{"id":444,"date":"2020-04-27T18:19:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T10:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/?p=444"},"modified":"2025-12-24T20:27:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T12:27:40","slug":"information-barriers-housing-searches-and-residential-satisfaction-a-study-of-mainland-china-students-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gssinst.org\/irer\/2020\/04\/27\/information-barriers-housing-searches-and-residential-satisfaction-a-study-of-mainland-china-students-in-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Information Barriers, Housing Searches, and Residential Satisfaction: A Study of Mainland China Students in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"444\" class=\"elementor elementor-444\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1f203060 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1f203060\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7c754d9c\" data-id=\"7c754d9c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6f33a416 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6f33a416\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\"><div class=\"article_label\">Article<\/div><p class=\"article_title\">Information Barriers, Housing Searches, and Residential Satisfaction: A Study of Mainland China Students in Hong Kong<\/p><div><p class=\"title_label_large\">Author<\/p><p class=\"title_label_large\">Start Page \/ End Page<\/p><p class=\"title_label\">Volume<\/p><p class=\"title_label\">Issue Number<\/p><p class=\"title_label\">Year<\/p><p class=\"title_label_large\">Publication<\/p><\/div><div><p><!-- Author \/ StartEndPage \/ Volume \/ IssueNumber \/ Year \/ Publication --><\/p><p class=\"title_text_large\">Zheng Chang<\/p><p class=\"title_text_large\">343 \/ 365<\/p><p class=\"title_text\">21<\/p><p class=\"title_text\">3<\/p><p class=\"title_text\">2018<\/p><p class=\"title_text_large\">International Real Estate Review<\/p><\/div><div class=\"empty\">\u00a0<\/div><p class=\"abstract_label\">Abstract<\/p><p><!-- Abstract Content --><br \/>There are few empirical studies that study the effects of different housing search methods on housing outcomes. This paper addresses this research gap by surveying students from Mainland China in Hong Kong to measure residential satisfaction in the use of three different housing search strategies: social media, housing agents, and personal social networks (friends and relatives). We use a structural equation model (SEM) to analyze the results and find that students who use social networks to find houses have a significantly higher level of residential satisfaction than those who use social media as a search method. However, using a housing agent does not significantly affect residential satisfaction, although both the number of houses viewed and time spent during a search have small effects on increasing residential satisfaction.<br \/><br \/><!-- PDF DownloadLink --><\/p><p class=\"download\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gssinst.org\/irer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/v21n3-information-barriers-housing-searches-and-residential-satisfaction.pdf\"><strong>View PDF -https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53383\/100265<\/strong><\/a><\/p><div class=\"empty\">\u00a0<\/div><p class=\"abstract_label\">Keywords<\/p><p><!-- Keywords --><\/p><p class=\"keywords\">Housing Search, Residential Satisfaction, Structural Equation Model<\/p><p><a class=\"backpage\">Back to Previous Page<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"title_label_large\">Author<\/p>\n<p class=\"title_label_large\">Start Page \/ End Page<\/p>\n<p class=\"title_label\">Volume<\/p>\n<p class=\"title_label\">Issue Number<\/p>\n<p class=\"title_label\">Year<\/p>\n<p class=\"title_label_large\">Publication<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<!-- Author \/ StartEndPage \/ Volume \/ IssueNumber \/ Year \/ Publication --><\/p>\n<p class=\"title_text_large\">Zheng Chang<\/p>\n<p class=\"title_text_large\"> 343 \/ 365<\/p>\n<p class=\"title_text\">21<\/p>\n<p class=\"title_text\">4<\/p>\n<p class=\"title_text\">2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"title_text_large\">International Real Estate Review<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"abstract_label mt16\">Keywords<\/p>\n<p class=\"keywords\">Housing Search, Residential Satisfaction, Structural Equation Model<\/p>\n<p class=\"downloadLine\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.um.edu.mo\/fba\/irer\/papers\/past\/vol21n3_pdf\/03.pdf\">Download Entire Article.<img src=\"https:\/\/i.ibb.co\/m8rCXNQ\/download-pdf-large.png\" alt=\"download-pdf-large\" border=\"0\"> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"article-template.php","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gssinst.org\/irer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gssinst.org\/irer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gssinst.org\/irer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gssinst.org\/irer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gssinst.org\/irer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gssinst.org\/irer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4777,"href":"https:\/\/www.gssinst.org\/irer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/4777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gssinst.org\/irer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gssinst.org\/irer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gssinst.org\/irer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}