Construction and updating of property price index series: The case of segmented markets in Stockholm

Property Management

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 119-137

  Wilhelmsson, Mats ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Keywords Property; Market segmentation; Prices; Regression analysis; Seasonal index; Sweden

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EID: 70049083621     PISSN: 02637472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02637470910946426     Document Type: Article

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