Durban University of Technology DUT students scammed. Bogus landlords use supermarket stores to lure students (prospective tenants) and social media (see ‘Con artists play on vulnerable-Accommodation scarcity and internet anonymity aid. more

Durban University of Technology DUT students scammed. Bogus landlords use supermarket stores to lure students (prospective tenants) and social media (see ‘Con artists play on vulnerable-Accommodation scarcity and internet anonymity aid heartless fraudsters’ Daily News February 17, 2015). Student Representative Councils (SRCs) and tertiary institutions need to play a more pro-active role in finding accommodation and protecting students.

The sale and lease real estate markets have cyclical developments which are often dissimilar in the short term and then take coincident trends in longer horizons. The imbalance in the relationship between prices and income is normally. more

The sale and lease real estate markets have cyclical developments which are often dissimilar in the

short term and then take coincident trends in longer horizons. The imbalance in the relationship between prices

and income is normally used by economists to determine any housing bubbles . However, the structural

limitations require caution in the use of the ratio between prices and rents as an indicator of an over - or under -

evaluation in the real estate market. The present work has investigated the relationships between selling and

rental prices in the Italian housing market, trying to define the actual cause-effect relationships in quantitative

terms too. It was used a multivariate autoregressive (VAR) model to interpret the mutual influences between

the two sectors and the macroeconomic fundamentals. The results show that housing prices can influence rents,

but not the opposite. The Italian housing demand, even the one for investment. does not consider rent as a

proxy for the corresponding dividend. The work must be attributed equally to the three authors.