The right to redevelop a residential property can carry a significant positive premium. Although the existing literature has examined how this redevelopment premium is affected by the inherent characteristics of a residential structure, comparatively little research has focussed on how land use...

We study the effects of a large-scale upzoning on house prices and redevelopment premiums in Auckland, New Zealand. Upzoning significantly increases the redevelopment premium, but the overall effect on house prices depends on the economic potential for site redevelopment, with underdeveloped...

Loss aversion is a widely-recognized cognitive bias that can affect house price determination. Existing empirical approaches to quantify its effects require hedonic methods to predict what prices would be in the absence of loss aversion. However, conventional methods for making this...

We present a novel approach to the estimation of hedonic imputation (HI) price indices for real estate markets using a new Mallows model averaging (MMA) estimator that is robust to spatial dependence. The spatial MMA (SMMA) method is explicitly designed to minimize the quadratic forecast loss of...