Macroeconomic factors that influenced Malaysia housing price movement / Nur Syaqirah Amni Mohamed Sabree

This study is conduct with the purpose of to determine the effect of macroeconomic factors on housing price movement in Malaysia. This study will use the housing price change as its dependent variable and Stock Market Index (SMI), Interest Rate (IR), Inflation Rate (IR), Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as well as Unemployment Rate (I-JR) as its independent variables. This research uses the secondary data that obtained from 4 websites which FRED, World Bank Data, Macro Trend Data and Department of Statistic Malaysia. This study is based fully on Malaysia which is the researcher's country. The data collected from the period of 1995 until 2020. Hence, to collect the data researcher used panel data and run it through E-views from version 1 1. In addition, there are some methodologies are applied to evaluate the significance and also the relationship between the variables such as descriptive analysis, classical assumption test, correlation test as well as the regression analysis. From the overall result, there is a significant for stock market index (SMI), interest rate (IR) and gross domestic product (GDP) meanwhile it is insignificant for inflation rate (IR) as well as unemployment rate(I-JR).