The Effect of Listing Price Strategy on Transaction Selling Prices

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 237-255

  Beracha, Eli ^a   Seiler, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

List pricing strategies; Residential real estate; Time on the market

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877103444     PISSN: 08955638     EISSN: 1573045X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11146-013-9424-1     Document Type: Article

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