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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 |
| Download paper: | /pdfs/eres2010_392.content.pps |
| 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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