The paper examines the implicit assumptions made in hedonic studies of urban house prices. It is apparent that the technique can only be applied to city wide cross section analysis when sample data is capable of meaningful disaggregation. Previous uses of the technique are examined and it is...

The paper presents by using regionally disaggregated data for the British Economic Planning Regions some questions on the usefulness of current macro-oriented approaches to the modelling of house price inflation. The paper indicates that such models should be restricted in their use to national...

Redlining in the housing market occurs when building societies explicitly delineate in some way sections of cities where they will not usually grant mortgages. This paper considers redlining as part of the broader question of credit rationing, and derives a number of alternative possible...

This paper examines the 'global competition' aspects of housing policies and the implications of an emerging 'flexible' economic order for housing markets in advanced economies. An overview is given of movements in international patterns of growth and trade, including a review of the effects on...

In this paper, newspaper adverts are used to investigate the effects of the deregulation of private renting in the UK. The paper contrasts newspaper adverts in 1988 (before deregulation took force) with 1992 for the market furnished sectors of Glasgow and Edinburgh. The methodological issues of...

This paper addresses three questions. How unequal is access to urban employment and the wellbeing associated with it? What is the monetary value consumers place on access? How does the inequality of access correspond to the geographical pattern of unemployment? A novel approach is developed...

Real estate, encompassing housing, land and commercial property, is a key driver of the urban economy-in terms of economic development, the distribution of opportunities across space and through the evolution of the local built environment. Certain aspects of real estate research are not...

This paper gives an account of an attempt to create a new area deprivation index for Scotland based mainly upon non-census indicators and calibrated at the spatial level of the postcode sector. This is the first such index to be produced in the UK. The paper explains why there is currently more...