Housing affordability: A conceptual overview for house price index

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue , 2011, Pages 346-353

  Suhaida, M S ^b   Tawil, N M ^a   Hamzah, N ^a   Che Ani, A I ^a   Basri, H ^a   Yuzainee, M Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b Universiti Tenaga Nasional   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Housing affordability; Measures; Price income ratio

Indexed keywords

HOUSE PRICES; HOUSING AFFORDABILITY; MALAYSIA; MEASURES; PRICE-INCOME RATIO;

HOUSES;

COSTS;

EID: 84855642485     PISSN: 18777058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2011.11.176     Document Type: Conference Paper

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