Economic sustainability considerations in a local housing market with post-bubble hindsight

Given the pivotal role of the housing bubble in the subsequent credit crunch, the following question may be raised: could the global financial crisis have been moderated if prude property valuations had been made at the time of issuing bank loans, and if governments and institutions had been concerned about raising the quality of market...

Urban housing patterns in a tide of change: Spatial structure and residential property values in Budapest in a comparative perspective

Comparing spatial features of urban housing markets: Recent evidence of submarket formation in metropolitan Helsinki and Amsterdam

Comparing spatial features of urban housing markets: Recent evidence of submarket formation in metropolitan Helsinki and Amsterdam II

Sign value, topophilia, and the locational component in property prices

Measurement of housing preferences: A comparison of research activity in the Netherlands and Finland

Increased affluence and individual lifestyles have widely spread across western countries in recent decades. We expect this development to coincide with the use of more qualitative and more disaggregated research methods (the so called Mode 2 research methods) because these tools enable coping with a growing diversity of housing preferences....

Presence of water in residential environments - value for money?

The role of water in the locational bundle of residential value and choice determinants is multiple. Relevant attributes pertain to water quality, proximity and length of water frontage, view, size of water body, coastal development costs, and costs caused by flooding. They also pertain to different types of water: the sea, lake, river and so on...

The appraisal of the water-'shed'