Table of contents - Special Issue: Modelling Housing Markets
Residential property price indices: fit for purpose?
Richard Grover, Christine GroverResidential property price indices (RPPI) are widely used to monitor trends. This article aims to pose the question as to whether the choice of methodology is significant or…
House price indexes and cyclical behavior
Marcelo Bianconi, Joe A. YoshinoThe purpose of this paper is to use data on new apartment offerings in the municipality of Sao Paulo, Brazil to illustrate its main claim that the hedonic direct method using time…
Household attributes and the future demand for retirement housing
Michael Ball, Anupam NandaAgeing populations provoke the question of how much bespoke housing should be provided for the elderly. Older people are generally reluctant to move but as they age health…
The importance of unobserved attributes in hedonic house price models
Liv OslandHedonic models are commonly used in housing markets studies to obtain quantitative measures of various implicit prices. The use of panel data in other fields of research has…
Hedonic price model: defining neighbourhoods with Thiessen polygons
Marko KryvobokovThe purpose of the paper is to verify whether the version of neighbourhoods created from the lowest geographical level improve a predictive accuracy of hedonic model in comparison…
Comparing alternative house price indices: evidence from asking prices in Malta
Joseph Falzon, David LanzonThe paper aims to describe, construct, and compare alternative price indices for real estate in Malta over the period 1980‐2010.
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- Dr Richard Reed