This paper has two interconnected goals. The first is to provide a simple method for measuring the variance in house prices which can not be attributed to the heterogeneous nature of real estate goods. The second goal is to show the strong statistical significance of this residual volatility in...

This paper aims to provide a simple method for measuring the price dispersion in the housing market controlling for the differences in attributes or qualities of the residential real estate units. Precisely, the paper proposes an extended hedonic pricing model which incorporates standard market...