There is evidence that the implementation of the planning system creates 'scarcity rents' for land in different uses by acting as a constraint on land supply. This paper provides, for 1984, estimates of the effects this has on house prices, on residential densities and on access to owner...

A house represents not only a bundle of structural characteristics but also a set of location specific characteristics. Adding locational coordinates and site area to other house characteristics makes it possible to estimate a land rent surface as well as the hedonic prices attached to local...

Dick Netzer, a leading public finance economist specializing in state and local issues and urban government, brings together in this comprehensive volume essays by top scholars connecting the property tax with land use. They explore the idea that the property tax is used as a partial substitute...

This paper reports on a model of the sequential migration behaviour of some 76 000 Scottish and Welsh students, from their domicile location to the location of their higher education and on to their employment location. A logit model methodology is employed to analyse the choice of the location...

This chapter examines the hedonic analysis of housing markets. These techniques have been widely applied in studies of the demand for housing attributes and environmental amenities. The chapter discusses the theoretical foundation of hedonic analysis, the use of hedonic estimates of demand for...