The purpose of this paper is to develop constant quality price indices for three categories of real estate: apartment building, vacant land, and condominiums for the city of Geneva, Switzerland. We use both the hedonic and repeat sales models to estimate the price level and, in turn, the rate of...

This paper develops constant-quality price indices for three categories of real estate-apartment buildings, vacant land, and condominiums--for the city of Geneva, Switzerland. We use both the hedonic and repeat sales models to estimate the price level and, in turn, the rate of price change. The...

The aim of this paper is to gain a better understanding of the characteristics related to the environment of single-family houses in the greater Geneva area. An Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) methodology is applied to the data collected by means of a questionnaire which was sent to 850...

An important objective in the construction of real estate price indices is the creation of sub-indices by region or by neighbourhood. Environmental changes such as the improvement in the accessibility of a neighbourhood will result in different price changes across neighbourhoods. It is...