Amenity values versus land constraints: The spatial effects of natural landscape features on housing values

Land Economics

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 61-78

  Irwin, Elena G ^a   Jeanty, P Wilner ^a   Partridge, Mark D ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMENITY; HEDONIC ANALYSIS; HOUSING MARKET; LANDSCAPE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPEN SPACE; PRICE DYNAMICS;

EID: 84891796447     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.90.1.61     Document Type: Article

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