"Die Grundsteuer ist Gegenstand langjähriger Reformdiskussionen. Ob sie sich darüber hinaus auch in den Immobilienpreisen kapitalisiert, wurde bislang nur unzureichend für den deutschen Immobilienmarkt untersucht, wohingegen für den US-amerikanischen Immobilienmarkt die...

From 2014 until present, housing prices in Germany have been rising faster than consumer prices in all quarters except one, raising concerns about an excessive over-heating of the housing market. To assess the vulnerability of the German housing market to a future realignment of prices or even a...

Urban Green Space (UGS) such as parks and forests provide a wide range of environmental and recreational benefits. One objective in the conservation efforts of UGS is to analyse the benefits associated with UGS in order to make them more visible and to provide support for landscape planning....

Real estate prices are central to a range of themes that are, e.g., relevant for monetary policy, community development, environmental valuation, and economic planning more generally. This paper developes a real estate index based on apartment offer prices on the post code level for Germany,...