Local particularities or distance gradient: What matters most in the case of the Viennese apartment market?

Journal of European Real Estate Research

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 163-185

  Herath, Shanaka ^a   Maier, Gunther ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Austria; Hedonic price; Local particularity; Prices; Rent gradient; Rental value; Spatial econometrics; Vienna

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880149313     PISSN: 17539269     EISSN: 17539277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JERER-10-2011-0022     Document Type: Article

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