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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Home Sales"”.
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Markers of a real estate agent's value-add
… under-researched in marketing. Nearly 90% of home sales involve listing agents, who directly influence three of the four Ps of marketing by negotiating prices, promoting the property through media and open houses, and enhancing the product via renovations, and staging. Recent lawsuits against …
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The Economic Impacts of Forest Timber Methods in Washington State: a Hedonic Approach
… In this research, I employ a data set of 170,141 home sales across eleven counties of western Washington to estimate the impact that even-age and uneven-age forest cutting methods have on the local real-estate market.<strong> </strong> I estimate two sets of hedonic fixed effect regression models …
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Toward an Understanding of the Effect of Market Share on Median Home Sale Price
… study analyzes the market share of the top 10 home builders in nine Metropolitan Statistical Areas, along with fourteen other independent variables, to find a statistical relationship with median home sales price. Through a stepwise regression of the independent variables it is determined that …
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Panel data analyses of urban economics and housing markets
… and Urban Economics literature with panel data- home sales and house price relationship, efficiency of housing market and commercial property taxation. For the first part, I examine the strong positive correlation that exists between the volume of housing sales and housing prices. I develop a …
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Tax policy, housing markets, and elderly homeowners
… of tax policy on housing markets and elderly homeowners. Chapter One examines the potential lock-in effect of capital gains taxation on home sales, using the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 (TRA97) as a policy instrument. Before 1997, homeowners were subject to capital gains taxation when they …
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Studying How Changes in Consumer Sentiment Impact the Stock Markets and the Housing Markets
… housing market variables such as changes in home sales and home prices. Given the recent financial market turmoil that stemmed from the U.S. housing market debacle, this chapter is timely. Using widely cited housing indices, I explore regional differences in the U.S. housing market and how …
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Mortgage Default in Southern California: Examining Distressed Borrower's Decision Making and Market Contagion
… the conditions under which strategic behavior of home sales is most likely to occur. Data from Los Angeles County was analyzed from 2007 to 2010 for every closed sale, then coded into three possible sales outcomes: 1) Organic 2) Short Sale 3) Real Estate Owned (REO). A multinomial probit model was …
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Essays on Real Estate, Flood Risk, and Political Sentiment
… maps serve two functions: they signal risk to homeowners and mandate insurance take-up. How these information and risk transfer mechanisms affect homeowner relocation decisions remains unknown. Combining real estate transaction data and historical FEMA flood maps, I exploit geographic and …
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Essays on housing economics and real estate finance
… of the mortgage supply resulted in a decline in home sales, and increased the share of renter-occupied units. Moreover, households in the lowest income groups are most affected. The finding suggests that recent regulatory changes in mortgage lending may have unintended consequences, leading to …
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Modern Econometric Methods for the Analysis of Housing Markets
… availability of richer, high-dimensional, home sales data-sets, as well as spatially geocoded data, allows for the use of new econometric and computational methods to explore novel research questions. This dissertation consists of three separate research papers which aim to leverage this …