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Sales Price (sales + price)

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Do Sales Prices Overstate Underlying House Prices in Market Downturns?

CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES, Issue 4 2002
Evidence from the Canadian House Price Crash of 199
Over the last decade there has been a mounting realization that the quality-adjusted price of properties that sell may be quite different from the quality-adjusted price of all properties (Gatzlaff & Haurin, 1998). The difference is apt to be especially marked during downturns. Dependence on price indexes based on transactions data could result in overoptimistic appraisals by mortgage lenders during the early quarters of downturns. This paper provides evidence on this issue by examining the residential real estate crash at the start of the 1990s in Canadian cities, especially Toronto. The plunge in prices estimated here for Toronto is 17%. We estimate the drop in the transactions price using MLS data, which are not quality adjusted, supplemented by Royal LePage data, which are. We estimate the drop in the price of houses in the stock using hedonic indexes based on home owners' valuations; outlier observations are cut from the sample on the basis of the DFFITS criterion. The hypothesis of equality of the drop shown by the two measures is strongly rejected, for Toronto, and is also rejected for several other cities. Résumé Au cours de la dernière décennie, on s'est progressivement rendu-compte du fait que le prix, ajusté pour la qualité, des maisons vendues peut être différent du prix, ajusté pour la qualité, des maisons en général (Gatzlaff & Haurin, 1998). La différence entre ces prix est particulièrement marquée en période de marasme. La dépendance sur des indexes de prix basés sur des données transactionnelles peut amener les prêteurs hypothécaires à faire des évaluations trop optimistes durant les premiers trimestres d'une période de marasme. L'article qui suit s'interroge sur la justesse de cette hypothèse en étudiant l'effondrement du marché immobilier au début des années 90 dans des grandes villes canadiennes, en particulier, dans la ville de Toronto. Nous estimons que la chute des prix à Toronto s'élève à 17 %. Nous évaluons la chute des prix de transactions immobilières à partir d'une banque de données MLS, qui n'est pas ajustée pour la qualité, et nous ajoutons celles-ci à d'autres données de Royal LePage, qui elles sont ajustées pour la qualité. Nous évaluons la chute des prix des maisons dans l'inventaire à l'aide d'indicateurs hédoniques basés sur les évaluations des propriétaires; les données excentrées sont enlevées de l'échantillon à partir du critère DFFITS. L'hypothèse de l'égalité des chutes de prix indiquée dans les deux mesures ne s'applique absolument pas à Toronto, ni à plusieurs autres villes. [source]

Neighborhood Effects and Compensation for Property Value Diminution

LAW & POLICY, Issue 1 2002
Jill J. McCluskey
This paper analyzes the legal issues surrounding defendants' liability for property value diminution caused by stigma from environmental contamination. The courts, law review articles, and public policy analyses are in disagreement over how to handle stigma damages. This paper argues that a reasonable risk of contamination is not required for a nuisance claim if community effects, which were caused by the contamination, are present. The authors then turn to issues regarding the level of damages and propose a methodology for measuring compensation that is based on a guaranteed sales price. This methodology is applied to the RSR smelter in Dallas, Texas. [source]

An empirical investigation of framing effects in negotiations: A study of single-family home sales

PSYCHOLOGY & MARKETING, Issue 5 2008
Carl L. Witte
This paper integrates Prospect Theory and the concept of framing in a study of consumer negotiated pricing in a real estate context. Building on previously conducted experimental designs, a field survey indicated that home sellers using sales price as a reference point display greater willingness to make concessions than those who use equity as their reference point. Further, the third-party influence of the realtor was shown to alter Prospect Theory predictions so that even equity-based sellers became concessionary. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source]

Capitalized amenity value of urban wetlands: a hedonic property price approach to urban wetlands in Perth, Western Australia,

AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL & RESOURCE ECONOMICS, Issue 4 2009
Sorada Tapsuwan
Up to 60 per cent of potable water supplied to Perth, Western Australia, is extracted from the groundwater system that lies below the northern part of the metropolitan area. Many of the urban wetlands are groundwater-dependent and excessive groundwater extraction and climate change have resulted in a decline in water levels in the wetlands. In order to inform decisions on conserving existing urban wetlands, it is beneficial to be able to estimate the economic value of the urban wetlands. Applying the Hedonic Property Price approach to value urban wetlands, we found that distance to the nearest wetland and the number of wetlands within 1.5 km of a property significantly influence house sales price. For a property that is 943 m away from the nearest wetland, which is the average distance to the wetland in this study, reducing the wetland distance by 1 m will increase the property price by AU$42.40. Similarly, the existence of an additional wetland within 1.5 km of the property will increase the sales price by AU$6976. For a randomly selected wetland, assuming a 20 ha isolated circular wetland surrounded by uniform density housing, the total sales premium to surrounding properties was estimated to be around AU$140 million (AU$40 million and AU$230 million). [source]

The Product Piracy Conflict Matrix , Finding Solutions to Prevent Product Piracy

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT, Issue 2 2009
Günther Schuh
Product and brand piracy has developed into a worldwide mass phenomenon. Affected companies are not only burdened with commercial losses such as lost sales volume and lower sales prices, but also by decreasing brand value and company reputation, lower licence revenues and, finally, costs for counteracting product piracy. Companies are gradually facing up to the challenge and taking action. Besides legal measures, an increasing number of firms are also willing to implement strategic and technical measures in their organizations or products respectively. A number of non-legal mechanisms have recently been identified, and efforts to structure these mechanisms are in progress. However, so far systematic, methodological guidance in matching mechanisms with specific products and corporate boundary conditions is basically non-existent. Focusing on this issue, the paper introduces a new TRIZ-based method to create solutions concerning product piracy. The so-called Product Piracy Conflict matrix (PPC matrix) resembles the well-established TRIZ contradiction table and has been designed to help companies create powerful protection concepts while avoiding undesired or harmful effects within their own value chains. [source]

An analysis of the neighborhood impacts of a mortgage assistance program: A spatial hedonic model

JOURNAL OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT, Issue 4 2010
Wenhua Di
Down payment or closing cost assistance is an effective program in addressing the wealth constraints of low-and moderate-income homebuyers. However, the spillover effect of such programs on the neighborhood is unknown. This paper estimates the impact of the City of Dallas Mortgage Assistance Program (MAP) on nearby home values using a hedonic model of home sales from 1990 to 2006. We define neighborhoods of 1,000 feet around each sale and estimate the average differences in sales prices between neighborhoods with various numbers of MAP properties before and after their appearance. We find that MAP properties tend to locate in neighborhoods with lower property values; however, unless a concentration of MAP properties forms, the infusion of MAP properties has little detrimental impact on neighboring property values. Moreover, low concentration of MAP properties has a modest positive impact on surrounding property values. © 2010 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. [source]

How to Set Minimum Acceptable Bids, with an Application to Real Estate Auctions

THE JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS, Issue 4 2002
R. Preston McAfee
In a general auction model with affiliated signals, common components to valuations and endogenous entry, we compute the equilibrium bidding strategies and outcomes, and derive a lower bound on the optimal reserve price. This lower bound can be computed using data on past auctions combined with information about the subsequent sales prices of unsold goods. We illustrate how to compute the lower bound using data from real estate auctions. [source]