Measuring and Explaining House Price Developments
Measuring and Explaining House Price Developments

Author: Paul de Vries

Publisher: IOS Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1607506653

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This study discusses ways of measuring and explaining the development of house prices. The goal of the research underpinning this dissertation was to develop a methodological framework for studying these developments. This framework relates, first, to correcting for changes in the composition of dwellings and, second, to the fundamentals of the price development. Using the weighted repeat sales method and sale price appraisal ratio (SPAR) method, house price indexes were developed for the Netherlands. Both the Dutch land registry office and Statistics Netherlands publish the SPAR based house price index monthly. To explain and predict changes in prices, a house price model is presented. As suggested in literature on western housing markets, the Dutch house price developments can be explained by demand-oriented short-run term variables and a long-run term variable.

Handbook on Residential Property Price Indices
Handbook on Residential Property Price Indices

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2013-04-22

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 9264197184

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This Handbook provides, for the first time, comprehensive guidelines for the compilation of Residential Property Price Indexes and explains in depth the methods and best practices used to calculate an RPPI.

Measures for Community and Neighborhood Research
Measures for Community and Neighborhood Research

Author: Mary L. Ohmer

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2018-07-19

Total Pages: 720

ISBN-13: 1544333102

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Measures for Community and Neighborhood Research, by Mary L. Ohmer, Claudia Coulton, Darcy A. Freedman, Joanne L. Sobeck, and Jaime Booth, is the first book of its kind to compile measures focused on communities and neighborhoods in one accessible resource. Organized into two main sections, the first provides the rationale, structure and purpose, and analysis of methodological issues, along with a conceptual and theoretical framework; the second section contains 10 chapters that synthesize, analyze, and describe measures for community and neighborhood research, with tables that summarize highlighted measures. The book will get readers thinking about which aspects of the neighborhood may be most important to measure in different research designs and also help researchers, practitioners, funders, and others more closely examine the impact of their work in communities and neighborhoods.

Applying Research to Policy Issues in Distressed Housing Markets: Data-Driven Decision Making
Applying Research to Policy Issues in Distressed Housing Markets: Data-Driven Decision Making

Author: Firschein, Joseph

Publisher: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Published: 2015-06-01

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13:

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A compilation of research published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland on housing markets experiencing foreclosure and/or a large number of vacant properties which sheds light on a wide range of housing markets. It provides possible policy solutions applicable to both regional and national policy discussions.

Construction and Application of Property Price Indices
Construction and Application of Property Price Indices

Author: Anthony Owusu-Ansah

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-07-11

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1351591002

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The importance of house prices to households, real estate developers, banks and policy-makers cannot be overemphasised. House price changes affect consumer spending and business investment patterns, which in turn affect the wider macro economy and the entire business cycle. Measuring and understanding house prices is therefore essential to a functioning economy, but researchers continue to disagree on the best methodological approach for constructing real estate indices. This book argues the need for more accurate house price indices, outlines the various methods used to construct indices and discusses the existing house price indices around the globe. It shows how the raw data of property transactions can be prepared for the purpose of constructing indices, discusses various applications of property price indices and empirically demonstrates how the index numbers can be used to model the supply of new houses and to estimate the price elasticity of supply. Essential reading for economists, real estate professionals and researchers, and policy-makers.

Interpreting Economic and Social Data
Interpreting Economic and Social Data

Author: Othmar W. Winkler

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-08-12

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 3540687211

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"Interpreting Economic and Social Data" aims at rehabilitating the descriptive function of socio-economic statistics, bridging the gap between today's statistical theory on one hand, and econometric and mathematical models of society on the other. It does this by offering a deeper understanding of data and methods with surprising insights, the result of the author's six decades of teaching, consulting and involvement in statistical surveys. The author challenges many preconceptions about aggregation, time series, index numbers, frequency distributions, regression analysis and probability, nudging statistical theory in a different direction. "Interpreting Economic and Social Data" also links statistics with other quantitative fields like accounting and geography. This book is aimed at students and professors in business, economics demographic and social science courses, and in general, at users of socio-economic data, requiring only an acquaintance with elementary statistical theory.