A constant-quality price index for resale public housing flats in Singapore

Urban Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 2705-2729

  Ong, Seow Eng ^a   Ho, Kim Hin David ^a   Lim, Chai Hoon ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b CapitaLand Commercial Limited   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOUSING MARKET; INDEX METHOD; PRICE DYNAMICS; SOCIAL HOUSING;

SINGAPORE;

EID: 0346905327     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0042098032000146858     Document Type: Article

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