HouSI: Heuristic for delimitation of housing submarkets and price homogeneous areas

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 59-69

  Royuela, V ^a   Duque, Juan C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Hedonic prices; Housing submarket segmentation; Spatial clustering

Indexed keywords

BARCELONA; CHOW TEST; CONSTRAINED CLUSTERING; HEDONIC MODEL; HEDONIC PRICES; HOUSING MARKETS; IDENTIFICATION PROCESS; POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS; PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS; SPATIAL CLUSTERING; SUBMARKETS;

COMMERCE;

HOUSING;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HEDONIC ANALYSIS; HEURISTICS; HOUSING MARKET; PRICE DYNAMICS;

BARCELONA [CATALONIA]; CATALONIA; SPAIN;

EID: 84870392009     PISSN: 01989715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2012.04.005     Document Type: Article

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