Measuring the impact of flooding on UK house prices: A new framework for small sample problems

Property Management

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 344-359

  Lamond, Jessica ^a   Proverbs, David ^a   Antwi, Adarkwah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Floods; Market value; Modelling; Residential property; Sales turnover; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547921264     PISSN: 02637472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02637470710775194     Document Type: Article

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