Significance of Crowdfunding in Urban & Regional Revitalization and Real Estate Market

The contribution of a mature real estate market to urban regeneration: What are the prerequisites?

Geomodeling and Geovisualizations in Urban Planning und Real Estate Industry: The Example of Office Market Research

Modeling, quantitative analysis, and forecasting in urban planning have a tradition since the sixties when very complex models for the whole “system of the city” were developed. After a phase of criticism about these complex black box programs in the eighties the topic got in the research focus again because of the easier possibilities for visualizing the results by the means of GIS. Subsequent...

Analysis the Impact of Tax on Transfer of Real Estate and Housing on the Reduction of Housing Market Volatility in Urban Areas of Iran

Land and urban housing have been affected by speculative demands due to heterogeneity, immobility and profitability, and have led to an increase of land and housing prices. The government, with the aim of controlling the housing market volatility, can play an important role in preventing the diversion of capital from the real sector to the housing sector and its multiple shocks. In this researc...

Pricing in an illiquid real estate market

Using a repeat sales data set, this paper tests whether a single small seller can influence the selling price of their house. We find that this influence exists and that it dominates the influence of commonly-used market conditions. Since the estimated magnitude of this effect is much higher than expected, we verify the estimate using several supplementary tests. JEL: C78, D80, R21, R31

Feedback Between Real Estate and Urban Economics

This paper considers the implications of increasing land supply constraints in the United States on urban demand. First, because shifts in demand are now capitalized more into the price of land, house prices in some metropolitan areas have grown increasingly unaffordable to typical households. This might have an effect on the fundamental character of such cities. Second, the effect of home owne...