Are new entrants to the residential property market informationally disadvantaged?

Journal of Property Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 57-70

  Watkins, Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hedonic modeling; House prices; Information; Residential property markets; Search

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013338224     PISSN: 09599916     EISSN: 14664453     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/095999198368509     Document Type: Article

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