Explaining the Pace of Foreclosed Home Sales during the US Foreclosure Crisis: Evidence from Atlanta

Housing Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1100-1123

  Lee, Yun Sang ^a   Immergluck, Dan ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

foreclosure; Housing finance; housing market; housing policy; lender owned properties; vacant properties

Indexed keywords

HOUSING FINANCE; HOUSING MANAGEMENT; HOUSING POLICY; NEIGHBORHOOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROPERTY MARKET;

ATLANTA; GEORGIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84869158326     PISSN: 02673037     EISSN: 14661810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.728576     Document Type: Article

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