The Modified Comparable Sales Method as the Basis for a Property Tax Valuations System and its Relationship and Comparison to Spatially Autoregressive Valuation Models

Mass Appraisal Methods: An International Perspective for Property Valuers

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 49-69

  Borst, Richard A ^a   McCluskey, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comparable sales method of valuation (CSM); Empirical results; Geographically weighted regression; Importance of property tax in USA; Modified comparable sales method (MCSM); Relationship of GWR to CSM; Response surface methods; Weight matrix models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874581410     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444301021.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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