Spatial differentiation patterns of housing price and housing price-to-income ratio in China´s cities

Based on the basic data of the housing price and housing price-to-income ratio in 286 prefecture-level cities in 2009, this paper analyzes the spatial differentiation pattern, overall trend, spatial heterogeneity and correlation between the absolute housing price and relative housing price. The results show that: 1) there is significant spatial differentiation in terms of China´s urban housing price, and the distribution presentsdual patterns of spatial clustering differentiation (the three southeast coast urban agglomerationsversusinland cities) and administrative level differentiation (between provincial capital and prefecture-level cities). 2) The overall differentiation trend and spatial heterogeneity of absolute housing price are higher than that of the relative housing price.