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Article: A Conjoint Analysis of Buyers’ Preferences for Residential Property Author: Abdul Hamid Mar Iman, Fu Yek Pieng, Christopher Gan Start Page: 73 Abstract: This study evaluates the preferences of middle-high income earners for newly designed high-cost residential property attributes in their purchase decision, by using the conjoint method, whereby the buyers’ ‘trade-offs’ of different product attributes are measured. The fractional factorial design is used to create eighteen sets of product profiles based on a combination of the six most important attributes that determine the purchase decision of buyers. The preference rating of the respondents is then decomposed to yield part-worth utility for each attribute level. A regression analysis shows that the most pertinent attributes of high-cost residential properties trade-off by the respondents, are type of property, design and features, price, built-up area, location, and reputation of the developer. Together, these attribute explain about 74% of the buyers’ expressed utility of the product purchased. By using a hold-out sample of respondents, a conjoint analysis has predicted the buyers’ expressed utility with a reasonable level of accuracy. Keywords Conjoint method; Residential, Consumer behaviour; Preference; Utility
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