Predicting urban land prices: A comparison of four approaches

International Journal of Strategic Property Management

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 217-236

  Hannonen, Marko ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Flexibility; Hedonic model; Land price; Prediction; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 57349192933     PISSN: 1648715X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/1648-715X.2008.12.217-236     Document Type: Article

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