Are Minorities or Minority Neighborhoods More Likely to Get Low Appraisals?

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 301-315

  Lacour Little, Michael ^a   Green, Richard K ^b  

^a CitiMortgage Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Appraisal; Discrimination; Mortgage

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032373552     PISSN: 08955638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007727716513     Document Type: Article

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