Modeling Hong Kong real estate prices

Journal of Housing and the Built Environment

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 359-368

  Choy, Lennon H T ^a   Mak, Stephen W K ^b   Ho, Winky K O ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Feng shui; Hedonic price model; Nonlinear effect

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEDONIC ANALYSIS; HOUSING MARKET; MODELING; PRICE DETERMINATION; PROPERTY MARKET; RAILWAY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONG KONG;

EID: 35648948341     PISSN: 15664910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10901-007-9089-2     Document Type: Article

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