Purpose This paper aims to examine tenure choice in the Swedish housing market with explicit consideration of households’ credit constraints in combination with age and ethnic background. Design/methodology/approach Observations of some 940,000 households were used to analyse the Stockholm...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that general‐ and special‐purpose properties have to be dealt with differently by the public sector. Design/methodology/approach – Application of standard economic theory concerning pricing of properties and infrastructure. The issues are...

Real estate market data often contain outliers in the observations. Since outliers have a large influence on least squares estimates, robust regression methods have been recommended for this situation. Compares the performance of least squares and least median of squares, a robust method, in the...

Purpose – This explorative case study focuses on property investment decision making from a behavioural perspective at the very microlevel. The study contributes to an understanding of how property investors manage the decision‐making process, including organizational aspects, property...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent that interest subsidies have impacted on the total production of Swedish single‐ and multifamily houses. It also intends to examine whether tenure neutrality provision of interest subsidy that subsidy policy advocates was...

Purpose – The aim of this study is to investigate why housing prices differ between regions, and to estimate the speed‐of‐adjustment. Design/methodology/approach – A variety of factors explains the differences in the prices of single‐family houses. Changes in disposable income over...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of Swedish rent controls on observed vacancy rates for rental housing. Design/methodology/approach – Housing vacancy rates are unevenly distributed among Swedish municipalities. In large expansive municipalities, such as Malmö,...

Purpose This study aims to examine the impact of housing construction on single-family housing values and the implications for urban development. Design/methodology/approach To achieve this objective, the author used the difference-in-difference methodology to examine the effect of multifamily...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate the determinants of the retail space rent in Shanghai. Design/methodology/approach – Hedonic model and spatial regression models are used in the paper. The problem of spatial autocorrelation is tested by Moran's I statistics, and the root...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the determinants of aggregate fund flows to both equity and hybrid mutual funds. The authors test three hypotheses that help explaining the relationship between mutual fund flows and stock market returns, namely; the feedback-trader hypothesis,...