This paper follows the recent literature on real estate price prediction and proposes to take advantage of machine learning techniques to better explain which variables are more important in describing the real estate market evolution. We apply the random forest algorithm on London real estate...

This article examines the spatially varying effect of age on single-family house (SFH) prices. Age has been shown to be a key driver for house depreciation and is usually associated with a negative price effect. In practice, however, there exist deviations from this behavior which are referred...

This paper investigates if the imbalances in the Baltic residential real estate markets that were mounting up prior the crisis of 2008–2009 could have been detected in real time. It develops an empirical framework comprised of various empirical techniques for assessing housing price...

Die Bevölkerung in Deutschland wird in den nächsten Jahrzehnten deutlich kleiner. Landkreise und Städte im Ruhrgebiet und im Osten Deutschlands schrumpfen schon jetzt, während Metropolen wie München und Hamburg noch kräftig zulegen. Immobilieninvestoren konzentrieren sich daher vornehmlich...

Die Besteuerung von selbstgenutztem und vermietetem Wohneigentum folgt in Deutschland sehr unterschiedlichen Regeln. Während selbstgenutzte Immobilien wie ein Konsumgut behandelt werden, gelten vermietete Immobilien als Investitionsgut. Bedingt durch diese Ungleichbehandlung variiert die...

Die Wohnimmobilienpreise in Deutschland sind in den vergangenen Jahren kräftig gestiegen, vor allem in den Metropolen München und Berlin. Diese Entwicklung weckt die Befürchtung, dass sich in Deutschland, ähnlich wie in Spanien oder dem Vereinigten Königreich, eine spekulative...

It is systemic to expound how that the speculative behaviors are driven by the number of a series housing policies promulgated by China's government for the real estate market. The market is resulted in full of speculative behaviors, and has been booming since the beginning of this decade, even...

This study investigated the users' assessment of affordable housing in developing cities among the residents of Ibadan urban centre. Affordable housing entails users having access to quality housing at reasonable prices, obtaining it, maintaining the ability to meet other basic costs of living...

The study examined the relationships between residents' socioeconomic characteristics and the housing quality standard in Abeokuta, Nigeria. Systematic sampling technique was used to select 198 household heads for questionnaire administration. The findings revealed that socioeconomic factors are...