A hedonic pricing model is estimated to analyse the impact of railways on house prices in terms of distance to railway station, frequency of railway services and distance to the railway line. Correcting for a wide range of other determinants of house prices we find that dwellings very close to a...

Beside the specific object attributes, location is the fundamental determinant for real estate. But how important is location within a city? Contrary to popular belief our results suggest that this parameter explains only a small proportion of price variation, whereas object attributes are...