Park accessibility impacts housing prices in Seoul

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Park, Jin Han ^a   Lee, Dong Kun ^a,b   Park, Chan ^c   Kim, Ho Gul ^a   Jung, Tae Yong ^d   Kim, Songyi ^e  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c University of Seoul   (South Korea)

^d Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^e Korea Culture and Tourism Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Ecosystem services; Hedonic price methods (HPM); Non market value; Property price; Valuation

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; HEDONIC ANALYSIS; HOUSING MARKET; NEIGHBORHOOD; PARK DESIGN; VALUATION; WALKING;

SEOUL [SEOUL (ADS)]; SEOUL [SOUTH KOREA]; SOUTH KOREA;

EUCLIDIA;

EID: 85013472927     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su9020185     Document Type: Article

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