Model Land Supply for Land Bank to House Application

Web-GIS tool for the management of rural land markets - Application to the Land Bank of Galicia (NWSpain)

Land abandonment and stagnation of rural markets in the last few years have become one of the main concerns of rural administrations. The use of Web and GIS (Geographic Information System) technologies can help to mitigate the effects of these problems. This paper proposes a novel Web-GIS tool with spatial capabilities for the dynamization of rural land markets by encouraging the transfer of la...

Application of Multi Objective land Allocation technique for land use Planning Approach Case study: Hamadan County

From the late  twentieth century, human kind has found out that if he wants to obtain cost efficiently and continuous utilization of lands, it is better to execute this in a planned framework named management plan. Such idea is became  as an introduction to monitor the land or utilization of lands. Monitoring lands means contribution of an optimized space for land utilization with realization o...

Housing Price, Land Supply and Revenue from Land Sales

In a recen t study, Peng and Wheaton empirically exam ine the effect of restricti ve land supply on Hong Kong house prices. However, we argue that the impact of the supply of new land by the Hong Kong government is not as important as they maintain in accounting for the volatile house prices in Hong Kong. We show that there is no causal relation ship between land supply and housing prices. Our ...

House prices , bank balance sheets , and bank credit supply ∗

We examine the effect of house price appreciation on bank loan portfolios during the 1996—2006 period. While most previous research in this area has concentrated on loan demand effects, we evaluate how house prices affect a bank’s credit supply. Controlling for possible simultaneity between house prices and bank loan portfolio growth, we find that banks affected by greater house price appreciat...

Compactness for Regionalization and its Application in Land-Use Planning