Using 1994-1995 microeconomic data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR), this paper estimates cost and profit X-efficiency levels in the residential real estate brokerage market using traditional and Bayesian stochastic frontier models. We find that firms err more from failure to...

Landlords fact unique concerns in maximizing profits when they accept subsidized as well as unsubsidized tenants. Subsidized tenants tend to reduce overall tenant quality and to impose higher operating costs. By accepting subsidies, landlords may also subject themselves to periodic site...

Decoding the Distribution of House Price & Income Mix Ratio (HPIMR) to Calculate the Proportionate Investments required for the Housing Demand as per Affordability in India at the Country LevelAs per my paper published https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3693316 on the House...

Fifty-two years ago, Congress enacted a one-of-a-kind civil rights directive. It requires every federal agency—and state and local grantees by extension—to take affirmative steps to undo segregation. In 2020, this overlooked Fair Housing Act provision—the “affirmatively furthering fair...

African-Americans and Hispanics in Syracuse, New York, have lower homeownership rates than whites with comparable incomes, despite the availability of affordable housing. Using ethnographic methods, the study team examined home purchase by Hispanics and African-Americans as a multiphase process....

Second-hand housing markets are to-day the regulations of local systems lf land and housing prices. They disclose the appreciations by the citizens of the urban qualities of quarters. The choices of these citizens are mostly determined by non-economic factors : the financial constraint, which...

Environmental, climatic and economic human influences contribute to the problem of water scarcity in arid and semi-arid areas of the world, particularly in the less developed countries. This has impeded economic development in these regions. Thus, the call is for better methodological approaches...

This research investigates models for engaging private sector investors and developers in financing or delivering social and affordable housing, across different market segments and tenures in Australia and internationally. It also identifies key existing and potential players, and financial,...

This research investigates the Australian rental sector during the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic and considers priorities for governments; tenant experiences and reflections on the effectiveness of assistance and interventions; changing tenant aspirations; and the priorities for emerging...