
handle: 10722/145047
This is an empirical study on the vertical dimension of multi-story buildings – floor level and building height. The idea of price gradients in a monocentric city was borrowed to investigate floor-level premiums, which are the price paid for the vertical location (i.e., a higher floor level) of a building. Previous hedonic price studies unequivocally showed that the floor-level premium is positive, but they were silent on whether the premium is: 1) constant across different floor levels within the same building; 2) constant across different buildings given the same floor level; and 3) neutral to the height or density of a building. The knowledge of floor-level premiums is important to developers, as it can help determine the height of their development. Based on a sample of highly homogeneous housing units in buildings of varying heights, we found that the floor-level premium was not constant, but diminished as floor level increases. Moreover, there was no significant difference in the pattern of the floor-level premium between high-rise and low-rise buildings. Finally, there was a positive and significant premium for units in low-rise buildings over those in high rise ones.
Urban Studies, Geography, Planning and Development, Price gradient, Hedonic model, 720, Floor level, Housing price, Building height
Urban Studies, Geography, Planning and Development, Price gradient, Hedonic model, 720, Floor level, Housing price, Building height
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