Questions tagged [housing]
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Has an increase in housing supply in popular cities including Amsterdam led to an increase in house prices?
Common economic thinking dictates that an increase in price should lead to an increase in supply, and that an increase in supply should then lead to a decrease in price. According to Maarten van Poelgeest, former alderman of Amsterdam, the opposite…
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Correlation between salary level and housing prices in a town
Is there a measurable correlation in a town between salary level and housing prices?
Or, to put it differently: is it politically meaningful to drive up salaries by new investments if the result is unaffordable housing?
UPDATE: I do not want to edit…
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How much do real-estate prices correlate with apartment rental prices?
I've been trying to find sources that mention this, and have tried to find graphs of data so I can compare myself, but I haven't been able to. Do real-estate sale prices correlate positively, negatively, or not at all with apartment rental prices? A…
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Why are New Zealand houses so badly insulated?
New Zealand is relatively new country.
It essentially was founded in 1840 in a contract between the native Maori people and the British Government.
For some reason a large chunk of the housing stock in New Zealand is badly insulated and drafty and…
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The Effect of Two income Households on Housing Prices
In the book The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents Are Going Broke) by Warren and her daughter, she states the following in chapter 1:
If two-income families had saved the second paycheck, they would
have built a different kind of safety…
user10249
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Why do people not all live right on top of each other in monocentric city model?
I'm supposed to learn to derive the monocentric city model from these assumptions: everyone has the same preferences, same income, same work location (Central Business District, single point with infinitely small area) and same transportation per…
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Floor space per occupant distribution - changes over time
Where could I find statistics on the floor space per occupant as a function of wealth (or income) - preferably for the UK but any country with a reasonably high population density would do.
The closest I found so far is the following chart from this…
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How much does urban and small town decay raise housing costs elsewhere?
A considerable number of (parts of) cities and towns have experienced decay over the last few decades. Due to a combination of safety, lack of services, and job market changes people have fled these regions. Abandoned homes and neighborhoods are…
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