In the present article determinants of residential real estate prices are empirically estimated. The study is based on actually recorded, anonymous transactions data collected for the city of Muenster from 1999 to 2009. The observations include single-family houses, semi-detached houses,...

Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain were all hit by the economic downturn in the course of the financial crisis and have been struggling with national debt crises and recession. A problem common to all of these countries is the collapse of national demand. Foreign trade might seem a logical way...