Under the influence of traditional culture and ideas, people of Taiwan mostly consider owning a house an important-even essential-part of life. Consequently, house price level has become a matter of concern to citizens, the society, and the government alike. Lin and Lin (2001) suggest that house price level should be determined by the supply and demand of housing. Accordingly, the present study investigates the supply (surplus houses) and demand (mortgage level) to verify their effects on house price level through the use of a vector autoregression model. The empirical results indicate that a two-way causal relationship exist between house price level and the total amount of mortgage lent by the five major banks in Taiwan, and between house price level and mortgage interest rate. Moreover, the number of surplus houses and house price level are positively correlated, and mortgage rate is the variable that influences house price levels the most.