It is accepted in both popular culture and the academic literature that ‘cold and damp’ housing leads to poor health outcomes for occupants. Many solutions have been proposed to remedy this from voluntary healthy home checklists, green building ratings tools to mandatory government...

New Zealand has one of the highest asthma rates in the world, frequently linked to the quality of housing. A confirmed causal factor for asthma is the dust mite allergen, with environmental factors such as temperature and relative humidity (RH) linked to the proliferation of dust mites. Whilst...

Purpose – Automated valuation models (AVMs) are statistical asset pricing models omnipresent in residential real estate markets, where they inform property tax assessment, mortgage underwriting and marketing. Use of these asset pricing models outside of residential real estate is rare. The...

Stigma has been identified as perceived risks in subsiding the value of properties which are actually or potentially defective. Legal claims are often made under the assumption that remediation itself invokes a form of stigma. This study aims to determine whether this purported post-remediation...

Although electronic educational tools have become popular, few studies have considered their effectiveness. Some studies have investigated the effectiveness of the tools’ “game” aspects. We investigated students’ perceptions of the classroom tools that they used and their perceived...

Increasingly universities use educational tools within their learning systems. It is assumed that the provision of these tools would stimulate self-regulated learning. There are studies which show students are different regarding tool use but they compared tool use regarding age and gender. We...

Emerging educational technologies have changed the form of face to face classes and given greater flexibility to learning. Some university classes have adopted a fully virtual or blended format which has consequently changed students’ and lecturers’ responsibilities. The benefit of blended...

Preliminary studies on green multi-tenanted office buildings in the United States, Europe and Australia have widely reported the presence of price premiums for certified green or energy-efficient buildings. When researchers look at sales and rental premiums, it is generally concluded that both...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore and quantify the impact of geographically defined school zones on house prices in New Zealand. Design/methodology/approach – This paper develops a series of hedonic pricing models to analyse 10,000 house sales transactions over a 21‐year...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to quantify leaky building stigma associated with monolithic claddings, explore how this stigma has likely been amplified by media coverage, estimate the number of affected properties and quantify the collective house price impact on homeowners of...