This paper analyzes the factors that affect house pricing in Istanbul. As a large metropolitan area, Istanbul has many sub-markets with unique natural and historical settings surrounded by the sea. These amenities are reflected in its housing prices and create sharp differences between the...

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The purpose of this paper is to examine the spatial distribution of housing prices at the metropolitan and at the district level of Istanbul. At the metropolitan level, the most important factors which affect housing prices are sub-market, floor area and sea view. At the district level, housing...

This paper investigates the cycle of housing movement preferences in Istanbul by focusing on three basic characteristics of residential areas: (a) The housing prices (b) The life quality (c) The Socio-economic structure of the residents. The aim is to estimate filtering process in Istanbul...

This study examines housing price differences in urban areas having different life quality levels. To display changing housing price levels in those urban parts is defined as the first aim of the study. In relation with this, to put forth whether there is always linear and positive correlation...

Hedonic price models have been broadly employed to explore the factors of housing prices changes. Especially market-wide hedonic models have tended to provide preliminary investigation of spatial distribution of housing prices. This paper seeks to explain the effectiveness of different segmented...

This paper assesses the economic value of green infrastructure using a contingent valuation questionnaire to establish willingness to pay for specific urban greening investments. The paper presents analysis of 510 face-to-face interviews with residents, commuters, employees and other users in...

Although there are numerous good reasons for real estate analysts to construct housing submarkets, there is little clarity about how this might best be done in practice. The existing literature offers a variety of techniques based on principal components analysis, cluster analysis and other...

There is considerable evidence, exemplified by the work of Onder et al (2004) that explores the effects of the 1999 Marmara event, that earthquake risk has distorted spatial and temporal house price patterns in the Istanbul metropolitan area. Last yearís earthquake activity in Eastern Turkey,...