Maintenance and improvements affect house values and thus the observed pecuniary return. Whether due to lack of liquidity or the presence of strategic incentives, some borrowers have a higher probability of default and this could lead to lower maintenance and investment in the property. We test...

Search theory shows that real property prices and marketing durations are simultaneously determined and positively related. Yet, empirical studies find positive, negative, and insignificant parameter estimates on the time-on-the-market (TOM) variable in price models. Using a dataset well suited...

A seller sets the list price based upon their ex-ante perception of the trade-off between marketing duration versus transaction price, which depends on the liquidity of the property and the depth of the market. As such, list prices reflect property, market, and seller characteristics. In...

Existing price indices are based on real estate sales. This approach encounters problems when (1) sales are infrequent or (2) when these differ systematically from the overall market (selection bias). Relative to the number of properties sold on the market, a much greater number of properties...

House price regression residuals often display spatial dependence but historically mortgage models, which employ house prices, assume independence and use only the own borrower/loan characteristics. This manuscript uses a spatial probit model to investigate spatial dependence among the...

Expectations of housing prices play an important role in real estate research. Despite their importance, obtaining a reasonable proxy for such expectations is a challenge. The existing literature on mortgage research either does not include housing expectation proxies in empirical models, or...

Expectations in housing prices play an important role in real estate research. Despite its importance, obtaining a reasonable proxy for such expectation is a challenge. The existing literature in mortgage research either does not include proxies of housing expectations in empirical models or...

Recent empirical studies on asset pricing have generally concluded that the CAPM cannot explain the cross-sectional returns on common stocks. If stock markets are not in equilibrium, what percentage of common stocks are mispriced? Answers to this question have broad implications for market...

Using the well-known Harrison and Rubinfeld (1978) hedonicpricing data, this manuscript demonstrates the substantialbenefits obtained by modeling the spatial dependence of theerrors. Specifically, the estimated errors on the spatialautogregression fell by 44% relative to OLS. The...

<title>Abstract</title> Spatial filtering in various forms has become a popular way to address spatial dependence in statistical models (Griffith, 2003; Tiefelsdorf & Griffith, 2007). However, spatial filtering faces computational challenges for large <italic>n</italic> as the current method requires order of n-super-3 operations....