This paper reports on the results of a land market assessment conducted in the Chennai Metropolitan Area in India. It provides detailed spatially disaggregated information on land use, population, and housing and land values for the metropolitan area. The assessment was a joint effort of the...

Most analyses of the determinants of land prices in urban areas make inferences from data on housing transactions which combine payments for land and long-lived improvements. In contrast, this study utilizes a large sample of market transactions on unimproved land in a major US metropolitan area...