An empirical investigation of variations in real-estate marketing language over a market cycle

Housing, Theory and Society

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 178-189

  Robertson, Kirsten ^a   Doig, Antony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Language; New Zealand; Property listings; Property market conditions

Indexed keywords

ADVERTISING; BARGAINING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HOUSING MARKET; LANGUAGE; MARKET CONDITIONS; PROPERTY MARKET;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 77952630874     PISSN: 14036096     EISSN: 16512278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14036090903159994     Document Type: Article

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