Huang Tuofu, Li Lin, Zhu Xiang
Accepted: 2025-07-17
Taking the State-Level Xiangjiang New Area, a typical case of deepening reform in China, as the research area, using rental housing data from household surveys and POI network data, combined with the geographically weighted regression model (GWR), this article con-structs a rental intensity index for exploring the spatial distribution characteristics of rental housing in study area, the factors affecting spatial structure and it’s spatial heterogeneity are analyzed. It is found that: 1) The rental intensity generally decays from the core area to the peri-pheral area, and at the same time has obvious directionality to the landscape, transportation nodes, university cities and industrial parks; 2) There is obvious spatial heterogeneity in the factors affecting rental intensity. University facilities, landscape parks, housing quality, park distance, and rental factors have a low impact within the second ring, and the further away from the central city district the greater the intensity. The opposite is true for subway and high school facilities, where the intensity of impact is higher in the core area and decreases with distance; 3) The rental intensity and factor intensity show non-consistency in terms of location condi-tions, reflecting different trade-offs among heterogeneous groups of tenants in terms of location maturity, living quality and employment commuting. In the context of “sale and rental develop-ing simultaneously”, in order to promote the development of the rental market, it is recommen-ded to dynamically adjust the supply on demand, focusing on increasing the effective housing supply in high-density demand areas such as the core area, supporting the development of di-versified market entities and large-scale professional long-term rental institutions, refining the rental security policy, implement differentiated and graded subsidies for migrant workers, graduates, multi-child families and other groups, guiding tenants to flow to areas with suffi-cient supply, easing the pressure on the core area, accelerating digital governance, building an information platform covering housing verification, contract filing, and credit evaluation to im-prove supervision and service efficiency. The findings of this article can guide the construction of rental housing and the spatial layout of related public service facilities, and provide refer-ence for promoting the balanced development of sale and rent in new urban areas.