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Paper: eres2010_392
Paper title: HOUSE PRICE, HOUSE QUALITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
Authors: De Vries, Paul
Summary: Periods of economic growth are characterised by a demand for better housing quality and increasing prices. Affordability of the demand for higher quality then becomes a problem in the subsequent period of economic stagnation. This article seeks to identify the mechanism in which quality and affordability are weighed against each other, showing that the price-quality relationship changes with the economic growth. We do this against the background of the Dutch housing market. Our analysis shows that in a high-growth economy households search for better quality of property and are prepared to pay for it. In a stagnant economy the demand for quality takes second place to the demand for affordable homes. It also appears that appreciation of quality varies in particular between the low-growth phase and the medium-growth phase. The price-quality relationship barely varies between the medium-growth and high-growth phases.
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Year of publication: 2010
Keywords: House Prices, House Quality, Housing Market, Economic growth, the Netherlands
Series: ERES:conference
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Citation: De Vries, Paul (2010). HOUSE PRICE, HOUSE QUALITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH. 17th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference in Milan, Italy, http://itc.scix.net/paper/eres2010_392
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