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Due to the tremendously high cost of MRT construction and local and central governments currently tightening their budgets, raising funds for the construction of future Taipei MRT routes is a critical issue. MRT joint development (JD) buildings combine with MRT stations to become integrated structures. With the characteristic of “arriving at a station is equivalent to arriving home”, MRT JD projects have been hot sellers and have received great interest and a warm welcome from construction companies and residents in the Greater Taipei area as soon as they are launched. The projects have not only boosted real estate market development but also created a triple win situation for local residents, developers, and the pubic sector. In the beginning, the investors in MRT JD projects raised funds by themselves. Later, a credit system featuring financing assistance and a trust mechanism was set up by Taipei City government, accelerating the completion of the JD projects. This paper expands research on the feasibility of a new operation mode for MRT JD real estate development, securitization that would offer an increase of financing channels, a more efficient use of city assets. It will also explain securitization consolidates MRT construction funds and will help contribute to the reorganization of DORTS as well.
References for this paper are cases performed in the nation and abroad. It includes an analysis of the potential influence securitization might have on real estate valuations. Then, based on the current overall economic situation and a financial analysis of MRT JD lots, a framework for the securitization of MRT joint development real estate is constructed. Furthermore, for the evaluation of the securitization of MRT JD real estate, the author uses two modes to examine interest rate evolution, Vasicek and Hull-White, for simulating future trends of rental income and asset value.
With the property rights of MRT JD lots belonging to each individual lot, based on the method mentioned above, the author suggests selling the integral assets through “Real Estate Investment Trusts” so as to reduce management manpower and make financial operations more flexible, making Taipei MRT JD projects serve as a model for a securitized real estate environment constructed by the government. It is also suggested that the “Real Estate Investment Trusts” mode be applied to JD projects constructed along future MRT routes to allow responsible agencies, landowners, and investors to manage the projects jointly; that is, based on a rental mode, all parties entrust professional administrators, set up a management system with the idea of separating landowners and management rights so as to improve financial management and allow each owner to have discretion to settle all assets and receive benefits from them.
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