International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis: Volume 6 Issue 3

Predicting house price via gene expression programming

Ehsan Shekarian, Alireza Fallahpour

The housing sector is one of the main sources of economic growth in both developing and developed countries. Although many methods for modeling house prices have been proposed…

Formal housing finance outreach and the urban poor in India

Kiran Sandhu

Access to housing remains high on the agenda of the governments in the developing countries. One of the responses to low income housing access is by making the housing finance…

Ripple effects of house prices: considering spatial correlations in geography and demography

Le Ma, Chunlu Liu

Studies into ripple effects have previously focused on the interconnections between house price movements across cities over space and time. These interconnections were widely…

Realizing the dream of owning a home: A preliminary study of house purchase financing options for low‐income Saudis

Robert A. Opoku, Alhassan G. Abdul‐Muhmin

This study aims to investigate the house purchase behavior of low‐income Saudis regarding the sources of financing they wish to have access to, their preferences for alternative…

Demographic changes and housing demands by scenarios with ASFRs

Jonghyun Lim, Joo Hyung Lee

This paper's objective is to provide improvement plans that take into account problems in the housing sector, as well as low fertility and demographic problems caused by aging, by…

Rent indices, Oslo 1970‐2008

Are Oust

Rents are both a very important cost variable in the housing market, having large welfare and distributional implication, and one of the most important variables in house price…

Introduction from the editor

Richard G. Reed