Local hedonic house-price modelling for urban planners: Advantages of using local regression techniques

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 664-682

  Crespo, Ricardo ^a   Grêt Regamey, Adrienne ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

GWR; Hedonic modelling; T surfaces; Urban modelling

Indexed keywords

HEDONIC ANALYSIS; HOUSING MARKET; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; URBAN PLANNING; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

SWITZERLAND; ZURICH [SWITZERLAND]; ZURICH [ZURICH (ADS)];

EID: 84881051495     PISSN: 02658135     EISSN: 14723417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/b38093     Document Type: Article

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