Residential mobility: The impacts of web-based information on the search process and spatial housing choice patterns

Urban Geography

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 641-655

  Palm, Risa ^a   Danis, Michelle A ^b,c  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c U S CENSUS BUREAU   (United States)

Author keywords

Housing search; Internet; Residential mobility

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY;

EID: 0035739262     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.22.7.641     Document Type: Article

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