... their willingness to buy sustainable products. Nevertheless, the demand for sustainable housing has not developed as rapidly as other areas. Against this background, the present study examines the understanding of potential homebuyers and the psychological factors that influence their purchase intention...

...Mats Wilhelmsson; Abukar Warsame Purpose The primary aim of this research is to examine the effects of the Renovation, Conversion, and Extension (ROT) tax deduction for renovations on the scope and quality of renovations and its subsequent impact on house prices across various Swedish...

... turning point of the Italian residential real estate market, the authors apply the honeycomb cycle developed by Janssen et al. (1994) based on the joint analysis of house prices and the number of transactions. To this end, the authors use a unique historical reconstruction of house price levels...

... Licensed re-use rights only SEM Housing Aggressive bidding Bid strategies English auctions Auctions have always been an important price mechanism, especially for heterogeneous products and investment goods, such as real estate. In recent years, several papers have studied different...

... dynamics over this period, with a special attention to the turning points in the French housing policy. Design/methodology/approach For this purpose, the authors implement a hedonic model, called stratified time dummy variable, using the Box–Cox transformation as a functional form. Findings...

...Arvydas Jadevicius; Peter van Gool Purpose This study is a practice undertaking examining three main concerns that currently dominate Dutch housing market debate: how long is the cycle, will the current house price inflation continue and is housing market in a bubble. With national house prices...

...Michael White; Dimitrios Papastamos Purpose This paper aims to examine the housing market in Greece after the Global Financial Crisis focussing on regional analysis and urban markets in Athens and Thessaloniki. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses a data set of over 70,750 property...

... Housing Out-of-sample bootstrap The improvement in the field of the statistical modelling of hedonic pricing was enormous during the past three decades. Primarily driven by advances in the field of regression analysis, statistical inference and especially computational speed, the accuracy...

... more deprived areas where larger banks are often not willing to lend (HM Treasury press release, 24 July 2013). Mortgage lending Housing Open data Financial exclusion © Authors. Published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited. This work is published under the Creative Commons...

... of European Real Estate Research Asset valuation Bubbles Europe Herding behaviour House prices Housing Prices Article Type: 2013 Awards for Excellence From: Journal of European Real Estate Research, Volume 7, Issue 1 The following article was selected for this year’s...

...Christian Hott Purpose A comparison of fundamental house prices with actual prices indicates that house prices fluctuate more than fundamentally justified, a fact difficult to explain with standard rational agent models. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate to what extent herding behaviour...

... and technological changes dramatically alter the concepts of Smart Home. Consequently, real estate decisions are going to be affected by the Smart Home development. Inspired by research in the field of user centered design and future lifestyles, the authors redefine the housing design to increase the acceptance...

...Oliver Bischoff; Wolfgang Maennig Purpose Between 1997 and 2005, the German government provided owner‐occupied subsidies to fund new private housing construction and stock purchases to increase owner‐occupied housing. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of these subsidies on total...

...Abukar Warsame; Mats Wilhelmsson; Lena Borg Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent that interest subsidies have impacted on the total production of Swedish single‐ and multifamily houses. It also intends to examine whether tenure neutrality provision of interest subsidy...

...Marta Widłak; Emilia Tomczyk Purpose The aim of this paper is to present estimation results of hedonic price models as well as housing price indices for the Warsaw secondary market. Design/methodology/approach Three direct methods of constructing a hedonic price index and four indices...

...Kath Hulse; Colin Jones; Hal Pawson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to re‐appraise the role of the private renting in the housing system drawing on a review of public policies toward the sector in six countries. It re‐examines the adequacy of explanations about tenurial “competition...

...Michael Ball; Phil Allmendinger; Cathy Hughes Purpose There is a growing international interest in the impact of regulatory controls on the supply of housing. The UK has a particularly restrictive planning regime and a detailed and uncertain process of development control linked to it. The purpose...

...Paloma Taltavull; Stanley McGreal Purpose The purpose of this paper is to estimate the expectations component contained in the asking price of residential property, in order to assess whether expectation plays a relevant role in house price appreciation. The paper tests the role of housing...