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The Research of the Relations between High-Rise HousingVacancy
Rate and the Living Environment in TaichungAbstract Habitation
is the basic living requirement of people. With the limited land
resource, the housing development plays an important role on the
process of a citys development. But due to the different
characters of housing markets to other general property, it isnt
easy to understand its essences and questions. Based on the
housing census report of Taiwan Province in 1990, there were
670,000 vacant housing in Taiwan. The vacancy rate was up to
13.11%. And Taichung City had the highest rate, 19.87% in
Taiwan. Comparing with the rates of the highly developed
countries, about 3% to 5%, it is much higher. As for the
national economy, the excess vacant housing are wasting the
countrys limited resources. Also, as for the housing market, in
addition to the failure of the effective demand and supply at
the market, it also influences the construction investors
motivation of building. The factors which cause vacant housing
are very complicate. The research is based on the concept that
housing is multifaceted commodities. It investigates the
relations between high-rise housing vacancy rate and the living
environment in Taichung with the view of housing buyers demand
for living environment, which can be the reference for
investors. In addition, refer to the related documents and
researches, the research discusses the characters of living
environment with two levels:「building」and「neighborhood」. It
also takes the residence type as the example to establish a
vacancy rate regression model to understand the correlation
between environments characters and vacancy rate and the
influences.As the result of the investigation, the average
vacancy rate of the high-rise housing in Taichung is 22.30%.
However, due to the peoples preference, the vacancy rate of
suites which is about 25.25% is much higher than the rate of the
general residences which is about 21.89%. In addition, because
there are more high-rise housing in the fast-developed areas or
areas with high population growth, like Nan-tun Distract and
Pei-tun Distract, their vacancy rate are higher. General
speaking, however, the vacancy rate of the high-rise housing in
Taichung is too high which means that many housing resources are
not used completely. As the result of regression analysis,
the research shows that the environmental characters of
influences the vacancy rates. The environmental characters which
have significant influences and present positive correlations
are「housing area」and 「distances to the nearest park」. And 「
average unit price」, 「public facilities」, 「residence use
percentage」and「housing years」 also have significant
influences but show the negative correlation. And some
environmental characters which dont influence the vacancy rates
significantly are 「the numbers of apartments」,「parking space
」,「 road width」, 「distance to the nearest market」, 「
distance to the nearest elementary school」and 「distance to the
nearest junior high school」. Therefore, when the government and
private construction investors are working on the projects, they
should consider about all of the characters mentioned above to
prevent from causing vacant housing and wasting resources.
Besides that, the factors that influence the high-rise housing
vacancy in Taichung are not only the environmental characters.
There are other kinds of factors possible, such as economy
situation, housing policies, residents characteres and so on.
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