...Hassanudin Mohd Thas Thaker; Mohamed Ariff Purpose This study aims to explore the issue of residential price in Malaysia from a supply-side perspective. The views are directly obtained from medium and small-scale developers in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach We used the semi-structured...

...Lucie Severová; Roman Svoboda; Lenka Kopecká Purpose The purpose of this paper is to express the development of market price of farmland in the CR and to describe causes and effects of these changes in the price on the ownership of land in the country. Design/methodology/approach Primarily...

...Anthony Owusu‐Ansah Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine if temporal aggregation matters in the construction of house price indices and to test the accuracy of alternative index construction methods. Design/methodology/approach Five index construction models based on the hedonic...

...Nelson Chan; Fong‐yao Chen Purpose This paper attempts to empirically examine the property taxes and fees for residential development to determine whether they have a significant impact on house prices in Sydney and Taipei. Design/methodology/approach Property charges and taxes in Sydney...

... of the authors. Racial discrimination Prices Telephone On 31 August, 1841, the acting administrator of the Colony, A.R. Johnston, issues regulations regarding the Bazaar for the guidance of the Chief Magistrate and the newly appointed Land Officer. These provided for lots for “those person who...

...Sally Sims; Peter Dent; Gina Ennis‐Reynolds Purpose The purpose of this paper is to establish whether or not asking price can provide a reliable indication of the impact of a negative externality when transaction data are scarce. Design/methodology/approach Until recently, transaction data...

...Ling‐Hin Li Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine land price changes in Beijing 1993‐2004. Examination of attributes of land price changes seeks to illustrate whether this market is overshadowed by government regulations and controls leading to immature development and uncertainties...

...I‐Chun Tsai; Ming‐Chi Chen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show an indication that the asymmetric volatility between house price movement may account for the defensiveness of the housing market. Design/methodology/approach First the UK nation‐wide house price data from the last quarter...

...Mats Wilhelmsson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to construct a hedonic property price index in the segmented housing market. Design/methodology/approach Three different research questions are investigated. The first considers how to identify separate local housing markets, with the use...

...Joe T.Y. Wong; Eddie C.M. Hui Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the behavior of buyers and sellers in making housing decision and analyses the mechanisms of the seller‐buyer interaction affecting house sale prices. Design/methodology/approach The research methodology relies...

...Lawrence Chin; Gang‐Zhi Fan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the nature of Singapore's private housing market with respect to its price movement using time series models. Design/methodology/approach This paper analyses the price dynamics in the Singapore private housing market...

... such as view enjoyment and security concerns. This paper attempts to study the implicit value of a balcony, the green effects of balconies on the prices of residential properties, and the effect of security concerns on balconies situated on lower floors. A sample of transactions in a private housing estate...

...Mike Fletcher; Jean Mangan; Emily Raeburn In published work on hedonic house price estimation it is not uncommon to examine some of the conditions required for the estimators to have desirable properties such as minimum variance and unbiasedness, in particular spatial autocorrelation. However...

...Tak Yun Joe Wong; Chi Man Eddie Hui; William Seabrooke Investigates primarily the role of interest rates on housing prices from expectation perspectives. It quantifies the impact of interest rates on price movements from 1981 to 2001 in Hong Kong. The principal finding is that housing prices...

...Marius Thériault; François Des Rosiers; Paul Villeneuve; Yan Kestens This paper presents a procedure for considering interactions of neighbourhood quality and property specifics within hedonic models of housing price. It handles interactions between geographical factors and the marginal...

...   Table III Average price by country and region The following information is contained in the report: England and Wales The average price increased by 9.46 per cent from £97,616 in 1999, to£106,850 for the same period in 2000 (excluding sales under £10,000 and over...