.