Segmenting the Korean housing market using multiple discriminant analysis

The business environment of the Korean housing industry has changed recently from a supplier's market to a buyer's. Establishing and implementing proper marketing strategies has increasingly become an important part of the managerial process. This research attempts to offer a characteristics profile and a forecasting model that classify the housing purchase consumers into three groups: a single-family housing purchase group, an apartment housing purchase group, and a non-purchase group. These groups can be classified and predicted by using the discriminant function: a linear combination of demographic, socio-economic, and residential characteristics. Findings in this research can provide valuable information for future efforts in identifying distinct target segments of the Korean housing market.