Housing attributes and Hong Kong real estate prices: A quantile regression analysis

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 359-366

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

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Housing attributes; quantile regression; real estate prices

Indexed keywords

HOUSING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ACCURATE PREDICTION; CONSTANT COEFFICIENTS; DIFFERENT CLASS; HOUSING ATTRIBUTES; LEAST SQUARE; ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES; QUANTILE REGRESSION; REAL ESTATE PRICES;

COSTS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HOUSING MARKET; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MORTGAGE LENDING; PREDICTION; PRICE DETERMINATION; PRICE DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

EID: 84860903516     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: 1466433X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2012.677542     Document Type: Article

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